But as I was picking up the camera and noticing I'd left it on, aiming at nothing, I clicked the button to test the battery. Later, I see it looks like this:
Which amuses me. I upload it and send to the flickr group ROTHKOesque.
January 10, 2008
Intentional and accidental.
Writing before dawn, I keep my eye on the Manhattan skyline. I've been watching the effect of the sun on those reflective buildings for months. I've taken a lot of photographs of the same buildings, but — like Claude Monet looking at the Rouen cathedral — I keep thinking now, the light makes it different. When it does, I pick up the camera and go out on the terrace and take some more pictures of the same thing. This is what moved me today:
But as I was picking up the camera and noticing I'd left it on, aiming at nothing, I clicked the button to test the battery. Later, I see it looks like this:
Which amuses me. I upload it and send to the flickr group ROTHKOesque.
But as I was picking up the camera and noticing I'd left it on, aiming at nothing, I clicked the button to test the battery. Later, I see it looks like this:
Which amuses me. I upload it and send to the flickr group ROTHKOesque.
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Hey, that was me on the ferry arriving at Pier 11 for work this morning! I did wave...
It's quite a captivating shade of blue, and it frames the skyline well - it's almost like a bluescreen, you could cut it and drop almost any kind of sky into it.
I knew Claude Monet; Claude Monet was a friend of mine; ...
No pantry moth webs in the corners! Sign of a compulsive cleaner.
-nice angles on the 2cd pic, the top pic should have been panned a little more to the left and cut off some of the smaller structures on the far right for better balance and less 'weight' then panned up just a tad to expose a bit more water, but what the heck
Hi, mr. bingley.
When Rothko was a boy in Eastern Europe, the Nazis executed Jews and left them in shallow mass graves in the woods near his home.
I think Rothko denied having stared down that horror; clearly, though, he saw.
(I would have cropped out the entire right side of the lower pic...to deify its lower left glow.)
I am a practical kind of guy. I look at the ceiling, and all those different angles and cuts and think I'm glad I'm not painting it or creating it.
Is the water ever completely still? I suppose not since it's likely tidal and a river and all. A mirror-like reflection with morning light would be stunning.
Stark. Even hotel rooms have pictures on walls. Brooklyn monasticism.
Show me da Monet.
I'm jealous that you can take a better photo by accident than I can on purpose.
The skyline shot is fantastic. Wonderful saturation in the color. My first impulse on seeing it was to pull it into Photoshop and straighten the vertical lines so I went to Flickr to get the original and I noticed that it's not sharp. Were you shooting through the glass window or was it a handheld slow shutter speed? Just wondering.
Ruth Anne: You're looking at the ceiling.
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Rick, I was, as I say in the post, standing on the terrace. The only thing I was shooting through was New York City air. Probably morning mist.
I am most drawn to the splash of orange and red reflected in the middle of the buildings.
All is gray and blue, but for that that fleeting morning glow.
If it's a hand-held shot, it could be motion blur.
Madison Man: It's not a river. It's a tidal strait. Both ends go out to the Atlantic Ocean.
It's not a river. It's a tidal strait.
So for mirror smooth water, you'd have to be right at high or low tide, just before the water changes directions, plus with calm winds at sunrise. Not very likely.
I'll wave again when I catch the 3:45 boat home.
Maxine, where do you see confusion of tenses in the post?
Or conflict of tenses, I should say.
I would have thought FlickrEscheresque for its excess of intertwined meaningless planes which had to be worked out by a drywaller.
Woo to the pics.
The skyline image is one of the nicest photos you've posted on this blog. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely photos.
Perhaps you could consider doing something like this movie, which was made from web cam clips and stills.
The view from the other side was nowhere near as nice as yours.
What makes the photo most interesting is that the city appears to be immersed in nature contrary to the feeling I usually get in NYC that nature has been banished. (Except Central Park in the fog)
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