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This was taken on Grand, between Greene and Mercer, in the SoHo district of Manhattan.
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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.
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 ...
A couple of years ago it was decided to make the Meuse a safer river. To that end channels and 'bays' were dug to 'dilute' the waters in case of a deluge. One of the digs led to the formation of a spit in the river between Blerick and Venlo. It's a wild place, a nature reserve and a free-roaming area for Galloways. And of course for hikers such as your Obedient Servant.
Always lots to be seen here. Today I noticed these Great Banded Furrow-Bees visiting a Marsh Thistle. Obviously that Thistle likes these grounds which should be wetter than they are in the drought we're experiencing. Those Bees have been making inroads into the fauna of the northern Low Counties. Not long ago they were seen primarily along the Meuse 'down south' around Maastricht. But now they've been spotted more to the north and also here in Blerick-Venlo. Take a look at those beautiful double-banded markings!
there are still some plumes left for wishes in this dandelion. pick one and make a wish. have a wonderful Sunday, you all.
here's make a wish song (inspired by the movie, Charlotte's Web) for your listening pleasure (video will open in a new window)
306 days to go before my next trip to the Philippines
Make/Model - Scania N270UD OmniCity (1145), Optare Solo SR (3805), ADL Enviro400 (1616 + 1618)
Previous Operators - Salisbury Reds (1145)
1145 and 3805 were waiting before starting an afternoon school run.
1616 had just finished a journey on route 5 from East Cowes via Osborne House and Medina.
1618 was preparing to leave on route 7 to Alum Bay via Newbridge and Yarmouth.
I am an amateur, excuse my DEFORMED WRIST. I do not know how to do the photoshops.
(Good friends let you use their body for poses, stripping layers when told, and make you a cast to cover the wrist. D. <3)
66183 blows the leaves from the line as it heads down a cutting near Bedlinog with 6C83 11:30 Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery to Margam.
always looking for something a little different to what I normally post so a different pose makes a change all be it only a slight change.
I had a lovely night out wearing this dress once again, Its such a fab frock to dance around in. The new hair needs to settle in a bit give a few weeks of abuse and it will look as natural as can be.
Make/Model - Alexander Dennis Dart SLF/Alexander Dennis (Plaxton) Pointer
Previous Operators - Stagecoach Highlands, Stagecoach Bluebird
I was removing my red queen's face up and I took that pic.
She looks so different with and without make up :O
Sculpt: Minifee Chloe mod.
Name: Akatsuki, the Red Queen
Face up made by me
My obligatory dandelion shot.....make a wish, lol!
Added to EXPLORE for June 3rd 2009. Highest position: #210
Make: Leyland Olympian ONCL10/1R
Body: Northern Counties H47/30F
Year : 1989
Webber Road
Kirkby
Merseyside
5-06-2022
New to Merseybus (0263)
Painted in Accrington Corporation Heritage Livery.
make-up - Julia Krylova
hair - Juna
designer - TimshI
models - Melissa and Anastasia
photographer - Alina Valitova
Leica MP
Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II
Fuji Neopan 400 @ 800 ISO
Ilford ID-11 1+0
13 min 30 sec 20°C
Scan from negative film
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Taken in Black Dragon using Premium clouds nature windlight from Battlescars
Backdrop - K&S Pastel bliss.
What else I’m wearing:-
Head - Lelutka Avalon.
Body - Legacy.
Hairbase - Angel Eyes.
Lingerie set - Muse make me blush.
Bolero - Tres Blah.