Ed Yourdon
Three chess games, Jul 2009 - 33
Note: this photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Nov 2009) Squidoo blog titled "How to Find Great Movies and Music." It was also published in a Jan 27, 2011 blog titled "Win More Chess Games by Meditating." And it was published in a Sep 6, 2011 blog titled "Meditation Workouts Raise Self-confidence and Reduce Pressure." It was also published in an Oct 1, 2011 blog titled "Brainwave Meditation: What It Can Do For You."
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You never know what you're going to find when you wander out into the streets of New York with a camera. While on my way to dinner at a local sushi restaurant last night, I stopped at a neighborhood playground on 99th Street and Amsterdam Avenue to see if there was a basketball game underway that I might photograph.
There was, but that was not the real "photo-op" that presented itself. Over at the side of the playground, there were some stone tables with chess boards laid out, and a few games of chess were underway. I watched a sequence of three games: a mother playing against a handsome, serious-looking man; then what appeared to be the mother's son, playing against the same man; and then the son playing against another young fellow who had stopped by to watch.
I took 165 photos, and with some difficulty winnowed it down to 40 "keepers". There's only so much variety that you can find in pictures of chess pieces on a board, but if you know anything about serious chess players, you'll know that what's most photogenic is their hands and their fingers as they grasp their chess piece at the beginning of a move, or their opponent's piece when they're about to remove it...
I've got lots of other stuff going on, so I'll only be able to edit and upload about 10 of these photos each day; it will take a few days to get all of them up here. Please be patient...
Three chess games, Jul 2009 - 33
Note: this photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Nov 2009) Squidoo blog titled "How to Find Great Movies and Music." It was also published in a Jan 27, 2011 blog titled "Win More Chess Games by Meditating." And it was published in a Sep 6, 2011 blog titled "Meditation Workouts Raise Self-confidence and Reduce Pressure." It was also published in an Oct 1, 2011 blog titled "Brainwave Meditation: What It Can Do For You."
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You never know what you're going to find when you wander out into the streets of New York with a camera. While on my way to dinner at a local sushi restaurant last night, I stopped at a neighborhood playground on 99th Street and Amsterdam Avenue to see if there was a basketball game underway that I might photograph.
There was, but that was not the real "photo-op" that presented itself. Over at the side of the playground, there were some stone tables with chess boards laid out, and a few games of chess were underway. I watched a sequence of three games: a mother playing against a handsome, serious-looking man; then what appeared to be the mother's son, playing against the same man; and then the son playing against another young fellow who had stopped by to watch.
I took 165 photos, and with some difficulty winnowed it down to 40 "keepers". There's only so much variety that you can find in pictures of chess pieces on a board, but if you know anything about serious chess players, you'll know that what's most photogenic is their hands and their fingers as they grasp their chess piece at the beginning of a move, or their opponent's piece when they're about to remove it...
I've got lots of other stuff going on, so I'll only be able to edit and upload about 10 of these photos each day; it will take a few days to get all of them up here. Please be patient...