Posted in Architecture, Shadows and reflections on Oct 11th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. The grid of the outer skin of a glass office tower coupled with the warping of some of its glass is reminiscent of David Hockney’s assembled photographs taken at various angles of a single scene. There are enough glass towers with surfaces like this in New York, not to mention multiple angles [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Sep 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. While downtown to see Doubt I strolled down the block to see Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, home of the LA Philharmonic. The night lighting on the stainless steel skin of this amazing building was striking but there still wasn’t a lot of light for handheld photography. I shot anyway [...]
Posted in Architecture, Ideas, Places on Sep 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Last night my mother and I went to see Doubt at the Ahmanson Theater at the LA Music Center. She can’t drive at night or on the freeway anymore (she’s 91) so she hadn’t been to the Music Center in a while.
We got there early and the entire plaza that houses the [...]
Posted in Architecture, Ideas, Places, Shadows and reflections on Sep 6th, 2006 1 Comment »
New York City. No sooner is a new glass tower finished than another goes up right next door. Each of these structures is an enormous undertaking financially, socially, structurally, logistically, environmentally and yet they are springing up like wildflowers in cities like New York all over the world. I’d love to be a fly on [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places, Shadows and reflections on Sep 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
New York City. This is the building that’s right behind me here and you can see the other building reflected on the right side of this one.
An interesting aspect of large glass buildings in tight surroundings is how they interact visually and spatially with the buildings around them as well as the sky. In order [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places, Shadows and reflections on Sep 5th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. A wide angle lens allowed me to pull in not only the glass tower thrusting toward the cloudscape but also the buildings directly around me in the tight canyon that is a side street in Manhattan.
Another view of the same image.
This was shot in the same series as the one above [...]
Posted in Architecture on Aug 23rd, 2006 4 Comments »
New York City. This was not the best time to be shooting this spectacular building (mid-afternoon) but here we were in Madison Square Park (tripods not allowed in the park by the way) and there it was with sun almost directly above.
I put the 135 on for the next shot and got a hair and [...]
Posted in Architecture on Aug 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. This is a view across the Hudson River to office buildings in Jersey City that have sprung up as Manhattan pricing has risen. I’m standing in Rockefeller Park at the west end of Chambers Street, the northern boundary of a series of spectacular parks that together form a strip of commercial development [...]
Posted in Architecture, Shadows and reflections on Aug 8th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. Walking down Lexington we came upon this faceted building. It was crying out to be photographed and I obliged.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Aug 8th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. We were walking to meet a friend for dinner and as we passed under these two behemoths this picture was crying out to be taken.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Aug 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. The round main courtyard entryway is one of the most interesting pieces of the various structures making up the Getty Center. This is a reflection back into the main courtyard.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Aug 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. I’m outside a Getty Gallery on a walkway similar to the one the people across the way are on. They’re looking southwest toward west LA and the Pacific.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Aug 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angles, California. Standing on a lawn looking up at a gallery space (top) and a covered cafe terrace (bottom) at the Getty Center. The images I took from above were taken from the walkway at the top right of this image.
Standing on a walkway looking down at a cafe terrace, a retaining wall, a [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art and Design, Places on Aug 1st, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. The Getty Center is one of my favorite places to visit while in Los Angeles; the architecture is spectacular and the feeling of spaciousness, even with other people around is wonderful. This is one of the main courtyards between gallery buildings.
Posted in Architecture, Flowers and Trees, Places on Aug 1st, 2006 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. I love the Getty Center. It’s one of my all time favorite destinations, in LA or almost anywhere else. The architecture is wonderful but so is the Central Garden created by artist Robert Irwin.
On this visit, because my mother could not walk into the garden area and it was too narrow to [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jul 19th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. An interesting aspect of large glass buildings is how they interact visually and spatially with the buildings around them, be they other glass buildings or older buildings with stone or brick facades. The most photogenic glass buildings are glazed in a way that distorts, warps, or colors the reflected image in unexpected [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jul 19th, 2006 4 Comments »
New York City. As the sun went down behind New Jersey, an apartment building facing west lit up. I couldn’t shoot it from my vantage point so I bounced off the reflective north-facing windows of the office tower across the way. Because of the grid of windows and panes on that building, the result was [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jul 18th, 2006 2 Comments »
New York City. The wall of buildings on Central Park West rises precipitously over the treetops of Central Park in late afternoon sun.
Sun bathers in one of the “meadows” in the center of Central Park.
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jul 17th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. Looking down on a set of rooftops in the mid-town west side of Manhattan. The telephoto lens I took this with compresses the scene which helps accentuate the angular orderliness of the skylights, the greenhouse roof, the chimney flange, the metal shed roof, the stainless chimney, the terra cotta roofs and brick [...]
Posted in Architecture, Places on Jul 17th, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. Late afternoon sun on a fifty story glass tower in midtown Manhattan. These windows face west toward the Hudson River and New Jersey and while I’m sure the summer sun is roasting what’s behind the glass, the view has to be one of the best in the city. Just far enough inland [...]
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