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This was taken at the corner of Christopher & Bedford Street in Greenwich Village.
Note: this photo was published in a Feb 23, 2015 blog titled "Ignore your FOMO — missing out can be a good thing." It was also published in an Apr 30, 2015 blog titled "La era post-PC es más real que nunca: más usuarios sólo-móvil que sólo-escritorio en EEUU." And it was published in a May 11,2015 blog titled "Business Insider is hiring gadget-obsessed editors and reporters." It was also published in a May 30, 2015 blog titled "Selfie PSA."
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
270° Panorama vom Bergfried der Burg Königstein
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Hampden, Baltimore
February 2012
One shot left on this test roll and Toad here kindly agreed to pose for a street portrait (despite the fact that it was freezing cold with a rain/sleet mix going). I hadn't done this sort of street portrait thing since I was living in London, but he was game (he was a photographer while in the Army and shot with a Bronica.. until the government switched to digital). Crappy weather, nice guy.
I note stains on the negative which lead me to believe I that need to make sure I wash better after the fix cycle?
Hasselblad 500c/m
Zeiss 80mm 2.8
Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in TMAX (1:4)
For more lagniappe, click on the album with that title below. (To access the “lagniappe” album on your iPhone, click on the information icon at the bottom of this screen; then, when your next screen appears, scroll down just a bit, and you'll see that "album.")
The gardener picks armfuls of flowers from the Charleston cutting garden to display in large vases on the festival marquee speakers' platform. This large pot is glazed lapis blue.
I was there to listen to Angelica Garnett, author and artist, daughter of Vanessa Bell and painter Duncan Grant, and niece of Virginia Woolf. Angelica grew up at Charleston, the country home in Sussex of the Bloomsbury Group.
Oh, and punctuation mistakes - I was taking notes at a fast pace while listening and drawing - that's my excuse.
Most of today has been spent making notes. Zoom meetings, phone calls, reading student work, planning for further socially distanced course delivery and drafting sections of a paper that I should have had finished *ages* ago. I'm still one for old-fashioned pen and paper. I'm also quite OCD when it comes to pens and notebooks. For example - in this particular work notebook I have to use a fountain pen with a specific blue ink. Yeah, I know. Weird.
A 10.3-metre, single-door Leyland National of Cynon Valley District Council, seen on Friday 29th December 1978. The bus had been new earlier in the year and is seen in Aberdare. Cynon Valley was, of course, the descendant of the town's UDC operation; I believe it was eventually absorbed by Red & White. Livery was a sort of sang de boeuf, with a propensity to fade. Note donkey jacket, right, a proletarian fashion of the sixties and seventies, usually with plastic yoke, lacking in this particular example. Last year I found an identical garment in the bottom of a trunk. It was one of a CEGB-issue pair, donated my by first father-in-law. I can't remember what happened to the other. Following the reinstatement of two missing buttons, it served me well throughout last winter.
Safeway located at 2849 East Ledbetter Dr. in Dallas,TX. The building is currently sub-divided between an Auto Zone and a vacant space formerly occupied by Family Dollar.
Note Safeway opened this 18,540 square foot store on March 10th 1970. After six years in operation Safeway sold this location to Minyard Food Stores which held their grand opening on July 28th 1976.
In the Summer of 1996 Minyard closed this location and the building sat vacant until the late 1990's when Auto Zone and Family Dollar opened in the former grocery store.
Note Family Dollar vacated their 9,539 square foot portion of the building in the Fall of 2024.
*Screenshot from a WFAA news report aired on February 1st 1972
Note on reverse: "Ballon wird abgerüstet in der Champagne Lager I" - 'Balloon is dismantled in the Champagne region at Camp I'
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Ever wanted an outfit but just never got around to getting it as there were many other outfits you wanted more? There are SO many Francie outfits I wanted that ‘Note The Coat’ always got passed over for something else, but I always really loved its simple, clean lines and that wonderful bark-like texture of the crepe fabric! I also LOVE those short 60’s double breasted coats, and the fact that its white reminds me of something that Courregés or even Valentino would have done, as in that famous all-white collection he designed in 1968. This coat of course, was released a year earlier, as Francie was always a trendsetter! I decided to go ‘all-white’ here and do a typical 60’s head-to-toe monochromatic look on my 1966 bend-leg Francie, using the stylish white cotton hat from the later ‘That Girl’ doll from 2002 and the white pleather pants from ‘Leather Limelight’. She also borrowed Tressy’s camera for the day, as I needed something black, white and graphic swinging from her arm! I may do another look without the pants and substitute some space age white Mod boots next…
As part of the hidden gardens in Vannes, this garden of pots was not hidden but beautifuly laid out in a wave.
2015 07 30 142846 France Brittany Vannes 1HDR
Notities van bezoekers na een rondgang door het Dolhuys ('museum van de geest' in Haarlem) en een blik in de spiegel
Notes of visitors of Dolhuys ('Madhouse', museum about mental problems and psychiatry in Haarlem), after finishing their visit with a look in the mirror
Geelong Botanic Gardens. The gardens were first set aside as a public space in 1850, taking up the whole of today's Eastern Park. The botanic gardens were later isolated to a fenced-off area in the centre of the park..
By the late 1800s facilities included a large wooden fernery, three miles (4.8 km) of carriage drives, an aviary, monkey house, and a fish hatchery.
The first curator of the gardens was Daniel Bunce, who was appointed in 1857. In 1859 a conservatory and greenhouse were erected in the gardens. John Raddenberry took over the curatorship of the gardens in 1872 after the death of Bunce the same year..
The gardens were renovated in 2002, with a new section for arid-climate and local native plants opened. It features a dramatic entrance with Queensland Bottle Trees (Brachychiton rupestris), combining architectural plants with modern garden sculptures..
Most certainly one of my favourite things on a cold, cold winter day is a nice warm bowl of homemade soup - broccoli and stilton, yummy!!
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What would life be without music?
The world would be a very quiet place. Music is in many ways the fabric of our lives and the definition of society.
Music has had a very strong impact on my life. I have been brought up in a musical environment. My parents are great musicians and my idols. Musical melodies bound my family together. I believe that music has healing powers. If we had arguments or family problems, we used to sit together, sing, dance and spend a musical evening. These musical evenings are embedded in my soul as beautiful memories. I dedicate this project to those precious moments.
In this project, I desire to emphasize that common men, women and children practise the art of music besides their daily routine work. Firstly It seems in recent years being busy has become the rule rather than the exception. Anywhere you go you would find people who have no time for themselves and therefore no time for exploring their musical talents.
Secondly in India we do not really appreciate careers in the unconventional fields of music and arts. The mindset of parents and society is such that it does not allow such talents to come out. They want their children to grow up to be either doctors or engineers. Any field in which the future is uncertain or risky is strongly discouraged.
The fact remains that there are so many people who are very talented but are either not able to explore their talent or not able to use it. It is due to this reason that these people go unheard.
However there are people who fight against all odds to follow their dreams. They take time out from their busy schedules be it their work or studies to practise music. Through this project I would like the highlight and bring to limelight the hidden musical talent in people; people who obey Shakespeare when he says, “If music be the food of love, play on...!”
The other photographs related to this project will be published as part of a book... The preview can be seen in my facebook profile...
model: Abhilash Sudhindran
musical instrument: flute
profession: student @NID