Last Sunday I took a stroll around the east part of Midtown (40th-50th Streets) to see what I could find to photograph. Since I am trying to take fewer, better photographs recently I ended up taking not that many, these are a few of the better ones.
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| Autumn leaves in Spring |
Earlier in the day I'd been reading a photography book that had a section on taking autumn photographs so I was surprised and happy to find this rather confused tree in a little garden at the foot of a skyscraper. Looking at it you'd think it was September and not the middle of May! Following what I'd been reading I took the shot from below to get backlighting and increased the exposure so that the leaves didn't come out too dark compared to the white, cloudy sky. I would have preferred a blue sky but you can't have everything -- next time maybe?
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| In between |
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| East River Drive |
In the 50s there's a series of dead-end streets that overlook over East River Drive. I went down 52nd Street, which is lined with very swanky old apartment buildings, and found this view of the river and Queens on the far side.
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| Brooklyn Bridge through the mist |
Taken from the same place, looking south towards Brooklyn Bridge, though in this shot I zoomed in to exclude the uninteresting stuff.
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