Parkscape

I was thinking today about how I generally suck at landscapes, but I took this anyway because of the quality of the light in that opening where the bench is situated - I hope the effect comes through on your monitor, for me it depends on the angle at which I am viewing it - I need a better monitor!

We're having an unusually mild August in NY, a little below average but I think the last few years have been above average, so it feels a bit weird (in 2012 it was 87 F on this day, on 2011 it was 85, and today was 78, with the average at 84). A couple of nice rainy days as well recently leads to some pretty dense greenery.

The Human Scale

Sometimes it's the last-second, what-the-hell-why-not shot that you wind up liking. Of course in hindsight I should have taken a few more seconds to compose it a little better, but it will do for now. I was just reading something earlier this week about the importance of including people just to give a sense of scale, and this is a step. That random beam sticking up there is apparently some kind of extremely minimalist sculpture - not a flag pole or anything else of any discernible practical use. There is a bit of graffiti near the top that some intrepid soul applied - that's about 10-15 meters up:

And yes, the sky and clouds really were that color (looking away from the bridge, where the sun was setting to the west).