Snow Tracks

A light dusting of snow fell yesterday. Back to work this week means limited opportunity for shooting, Combined with early sunset it's a challenge.

Four Square

A little color break today. Four square is a game we played in the south in the 70s in middle school (7/8th grade, around ages 11-13). I've never seen kids in the city play it. It's a rather aggressive game best described by wikipedia ( don't even remember all the rules myself).

Curves

New York City is a crowded, messy, loud cacophony of both sights and sounds (or whatever the visual equivalent of a cacophony is). Finding simplicity and peace amid the noise, I've come to realize, is what my photography is mostly about. It's why most of my photos are about zooming in on details and small slices of the city to cut out or reduce the chaos.

Cables

They look so delicate at this distance. Cables suspending the George Washington Bridge, sunset highlights.

George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal

The terminal is undergoing major renovations at the street level, Looks promising. Here's a street level shot showing how decrepit it is now.

Blocks

A little geometry today. Plus light & shadow.

Another Sunset...

Another year. Another one rising. Let's hope it's a good one!

George Washington Bridge from the roof of my building. It was glorious. No, photos don't do it justice. Taken 2 days ago, but I wanted to post something finish off the year. Thanks to everyone who visits and comments!

Great Lawn

In Central Park. Closed for the winter. Golden ratio. This one demanded a wide crop (16:9).

Down by the Railroad Tracks

Another from yesterday's walk along the Hudson.

Exit 14

Around the neighborhood, sign directing toward my beloved GWB.

Winter Skyline

Rock, Paper, Water

Sporadic posting after a long dry spell. Hope to get back on track soon.

Staghorn Sumac

This one is very early to show its fall colors.

Hosta Flowers

From Saturday's rainy day walk. A perfect intermittent drizzle and almost no wind is an unusual set of conditions, at least here along the river where I live, so I walked around Fort Tryon's Heather Gardens shooting typical flowers-with-raindrops shots. Hard to resist, even if it's been done to death.

European Beech

A beautiful specimen in Ft. Tryon Park with a diameter at base of almost 2 meters.This is where it splits off into 3 major branches, Rainy day with wet and dry spots on the bark.

*Cannot get this to look on blogger the way it looks in photoshop - even when I take it to a ridiculously dark and contrasty setting in PS it still looks washed out here - the blacks aren't black enough and in this picture the tonality is especially important. Oh well.


UPDATE - SOLUTION FOUND:

Blogger is linked to google+ and Picasa in a convoluted way that I won't even try to explain. The important thing is that google+ has an image "auto enhance" feature that is on by default and applies to both google+ and Blogger images. I turned that off and re-uploaded the image with tones that look right on my monitor.