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A short break from my urban NewYork photos - this is Starved Rock State Park, Illinois, where the canyon walls converge and a small waterfall begins. I like the intricate web of branches. I have replaced the original colour version posted in May with this one, processed in ColorEfex to B&W with fairly subdued bi-tonal filtering.
I don't know anything about the colorful artwork, but it caught my eye. The Park also has several pieces of "chainsaw art" (will post one later). This was taken the day after Christmas and it was about 50 degrees! Near Utica, Illinois
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saw this in a kebab shop. doesnae look like a starving wean to me. maybe it was for his own starving wretches.
This guy caught me off guard....I was shooting across the river and Mark told me to look up. When I did this guy was right over head. I didnt have time to adjust my lens for fear I'd miss the shot all together. So I had to sacrifice the ends of his wings.
A steady diet of colour never hurt.
Nutritionally, it's very beneficial. :)
If you have three tubes of paint-you can paint anything.
Don't waste your money on every colour in the rainbow...mix your way to happiness :)
Three big primarys. It's all you need.
I'm cold, wet and starving, and I have no idea why that cow ran into the pond and got stuck in the ice. I NEED a cookie!!! Please!!!!
These deer were captured on Kings Ranch land East of Raymondville on State Hwy, 186 on Saturday afternoon.
With the severe drought we are having here in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas it is not only taking a toll on the crops but the wildlife and animals as well. Next will be no water for human consumption. The water levels are dropping fast and only rains will replace it. In fact it will take a hurricane now to replace what we need. We are short about 9 inches at this time. The last major rain we received here in Willacy County was in October 2005
Starved Rock State Park is filled with canyons, but I think Illinois Canyon is the largest. We had to cross the same winding creek four times just to get to the end of the canyon- not fun in January.
As a musician a lot of my best friends are also musicians. My dear friend Mark is the drummer for this LA based band, "Starving for Gravity" and he asked me if I could work some magic on one of their band pics. This is my first stab at it, realizing of course that this bears some resemblance to other band pic treatments I have done in the past.
I made again visit to my acquaintances in Rakvere theatre park.
With 2 white breads :) View Large On Black
This photo was taken on the southeast corner of Broadway and 72nd St.
The picture speaks for itself...
Note: This photo was chosen as my "photo of the day" for Sep 4, 2013.
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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 ...