Night and Day

Four photos of midtown Manhattan shot from the same balcony at different times: two photos during the day in a snowstorm, two photos about fifteen minutes after sunset.

I might add that at both times it was damn cold. The evening I took the night shots it was around fifteen degrees with at least a thirty mile an hour wind. Couple that with being on a forty fifth floor balcony in the tallest building in the near vicinity and you are guaranteed to be windburned and have snot frozen all over your face. Ah...good times!

All were shot hand held on my D300 with the 16-85 VR DX. I braced myself against the walls/ railings to steady the night shots.

The Highline

ProductSuperiorJenn, zerodaze, and I were lucky enough to be able to take a walk through the just completed first section of the High Line park in the meat packing district just two days after it officially opened to the public. I say lucky because we were greeted with an absence of screaming people formed into block long lines, an almost empty park, a spectacular sky, and just enough time to finish walking through before it poured.

Katie & Steve's Wedding

So this post is tied to a sunset photo I did previously (Sunset & Silhouette 2). Taken at same location and night, these are photos from Matt's sister's wedding. I'm not a wedding photog (or a professional one at that) but I really liked these. I thought they were really nice moments which I was lucky enough to be around for, and I thought the softness and the atmosphere of the evening was nicely captured. The 2nd one is a little grainy but I was sitting far away and trying to zoom in with no flash –so I'm still pretty happy with it. I still think it was a nice moment to capture.

Bride pinning boutonniere for her father


A nice quiet moment during the night

Cruise liner in the Hudson

Thought this photo would be a good change of pace as it was shot not with my DSLR, but with my Blackberry Curve camera phone. Yes, those spots up top are likely pocket lint but it's one of my favorite pictures because it captures what's fun for me about photography- sometimes you do everything right and it turns out all wrong. Sometimes you look out the window on a dreary day and take a photo with your crappy cameraphone and it turns out all right. You never can tell.

Towers

The series of architectural post have inspired me to break out of my shell and finally post on Le Clique. Here's a shot I took a couple of years ago on the west side of Manhattan.

NYC light experiment

John's last post below this inspired me (and refreshed my memory since I'd forgotten) to dig up this shot I took years ago. It was when I'd just gotten a new camera and was eager to see how it did with night time shots etc. So I ended up experimenting at night out the apartment window of Kips Bay Towers.

Three "patterned" buildings