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Tag: Manhattan
New York Liberty
As the official banking partner of the NY Liberty team, Barclays had the first float on the ticker tape parade organized by the City of New York. The event was exciting for all. New Yorkers came from all over, especially from Brooklyn. The air was filled with gratitude to a team that fought all the way to the championship for the first time in their franchise history. The parade was a party! Barclays’ colleagues on the float had a great time. So did I, who had the opportunity to photograph the parade and the ceremony at City Hall.
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Barclays Powering Champions Just before the parade started, I walked by each float to take pictures. You could see how happy the players were. I had the chance to get a big smile from Jonquel Jones, the team’s MVP, who was carrying her trophy.
Barclays Powering Champions After the parade, there were more celebrations at City Hall.
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Barclays Powering Champions New York commuter
I think this is a quintessential New York image. It is not the Empire State building, or Lady Liberty, or Grand Central Terminal. It is just a commuter pedaling his way through steam to get to work in Midtown Manhattan.
I was coming back from a shoot, so I had my camera with me. I saw the steam leak and took out my camera. I did take a bunch of pictures, using different angles. Then I saw cars passing through the steam, and some people riding bikes. This was one of the best shots I took that day.
So, here it is, to the heroes who brave the streets on New York to go to work.
Oculus in Downtown Manhattan
Picture of the Month (October, 2023)
I had a long lens and was located on a higher floor at the Oculus in Downtown Manhattan. That makes observing people and their behavior much easier. It’s like an anthropological study of visitors and tourists inside of one of New York’s newest attractions. The Oculus is a combination of transportation hub and shopping center. Actually, it is the third largest transportation center in NYC. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish architect born in the town of Benimàmet in Valencia. Calatrava is not only and architect, but also a structural engineer, sculptor, and painter.
As I was observing the people walking or standing around this particular stand, I noticed how everybody was living in their own world. I had my camera ready and carefully composed my shot. You can see the result below.
Downtown Manhattan I did take several shots and it took me some time to do the post-production (because I was busy with other projects). But I finally worked on the pictures and chose the ones I liked the most.
I hope you like this one, too.
The Naked Cowboy
Picture of the Month (March 2023)
Manhattan is full of well-known tourist attractions: the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, Grand Central Terminal, the Statue of Liberty, and Times Square, among others.
Times Square was the center of many sinful activities and businesses during the 70’s. Sinners from all over will visit this crossroad (7th Avenue, Broadway, and West 45th Street) to enjoy strip tease shows, drug dealing, adult magazines, prostitution, and much more.
In the 80’s, Times Square started changing when the City of New York adopted strong actions to provide safety in the area. Disney Corporation bought buildings in the area and the City of New York invested money to make changes. Today, Times Square hosts well known corporate stores and offices, like Disney, M&Ms, Hershey’s, NASDAQ, and Hard Rock Café. It also offers a kiosk to buy tickets to a Broadway Show at a discount, and a myriad of Comic characters ready to be part of your selfie. The lights from the neon, and LED signs, with their varying palette of colors, bathe hundreds of tourists, commuters, and a few locals who walk around.
Times Square still has vestiges from the 70’s. Summer or Winter, the Naked Cowboy wanders Times Square dressed in only a hat, boots, and a guitar that covers the front of his underwear. He walks Times Square ready to sing to tourists and pose with them for a picture …
The Naked Cowboy sings to tourists at a balmy 56 °F. Everything changes, but everything remains the same …
Cold and Pretty
Picture of the Month (February 2023)
February can be very cold, as we had three days of Arctic temperatures in the North East. But, it can be pretty. Especially when the sun is out and about at a lower level on the horizon. Here is where you get the calid colors in the late afternoon. (Just the colors, the air is still freezing …)
Sun comes down for a winter sunset in Central Park, Manhattan And, as you can see, Central Park is always a great place to spend an afternoon and take a picture or two.
Javier
New York Skyline
Picture of the Month (January 2023)
I usually, that is about 99.8% of the time, do not modify the pictures I take to look differently from what I saw. I do not add lightning, or change the sky, or abuse the editing tools available in Lightroom or Photoshop. The idea is to represent what I see in a truthful manner.
Having said that, I had a “what if” moment when editing this cityscape from lower Manhattan. I decided to manipulate the color of the sky to make it a little more dramatic. I like the result very much. I just don’t plan on doing this more often 😊
New York Skyline Grand Central Terminal
Andando por el “centro” de Manhattan (Midtown, que le dicen), decididamente entré al Grand Central Terminal. Quería hacer fotos dentro, para capturar algo de los cambios que le hicieron para la celebración de los 100 años de su construcción. El tamaño de su vestíbulo principal es inmenso, especialmente para una estructura que no tiene columnas en el medio, sino sólo a los lados. Es como la nave principal de una gran catedral. Y esta comparación no es sólo en términos arquitectónicos.
Central Pacific RR (Wikipedia) Este vestíbulo alberga a viajeros, visitantes, turistas, gente local y trabajadores de la Gran Manzana. El movimiento es constante, especialmente cuando los trenes llegan y la gente baja de los trenes a las plataformas y luego al vestíbulo para decidir si irán al subterráneo, o saldrán a tomar un taxi, o esperarán a alguien con quien continuar la travesía. Quién sabe. El ajetreo es incesante y una gran oportunidad para el observador, especialmente si este trae una cámara consigo.
Decidí hacer varias fotos del vestíbulo principal, de las grandes ventanas, de la gente andando y viniendo. También decidí hacer una serie de tomas en secuencia para integrarlas en una imagen animada (GIF).
El resultado de una de estas secuencias está abajo. Quise contrastar el movimiento de la gente con la estancia de un grupo de chicas que descansaban sentadas en el suelo. Me gusta ver cómo una de ellas sigue el movimiento de alguien que camina detrás de suyo.
© Javier Domínguez. Todos los Derechos Reservados. (Secuencia de fotos tomada con una Nikon D700, Nikkor 80-200mm @ 200mm, f/6.3, 1/3 seg, ISO 1000.) Manhattan al Atardecer
Una tarde hace ya un par de años tomé el auto y manejé por el tunel “Lincoln” hacia Nueva Jersey. Fui hasta el Parque Hamilton en Weehawken, que queda al frente de la calle 46 en Manhattan. Ahí puse mi trípode y mi cámara (una Nikon N90s) con un rollo de slides Velvia de 50 ASA. Empecé a tomar fotos anticipándome a la caida del sol. Tenía pensado también hacer una panorámica compuesta de una serie de imágenes a ser “pegadas”. En este caso, la panorámica está compuesta por 5 fotos.
Una vez que revelé el rollo, tomé las fotos escaneadas y las trabajé con Photoshop. Este programa, en su última versión, tiene una opción de automatización que permite unir las fotos de un panorama (ya sea vertical, horizontal, o compuesto – tipo matriz de fotos).
El resultado lo pueden ver al lado.
Manhattan es una isla y está rodeada por el río Hudson en el lado oeste, y el río Este, por el lado oriental. Manhattan es uno de los cinco Boroughs que componen la ciudad de Nueva York. Los otros son el Bronx, en el norte, Queens, en el este, Brooklyn en el sur, y Staten Island al sur-oeste.
En este perfil de Manhattan se puede reconocer al Empire State Building, el Chrisler Building, el edificio de la revista New Yorker. Además se puede ver el portaviones “Intrepid”, que es usado como mueso, y los edificios que contienen los ventiladores que cambian el aire en el tunel “Lincoln”. El perfil abarca desde la calle 57 Oeste hasta la calle 28 Oeste aproximadamente.