I was in New York for a few days - one part business, two parts family - and my sister's partner Graham let us follow him in to Manhattan to steal a peek from his penthouse studio (he's an artist, no less!) in midtown. Well, it was New York in March, so even though we had SoCal weather the day before, Sunday was most definitely New Yorkish. It was pretty hairy outside, lots of rain and a really shitty view, but I came away with a couple of decent panoramas, especially this one with Empire State Building slightly remodeled by my unfortunate choice of focal lengths.

It took a pretty gothic S-curve to restore the contrast to this image - it was really pouring and windy out there on the edge of the roof.

Self portrait in Times Square, NYC

Central Park, growing out of a rock like hairs from a mushroom cap.

Looking in on Times Square in New York City

New York Vertical 1
Manhattan, New York, NY
May 7, 2005

When I was in New York in May I put in an hour or two of photography a day at least; and by that I mean I spent an hour or two actually clicking the shutter - pretty much all of my free time was related to getting me to or from a location I wanted to shoot, or just wandering around shoulders loaded with gear gawking, or working on the pictures I took. I'm finally getting some of the panos done

New York, being a tall, not wide, city is a tough subject for normal panoramic shots. I thought I'd go vertical this trip, as in this photo - composed of six images shot one on top of the other until I was literally bending over backwards shooting behind me.

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