A random building on 15th street across from Zeckendorff Towers. NYC is so varied you can find interesting patterns, colors, architectural details, and contrasts on almost every street. The on a building that seems to love red and white. Yes, I take a lot of these sorts of photos, but what is photography but turning the ordinary into interesting and varied art objects.
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Just a few snaps of street scenes in Sacramento. Not candids, but actual photos of the street with the fall leaves. I was really taken by the contrast of the concrete, metal conduit, and freshly fallen leaves. Olympus E-M1 mk 2 with the ever-mounted 12-40/2.8 Zuiko lens
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In Sacramento, we were at the CIM Marathon and this was a railing that stuck out to me as interesting. I think it’s very interesting the things you find as a photographer. I guess if you’ve taken photos for 48 years as I have, I’ve gotten tired of the normal sunsets, flowers, or pets. I tend to look for interesting subjects in mundane places. Given that I work from my home, I don’t get out as much as when I worked in NYC, so wondering around places within a few miles of my home can be boring. It can also
Went to the old Bethlehem steel plant in PA with the Essex County club on Jan 2, 2023 and was introduced to this very cool place. It’s an old steel mill, the one that essentially supplied the steel that built much of the WW2 ships and cities throughout the Northeastern US. Once had tens of thousands of people working on a huge campus. It’s decline started in the early 70’s when the lost the bid for the steel for the World Trade Center. Much of the site has been torn down, but what remains are four gigantic blast furnaces. The
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It’s 12/31/22, New Year’s Eve, and I get up and I remark that the fog is real thick today, something VERY unusual here in North-Central New Jersey. It requires a cold front pushing ocean moisture up on top of us and some cool air leaking in to condense the copious amounts of water vapor in the air into fog. My wife says “You should go take photos of this”. I thought Yes, I should, because it will be gone in a flash. Well it wasn’t gone. It lasted many hours and I wish I had gone an hour or two
In Sacramento, just a stucco building with corners of different colors that came together with a neat pattern. Olympus EM1 12-40/2.8
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I was a rare passenger on the interstate in Sacramento attending the California International Marathon and was able to tune my long exposure and technique. This was 3 sec at 1/16 at ISO 800 on my Olympus E-M1. I really liked this one. I probably took 30-40 shots and these were the best 3.
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Amazing what you can find, even sitting at Bloomindales with your family eating ice cream. Saw this mannequin sitting there on a bold checkerboard floor at the mall and thought: “That’d make a neat picture.” So I took it and did a bit of work to remove some distracting elements and ended with a keeper. I tried in in Black and White, but the little bit of color in the mannequin’s feet and shoes that helped, so I left it. Olympus E-M1.1 with 12-50 kit lens
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Walking around the wet, wet streets of Old Town Sacramento in early December at the California International marathon, I saw this nice assemblage of wet reflections and shadows. Taken in color but desaturated in Lr. Olympus E-M1, 12-40/2.8 Zuiko.
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From Versailles, France at the Palace. There are a bunch of ”groves” on the palace grounds that have different themes. One that I was able to see in May when I was there was The Enceladus Grove. It has all these trellises that had superb patterns. I wish I had been there longer to explore, but family vacations offer little time for casual photography. This one was taken on a cloudy day with my IR converted Olympus E-M5.1 with a 720nm filter.
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I’ve been very happy about this series of photos that I took in Seneca Falls, NY. For anyone who doesn’t know this unassuming town in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate NY was supposedly the inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls in Frank Capra’s famous 1946 movie ”It’s a Wonderful Life”. There is dispute about it, but it’s a nice story nonetheless. The bridge that Clarence the angel jumps off of to entice Jimmy Stewart to save him is also supposedly modeled on the green bridge on Bridge Street in town. The actual bridge in the movie was re-constructed
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Number 2 taken out the window of a New York City taxi. Again, I love the colors and abstract nature.
