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 56 - Giving Your Subject A New Look - New York City
As photographers or artists, we find ourselves in a state of repetition more often then we would like to admit. For me, I often photograph a lot of Downtown Manhattan since it's easy for me to get around on my bike and I often fly over with FlyNYON. Since the Freedom Tower sticks out like a sore thumb, I'm constantly getting new perspectives on it...
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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 53 - Golden Hour Freedom Tower - New York, NY
Like the title? Sounded like a rap lyrics, didn't it??? Everyone knows the best time to shoot photos is golden hour, or right when the sun is about to set. From 1,500ft in the air though it's a similar story, but on another level...
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Photo Of The Week 21 - Blue Hour Of Freedom - New York, NY
It's always good to keep all of your photos on file, even if they're photos you don't particularly think are good enough to keep. Lately, I've been going through some old folders and found a ton of unused files from the first time I flew with FLYNYON last year. You change as a photographer over time and you might see something differently later on...
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Photo Of The Week 19 - Up Close And Personal With The Tribute Lights - New York, NY
This past weekend was the anniversary of September 11th and amongst all of the remembrance, it's a New York City tradition to have the tribute lights that shoot into the sky from downtown Manhattan. A few years ago I went for the first time to actually shoot photos of these lights but never got a chance to be right up next to them and it was something I had to do...
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