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Scenes of Quebec City in the Province of Quebec. This City Was Founded in 1608. The Only Walled in North America North of Mexico. May - 2013. IMG_7727
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Several guest speakers deliver their praises and words of encouragement to the Airmen of the 146th Air Support Operations Squadron during an official welcome home and ribbon cutting ceremony held at the new ASOS training facility held on base Sept. 15. The squadron was deployed to Afghanistan from July 2011 to April 2012 in support of Army and Air Force operations overseas.
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The London skyline from out in east in Canary Wharf. What monuments can you spot in the image?
Tokyo, Japan
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The beautiful skyline of Singapore and it's well-known mascot Merlion, a mythical creature with a lion's head and the body of a fish.
The last photo from my Singapore series. Hope you liked them all :-)
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Kuwait - Kuwait City
Photographer : Marshad AlMarshad
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Camera: Nikon D3S
Exposure : 13
Aperture : f/22.0
Focal Length : 24 mm
ISO Speed : 400
Exposure Bias : -1/3 EV
Blue hour at Lake Eola Park in the beautiful City of Orlando, the home of The Magic Kingdom of Disney World! After finishing up a location assignment in that city, the weather was so perfect, so got some "take out dinner" and ate it at this place while shooting some long exposures of the skyline of Orlando. They didn't get into this shot, but there were so many white and black swans! Not only the city, but this beautiful park is a place I highly recommend to anyone!
A part of New York that has changed so dramatically in my 52 years is 42nd Street. To my immigrant parents in the 1970’s, and many others, exiting the Port Authority or coming in via the Lincoln Tunnel, it was the first thing they saw and it defined and in many ways still defines what New York is to them. I remember the Terminal Bar was right there when you exited the Port Authority Bus Terminal and as you looked east, up 42nd street, the multiple marquis of theaters that lined the area between Eighth and Seventh Avenues, theaters with movies rated XXX. Very quickly you could spot the prostitutes and perhaps their pimps standing close to the businesses between the theaters. Signs that read “Peep Show” and “All girls completely nude” I remember very close to Times Square. I grew up in 1970’s, when this Street, 42nd Street hit rock bottom. The street filled with Checker taxi cabs in traffic, boy, my folks hated going into the city and would only do so when they had to. I remember a girl I was dating from University of Pennsylvania had two roommates from down south. When we took them to city, they insisted on being taken to 42nd Street so that they could see real hookers, so we did. There were drunks that in the summer just slept on the sidewalk, people would just walk by and sometimes stare, the strong stench of urine or vomit emanated up the entire block.
My three kids have a hard time believing that it was that down trodden seeing the crowded but tourist & family friendly street today, that I’ve had to show them old photographs of what the city looked like. This image I took a few weeks ago looking east is on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street, as you leave the Port Authority Bus Terminal. This is what the scene I described above looks like today, bright and commercialized, an area flooded with tourists, the lights of theaters the Regal & AMC’s Empire showing the latest in cinema, Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, Ripley’s Believe or Not Museum, the spires of 4 Times Square & Bank of America and distinct lighting & shape of the beautiful Chrysler Building way down the street. It looks nothing like the 42nd Street of my childhood, I understand that, but my loving parents do not. When my kids go into the City, my oldest works in the City & travels into the Port Authority Bus Terminal, they fear their grandkids are going into that horrible decrepit 42nd Street and Times Square they remember and relate to. The kids and I can’t get my dad to go into the City for that reason.
So the turn-around really started with Mayor Ed Koch; some of the plans he put in motion took time after his term in particular “The 42nd Street Development Land Improvement Project". Mayor David Dinkins Safe Streets, Safe Cities program and federal funding for 7,000 policemen began the downward trend in crime after 30 years of upward trends. Many of Koch’s plans went into full swing when former prosecutor Rudy Giuliani became mayor and his police commissioner Bill Bratton started aggressively enforcing what were seen by prior administrations as relatively minor crimes like graffiti, people who jumped turnstiles in the subways and the notorious “squeegeemen”. Who were the “squeegeemen”? When one exited the Lincoln Tunnel and was mired in traffic, the “squeegeemen” would aggressively start cleaning your windshield, many times with dirty water and then angrily demanded that you pay them; my dad always did. The XXX theaters closed and then Disney rebuilt the New Amsterdam Theater and opened their store on the corner of 42nd and Seventh Avenue and what many refer to as the Disneyfication of the Times Square area began (the store has since relocated in the heart of Times Square in the old Virgin Records Megastore locale). The same general policies especially the focused policing continued under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s three terms, the billionaire, who put many other things into motion into the city continuing a positive and progressive agenda. I’m sure many who witnessed the deplorable and decadent conditions in the 1970’s probably didn’t believe that such a turn-around could occur, but it has thanks to some visionary people determined to make the difference it really has.
Taken with Nikon J1 with Nikor 10-30MM F3.5-5.6 VR lens handheld, RAW file processed in Adobe Lightroom.