Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, People, Places, Video on Jun 29th, 2011 No Comments »
Watts Towers is an incredible group of structures in the Watts district of Los Angeles, California built by brick and tile layer, Simon Rodia over a period of 33 years from 1921 to 1954. I visited the Towers in the mid 1960′s with my parents but haven’t been back since. I think a trip there [...]
Posted in Apple, Architecture, People, Places, Video on Jun 8th, 2011 2 Comments »
Steve Jobs presents a new Apple campus to the Cupertino City Council. This is a wonderful example of the genius of Steve Jobs and how he’s attempting to keep Apple paying taxes in its home town of Cupertino, California. We pay taxes, the city ought to provide free wifi. Great one Steve.
Posted in Apple, Architecture, iPhone Photography, New York, Social Software on May 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Lunch in New York with some friends. Took this walking from Grand Central diagonally across town toward Chelsea. I’m enjoying the Instagram filters even though stuff like this isn’t part of my “regular” (whatever that means) photographic process. I’m also noticing that my S90 isn’t coming out as much because it’s fun and easy to [...]
Posted in Architecture, iPhone Photography, Places on Jan 20th, 2011 No Comments »
This is the entrance roof at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It reminded me of a Japanese screen. The colors are wonderful.
Posted in Adventure, Aerial Photography, Architecture, Photographers, Places on Dec 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
Professional photographer Joe McNally gets to the top of the beacon mast on top of the Empire State Building to get a shot.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Dec 22nd, 2010 7 Comments »
New York City. I don’t know if this building was standing pre-9/11 or was built later but it reminds me of the old Word Trade Center buildings in its outer skin.
Posted in Architecture, Events, Places on Dec 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
New York City. A group of us went into New York yesterday and one person wanted to see ground zero. I must say that besides helping a friend move out from Battery Park City right after 9/11 I’d not been to the site. it’s a fascinating thing to see with an incredible amount of construction [...]
Posted in Architecture, New York, Reflections on Sep 14th, 2010 2 Comments »
New York City. Glass covered buildings make all sorts of reflection images possible, including the merging of two different buildings. Modern cities are full of details like this and once discovered they make it difficult to walk around without stopping every few feet to check out a shot. Another image shot this summer with rented [...]
Posted in Architecture, Canon Powershot S90, New York on Aug 15th, 2010 2 Comments »
New York City. Walking along 42nd St. between Grand Central and Times Square the people watching is incredible. Being the (un) street photographer that I am, I looked up instead of across and found the scene a bit less crowded, in fact, quite desolate.
Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Getty Center Abstractions on Jun 22nd, 2010 4 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Every time I get to the Getty I’m astounded by the architecture. The architect Richard Meier put incredible lines, windows, angles, curves, and textures in almost every view. You look up, down, across and through in almost any place you can get to and there are things of interest to see. Looking [...]
Posted in Architecture, Events, Photographers, Places on Mar 15th, 2010 No Comments »
The Big Picture: Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010 Spectacular architecture under construction, beautifully documented.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. I’m pretty taken with the rotunda of the entrance pavilion of the Getty Center. There’s something about the lines, the light, and the shapes. Can’t help myself.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jan 12th, 2010 4 Comments »
New York City. This image is from a trip to New York I made with my friend Gary over the Holidays. If memory serves, Madison Square Garden is a block to my right. Gary and I spent a good twenty minutes photographing the flags in front of this building. The wind was just right to [...]
Posted in Architecture, People on Dec 25th, 2009 2 Comments »
Almost every town in New England has one of these traditional Congregational churches and while they look great in daylight they also look great lit up at night. The coldness of New England winter and the traditional white exterior offset the warmth of candle-lit windows. I’m not a Christian nor do I belong to this [...]
Posted in Architecture, Photographers, Places on Nov 17th, 2009 No Comments »
My flickr contact Michael Greenwood did a great job framing this historic staircase. Two female staff look bored as they gaze over the grand white marble stairway entrance to the Museo de la Revolución in Havana. Those steps look pretty now but in 1957 they were flowing with the blood of students who died trying [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Oct 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
New York City. A quick shot looking up into the fog before we went inside Grand Central and boarded the train home. Fog is beautiful and had I had more time in the city I think I could have made some nice images of these big buildings with their lights in fog. I’ll call this [...]
Posted in Architecture, Photographers on Sep 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
Visual Acoustics, the Modernism of Julius Shulman Watch the movie trailer. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Architecture, Events, Photographers, Places on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
NY Times Lens: The World, as of 9/10/01 This is a nice collection of images of the World Trade Center prior to 9-11.
Posted in Architecture, Events, People on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
David Darling setting up for a concert in Battery Park, July 19, 2001. Original post here.
Posted in Architecture, Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Aug 23rd, 2009 8 Comments »
I’m experimenting with an application called PTLens which corrects pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective. In this case, the 24mm end of the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L causes distortion in the perspective on buildings left and right of center. Before: After: The image would need to be cropped to remove the black areas left [...]
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