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Baby I'm from New York!
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can't do
Now you're in New York!
These streets will make you feel brand new,
Big lights will inspire you,
Hear it for New York!
~ Alicia Keys~
.:｡✿*ﾟ‘ﾟI`ll be returning to London photos shortly, also I have a few Spring flowers to show... but I thought I would throw in a rehash of this NYC view, don`t want Manhattan getting jealous :-))
Photograph taken from way up high on observation deck of Empire State Building: Manhattan, NYC.
I do not really like architecture as I am a nature lover who loves poetry in my composition...
But I think since I caught this on my way home after a portrait photoshoot sometime ago, might as well try to process it and see how it turns out... These are some of Singapore's tallest buildings for now. :)
Highest position in Explore = #1 on June 15, 2009, thank you all for the wonderful support!
This shot of the Seattle skyline was taken from Beacon Hill where you can get a really great perspective of the setting sun behind the city this time of year. The weather in Seattle has been wonderful lately. Though the skyline view from Kerry Park is the most preferred "postcard" shot of the city due to the views of the Space Needle and Mt. Rainier, I personally like this view more because it really shows the city in motion. The serpentine flow of traffic in motion reflects the pulse of the city, as if it were living and breathing. The Puget Sound is the city’s important shipping waterway and is shadowed by the Olympic Mountain Range to the West. I could not believe how lucky I was on the night I chose to go on this shoot, I’ve never seen a sunset quite like this one. Hope you all enjoy!
I combined 9 bracketed exposures to really bring out all the color in the sky and in the lights of the city. A few of the exposures toward the end of the set were very long to really capture the lights from the traffic flow. Then standard post processing for levels, curves, and contrast to make it pop.
Montrealers are quite familiar with this urban sculpture. It rises above the Ville-Marie Expressway at the Fort street entrance / exit at the west end of downtown. It is part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture's "sculpture garden" in the green space that surrounds the concrete and ironwork of the expressway. According to the Centre, the sculpture garden "restores the urban fabric of an area deeply scarred by mid-20th-century highway engineering.”
It's always been a favorite of mine, a mental respite while en route to or from home or downtown. This was taken from inside the car while getting on the expressway. The Mr. was driving, I was shooting :D
Like many others, I moved to New York several years ago. And it truly is the land of opportunities. Cheers to New York City!
The skyline of Seattle in Blue Hour taken from a small city park across Elliott Bay.
It was raining the whole day, but about an hour before sunset it stopped, perfect!
Have a nice day everybody.
Offices at Singapore's central business district competing to reach for the sky...
An archive shot processed with Topazlab Adjust
That feeling of weightlessness and vertigo when you get lost looking up for too long in the concrete jungle.
Cold but sunny day, do not often see reflections during day light hours. Not an HDR.
Explore 1/11/09 #114 thanks all
A 200 second long exposure photo of some nice colored houses in the suburbs of Barendrecht.
Have a nice day everyone!
Pictures don't do justice - Overcast skies over Manhattan but clear skies in New Jersey lights up the entire city in Gold.
So I was just about to launch a black and white series but I really lucked out with an amazing sunset this weekend and just had to post this shot! I was just wrapping up from another photo shoot in West Seattle when I realized that the weather had finally broken and I could tell that we were going to have a clear sunset. So I literally ran back to my car, put a fresh set of batteries in my camera, and was off to the races to try and find a really compelling spot for the sunset. From what I could tell, it looked like there were some really interesting clouds forming over the city so I went out to my favorite location, Rizal Park. As I’ve shot that location multiple times this year, I decided to give it a go from the lower vantage on the 12th street bridge. The sunset was phenomenal and as the sun went down, the clouds turned multiple shades of orange and to be honest, I thought that was all she wrote. I was actually in the middle of trying to put together a cool traffic composition when all of a sudden I looked up from my camera and round 2 of the sunset began. The cloud over the city all of a sudden caught fire and turned a brilliant pink. In all my years of photography, I have never seen anything like this. My jaw dropped and I literally almost fell off the 12th street bridge! The color explosion only lasted about 2 and a half minutes. Just long enough for me to fire off a few different length exposures to make sure I had the shot. The best part was that I’ve never been able to get good shots from the bridge due to the vibration caused from the busses and big trucks. One bus did roll through in the middle of my set but the shutter had just clicked right before the vibration started... Talk about luck!
To make things even better, I just so happened to run in to the man, the myth, the legend... Kevin McNeal. It’s always great to run into a fellow photographer, but I must say, I was a bit star struck :-) I mean, this guy was just on the cover of Outdoor Photographer this past November. Anyway, if you haven’t had a chance yet, check out his stream, some of THE BEST landscape photography out there... period! I’m looking forward to head out shooting with Kevin soon and witness some of his magic.
As for the shot, another multiple exposure shot, 6 sec exposure for the sky that was literally SOOC (yep, it was that pink), then 3 longer exposures for the buildings, headlight, and taillight streams.
Hope you all have a fantastic week! Oh, and if others were able to capture this magnificent sunset from different vantage points, please shoot me a Flickrmail, I’d love to see it!
Just a random Bicycle frozen in Time.
That is until first thaw, then Bike will ride again
I took this Photo
My next shot taken while visiting New York. This shot was taken low down on the ground looking up on Lexington Avenue.
The outline of the buildings in New York when looking upwards always seems to create the outline of a jigsaw puzzle piece and I have any more variations to come. I went with black and white on this one as it was more powerful than the colour version.
Edited on Photomatix Pro and Nik Silver Efex Pro.
.... Skyscrapers / office buildings in downtown Toronto, view from Observation Deck of CN Tower ....