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Closeups give me that blackbook feel. Remember when you had time to rock full blown blackbook prodos? Pick up a can and its all history. Good times...
....Nothing like the real shit, though.
Two of the boys in the interaction are my grandchildren, August 2004 in MD USA swimming party, at the end of summer. This was a discussion, after it they got together, two of my grandchildren and the young girl with a bird very well.
This photo remains one of my favorites
as I succeeded so well to catch not only the interaction between the kids, but each others very different expression.
This was taken on the corner of 9th Ave and 38th Street.
This kind of social behavior seems to be pretty universal these days. I thought perhaps it was something one would only see in the U.S. (and perhaps only in NYC) ... but I saw the same thing in Rome and Paris about a month ago.
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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 ...
The (R)ogue (R)iver (R)anch infront of the famous Table Rcok
exposure was taken using a Canon EF-S 17-85mm lens with a Hoya Circular Polarizer.
My favourite photo.....Like I said, we have never been so close to these guys before....it was really interesting how human their interactions are....this female tried to hand a plastic water bottle to my daughter through the glass. If they could only talk....
2008, Please excuse the blue tone through these images. These are ready-to-print files which were enhanced for the particular paper i was using.
models - me and tobias
Initial draft of a diagram depicting the essential elements of a socially constructed learning environment. Rationale for the matrix is available at www.idolresources.com/?p=486
I actually took some time today to do some new SPs. These aren't them. I'm still deciding if I like any of them. We shall see. It didn't go as well as planned. :)
I'm continuing my week of self portraits. You get parts of me today.
3 lovely tgirls turn a few heads in Sheffield. Thats Joanna, Michelle and me. Meanwhile in the background 3 guys try to pretend to their mates that they aren't interested, while grabbing a crafty look (so typical)
"Puddle"
Gyrfalcon,
The British Bird of Prey Centre,
National Botanic Garden of Wales,
Middleton Hall,
Llanarthe,
Carmarthenshire.
TAKEN - Sat 30th Oct'21
The Gyrfalcon thrives in some of the harshest climates on Earth. This denizen of the mountains and high arctic tundra is a circumpolar species, found throughout the region of the North Pole. It nests in the arctic and subarctic regions of North America, Europe, Asia, Greenland, and Iceland.
Photographed with permission and many thanks to the supervisors for helping with social interactions and kindness.
Photo (c) Tom.2024.
Farmers markets are always a great place to see a great mix of people, animals, and produce all interacting.
July 2025 vacation to New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Images of the interacting galaxies The Mice (NGC 4676), the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/4039), and the Cartwheel (ESO 350-40) galaxy. Credit: The Mice: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA, Antennae Galaxies: Robert Gendler, The Cartwheel: ESA/Hubble & NASA.
medievalpoc: Gold Imitation of a Byzantine Coin China, 6th century AD From the Astana cemetery, near Turfan, north-west. The British Museum, London. Gold imitations of Byzantine solidi have been found at various sites in China, mostly in the tombs of wealthy people in northern China, buried between the fourth and eighth centuries AD. It is likely that the coins were treasured prestige items of the rich. Gold coins are mentioned in written documents found in the tombs of the Astana cemetery. For example, burial lists of the mid-sixth to mid-seventh centuries outlining the contents of the tomb often refer specifically to gold coins. Despite this, actual gold coins are not often found in the tombs, so it may be that the lists were wishful thinking. It seems that the practice of including real or imagined gold coins in tombs was only common for about one hundred years as earlier documents refer to gold by weight rather than to coins, and later documents simply list ‘sufficient gold and silver’. [source] F. Thierry and C. Morrisson, ‘Sur les monnaies byzantines trouvées en Chine’, Revue Numismatique-1, 6th series, 36 (1994), pp. 109-45. H. Wang, 'The Stein collection of coins from Chinese Central Asia’ in Studies in Silk Road coins a-1 (Kamakura, Institute of Silk Road Studies, 1997), pp. 187-99. F. Thierry, 'Sur les monnaies sassanides trouvées en Chine’, Res Orientales, 5 (1993), pp. 89-139. M.A. Stein, Innermost Asia: detailed repor, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1928, reprinted New Delhi, 1981).
This is my wife and my only born kid. (I´ve got one in there as well). I´ve seen some pregnant+headphones photos before, and I wanted to do something in that category. The idea of adding my son, and let him control the iphone came while we were shooting. Too bad I was unable to get a good shot of him looking up.
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One SB-600 @ approx 1/8 thru 80cm white umbrella on camera top and approx the same height. Triggered with Cactus V4
Please meet our lab's first next generation "Mia", and congratulate Mike and Catherine (on the left) for being the proud parents..While Mia is holding the index finger of other Catherine, her eyes are contacting my 50 mm prime.. She is almost half a year now..
Coyotes mate from January to March, with pups born 63 days post-ovulation. This is the same for the domestic dog. The coyote stands 21" at the withers, about the height of a female Siberian Husky. Pre-mating behaviors begin a couple of months before breeding, which is shown in this photo. Note the blood on the nuzzling individual....likely from feeding on prey. It is said that most coyotes mate for life, as do wolves. The playful behavior I witnessed was typical precursor to breeding seen in domestic dogs.