72nd Street Station
Broadway runs primarily north-south along Manhattan, but is not parallel to all of the other north-south avenues on the island. Instead, it cuts diagonally from northwest to south east. As…
Broadway runs primarily north-south along Manhattan, but is not parallel to all of the other north-south avenues on the island. Instead, it cuts diagonally from northwest to south east. As…
Pretty much everyone who photographs New York cityscapes goes to the Top of the Rock and gets pictures of uptown, downtown, the rivers, bridges, and sometimes great skies that are visible from the observation deck. Pictures of the fixtures on the observation deck itself are, while not rare, much less common.
What is uncommon is the chance to take a picture of these fixtures with nobody in front of them. For that, it helps to visit on a cold, January night. Not as sharp as I’d like (only the photogs employed by Rock Center can use tripods), nor the best sky, but I do love the image, which seems straight out of a Sci-Fi movie.
Below the fold are 2 more, taken with a D50 on a warm September evening, with a lot more people around, and a better sky.
A couple of months ago I posted a photo of lower Manhattan taken from the Brooklyn Heights promenade. I also posted it on Flickr and all the comments there loved…
Handheld shot of the Apple Store cube on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Photomatix generated too much noise so I ran one exposure through Lucis Pro, and then did some manual…
Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, with trumpet-playing herald angels in the foreground. Merry, merry Christmas everyone.