NEW YORK, NEW YORK – From a sunset walk on the High Line. Here’s a link for more information about the High Line: Link to High Line site. Leica M9 and 90mm Elmarit. I’ve changed the image on this page after having second thoughts on the selection of the May 6 image.
From the High Line at sunset
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Once again I’m stalking the Chrysler Building. This time from behind the UN Secretariat Building, in color, shooting with medium format.
Chrysler Building and UN Secretariat Building
HARWINTON, CONNECTICUT – I drove to Harwinton today to visit the Connecticut DEP office there, to pick up a boat license. Like most other Litchfield County towns Hawinton has a Congregational Church on a small green – the congregation dates to 1738. The 1935 “Connecticut Guide” says this about Hawrinton
In Harwinton Village, the Congregational Church was built in 1806. The design is simple but pleasing, with the heavily molded cornice of pediment and roof. The 3 front doorways have rounded fanlights and pedimented hoods. Above the central doorway is a Palladian window, repeated in the tower. On the north of the Church is the stone Memorial Chapel, beautiful but incongruous, given by Collis P. Huntington, the financier of the Southern Pacific R. R., in memory of his mother. Huntington was born in the town in1821, and worked on a farm here until the age of 14, when he went to New York to seek his fortune.
Harwinton Connecticut
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Congregation Shaaray Tefila (Hebrew for Gates of Prayer) at Second Avenue and 79th Street. The current sanctuary of this congregation, which was organized in 1859, was dedicated in 1959. It was converted from a Trans-Lux movie theater. I’ve taken the liberty of posting the image twice – once in color and once in gray scale.
Congregation Shaaray Tefila (Hebrew for Gates of Prayer)
Congregation Shaaray Tefila
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Once again stalking the Chrysler Building.
Chrysler Building
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back in Manhattan with my Leica. This is more like it. This image was stitched from three frames and the perspective corrected in Photoshop. It is very much emblematic of the women in my life.
Large Woman - Lexington Avenue
CORNWALL BRIDGE, CONNECTICUT – St. Bridget Church. A Catholic church. Late 19th Century gothic revival, The is very little information online, except that this congregation recently celebrated its 125th anniversary. I took this because of the unusual point of view – the image is taken from a highway bridge that runs above the church. The view is generally obscured by trees except for one spot where this shot is possible. Because of the limited choice in angles there was no way to eliminate the utility wires. May reaction at the time was “The wires are there. We’ll just make them part of the image.” I’m afraid that without a pole or some other indication that they are intentional, they look like a mistake.
St. Bridget Church, Cornwall Bridge Connecticut
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Magical light on West 42nd Street.
West 42nd Street
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Another day of terrible weather, so back to Grand Central Terminal to work inside.
Grand Central Terminal
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Grand Central Terminal. My new favorite rainy day place to photograph. I’ll be studying this over the next few months. Another icon.
Grand Central Terminal
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I captured this lovely morning light out my window.
Out my window
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back home. Once again the weather is cold and wet. This is my second try of a post for this date. The first was a personal memorial for a 24-year-old woman who was evidently killed when her bicycle was hit by a car – it was moving in person but not a good photograph. On March 26 I took it down and replaced it with this image, also taken on March 23, of the Chrysler Building from a long ways away (just north of the UN), which I think is more interesting.
Chrysler Building from the far East Side
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – A day on foot in New Orleans. The French Quarter feels like a tourist trap – not much to photograph that hasn’t been done many, many times before. Walked around the Garden District – there are still many Katrina-damaged houses and public buildings around the edges of the Garden District. Again, this is an old (and mostly unfairly told) story so I skipped it. I’ve settled on the following image (up to my old tricks) – Zion Lutheran Church on St. Charles Street. This is a Missouri Synod church. The congregation was founded in 1847 by German immigrants. The present building dates to 1871. Its gothic architecture bears a relationship to the churches that I’ve been photographing in Connecticut, which is what attracted me to it.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – At the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
St. Patrick's Day Parade
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Back home I took a walk in Times Square at sunset. Times Square has lost its scruffy, sleazy vibe. It’s now more like a cross between a Disney attraction and a corporate logo theme park.
Times Square
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK – The hoped for rain turned into sleet, then snow at Joshua Tree.
Joshua Tree snowfall
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK – My old stomping ground at sunset.
Joshua Tree National Park
NILAND, CALIFORNIA – Salvation Mountain, near Niland. Right next door to Slab City.
Salvation Mountain
ANZA-BORREGO DESERT, CALIFORNIA – I grew up in the desert in Utah so arid places are deeply in my comfort zone. Anzo-Borrego is a serious desert – annual precipitation is less than 7 inches. During the 1982-89 drought total precipitation was zero. The Borrego Badlands is often listed as the hottest place in the United States – average summer temperatures are 107 degrees. Highs of 125 degrees have been recorded.
But this spring there has been reasonable rainfall, so the desert here is remarkably green.
Desert in bloom
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A second day of heavy, wet snow. Accumulation in Central Park is 18 inches.
Central Park at 90th Street
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – We had a major storm in the Northeast today. This is in Madison park after a diner featuring Greyledge Farm grass fed black angus at the James Beard House.
Madison Square
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Times Square, on my way to see Time Stands Still at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
Times Square
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In Washington for a food policy conference. I spent the morning exploring the Lincoln Memorial end of the Mall, including an emotional hour at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Captured in infrared.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Madison Square at night.
Madison Square and the Shake Shack
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