Fire above

Looking south from Chelsea, an unusually fiery sunset over downtown Manhattan.

Fifth Avenue at night

From under the arch

We finally got some snow last week, so I went out to Central Park to take some photos. I took this close to where I took a previous photo last year, but things look somewhat different this time!

Off duty

This guy grabbed my attention since looked out of place among the usual Soho shopping crowd. Although he was a little wary, but he didn't seem to mind me taking his picture -- but he left where he had been standing as soon as I was done. Looking closely at this photo you can see the earpiece I hadn't noticed at the time, so I guess he is a store security guard or something.

Apart from the "out-of-placeness" of this guy, I liked the combination of him and the woman's photo in the shop window behind him, but the effect is kind of ruined by the black windowframe intersecting his head. I've been paying attention to the background when I take a street portrait more than I used to, but the "and you can ask the subject to move a bit, too" part is clearly still eluding me.

After hours

Something about the colours and lines of this office building caught my eye. Not a great photo, but I think it says something.

Skating alone

Holiday lights

Decorating trees with lights is a big thing around some of the fancier parts of Manhattan. Bright enough to capture with Provia 400X.

Reflection or shadow?

Walking up Fifth Avenue late in the afternoon, the shadow of St Patrick's Cathedral in a neighbouring building caught my eye.

In the tropics

From last summer, a shop with some rather unusual floral decoration. It doesn't really look like Soho!

Amsterdam!!

Best photos of 2011

Since I've been posting photos for more than a year now and it's the start of a new year, I took a look through the photos I took in 2011 and picked out 10 of the best. In chronological order in the posts they appeared in:

• View through a hole
• Series
• Giants
• Columbus Park
• Little Italy
• Birds in flight
• Morning, Buffalo
• Chess players
• Lion on Fifth Avenue

The tenth photo is one I took on the Williamsburg Bridge on December 30th, so it barely qualifies, but it's one of my favourites from the whole year:

The black spiral

Dusk on the Williamsburg Bridge

Lots left to do

November afternoon

A view of the Hudson River from behind Stuyvesant High School that I took a few months ago, from a roll of Fuji Provia 400X film I just had developed. It has a coarser grain than Velvia 50 and colours don't come out as saturated, but it's a lot more convenient to use.

Subway saxophonists

Happy New Year!

Moon Hooch performing at Union Square station. It's not often you find a whole band giving a concert on a subway platform, they attracted quite a crowd.