The West

Rocks with sky in Colorado Springs. My digital camera failed me, but I also had the immortal F100 handy!

Arch in winter

Under the bridge

The great outdoors

A line of trees that caught my eye on a trip up the Hudson Valley to see the autumn leaves. The simplicity of this photo really appeals to me.

East River in winter

I was out shooting film in Williamsburg this weekend and finished a roll, but I think this is from back in February. A view from Williamsburg over the East River towards around 14th Street, with Stuyvesant Town in the foreground.

Osaka Castle

We're back from our trip to Japan, so here is a very Japanese-looking photo, a little later than promised. I took this at Osaka Castle; not shown is the crowd of other photographers who were also taking photos around this spot. At that time of day this was the best place to take a photo to get back-lighting on the cherry blossoms, but that left the castle itself partly in the shade. If I was really dedicated I would have come earlier and stayed longer to get a better shot, but there was plenty of interesting stuff to do!

While I was taking photographs near this spot a fellow cameraman came up to me and asked to see the photo I had just taken. He said, not bad, but if you frame less tightly you get more of a 3-D feeling in the photo, and showed me his. I felt a sense of accomplishment that my knowledge of Japanese photography jargon is just good enough to understand the phrase "3-D feeling".

Market Street

Market Street seen from Twin Peaks, from a recent trip to San Francisco. It was a long walk to the top but worth it in the end!

East Midtown

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.

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?

In between 

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.

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.