After attending the Photo Plus expo the other weekend, you see so many amazing huge prints, new gear, and hear free seminars that you can't help but want to go out and shoot photos right away. Luckily, I had my camera with me and it was an unseasonably warm night in NYC, so I was able to take my bike out and ride around while I waited for my wife to get out of work downtown. I also had my new Sony 12-24mm f/4, so it was a nice chance to utilize this focal length with street/ cityscape photography...
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Photo Of The Week 54 - All The NYC Icons In One Image - Staten Island, NY
Staten Island is known mostly for having the Staten Island Ferry which is a free ferry boat that commutes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week back and forth from Staten Island and Manhattan. It's a big tourist attraction since it's free and also has great views of downtown Manhattan and the Statue Of Liberty. For many, many years I've skated this part of the Island and especially the Staten Island Yankee Stadium which offers this view of lower Manhattan as well but I somehow never noticed how far back the view reached...
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Photo Of The Week 52 - Island Hopping In NYC - New York, NY
I did it! One full year of posting a story about a photo every week! To celebrate, this weeks photo is of a view I have been quite familiar with over the past 20yrs or so...
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Photo Of The Week 50 - Selective Sony Focus - New York, NY
Sony has a lot of great cameras out now from the A7 line up to the newly announced A9 coming out soon. However, they're still trying to catch up on the glass game with their competitors. I've been shooting Sony for about a year and a half and still managed to hold on to a few Canon lenses that I can't bring myself to get rid of. There are also a few lenses that Sony hasn't even made at all yet, like tilt-shift lenses. I'm still new to using tilt shift lenses but I would LOVE for Sony to make a few...
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Photo Of The Week 44 - Winter Storm Advisory? - New York, New York
Another one of the Manhattan skyline but there was something unique about this day. This morning, New York woke up to a winter storm advisory with high winds and heavy snowfall. On my way to the office, it was nothing but pretty outside with the icy roads and extremely limited visibility...
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Photo Of The Week 16 - Lightning Strikes - NYC
Last week, New York City got an epic lightning storm. Luckily I was somewhat free that day so I decided to ride my bike into the city as I usually would. I was trying to delay my ferry ride back to Staten Island because I knew something big was coming in the distance. Towards New Jersey there were dark clouds coming, then came the lightning. I knew that was the perfect time to jump on the ferry and try to get a skyline lightning shot...
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