A beautiful autumn day in Central Park looking across The Lake at the buildings along Central Park West. The scene was captured on the iPhone 4S and post-processed on the iPhone with an app from Nik Software called Snapseed. I highly recommend the app for your iPhone or iPad. Very intuitive and fun to play with the different treatments from vintage styles to grunge to black & white. It’s quick and easy to add some ‘pop’ to your images.
The biggest October snowstorm in New York City’s history covered parts of the tri-state area with anywhere from 2 inches to 20 inches of the white stuff. Central Park set a record for both the date and the month of October with 2.9 inches of snow. West Milford, N.J., about 45 miles northwest of New York City, had received 19 inches of snow by early Sunday.
Saturday marked just the fourth October day with measurable snowfall in Central Park since record-keeping began 135 years ago, the National Weather Service said.
More from the NY Daily News and the New York Times.
Record-breaking October snow falls along Columbus Avenue on New York City’s Upper West Side.
The crisp mornings. Folks wearing jackets and sweaters. The leaves beginning to change colors. All those things point to the seasons are changing in New York City. Fall has arrived once again.
October brings a change to the leaves in New York’s Central Park as we enter the Fall season.
The slightly chilly mornings and clear skies make for some brilliant sunrises over Manhattan. Here are a few photos from my walk about the neighborhood this autumn morning.
The October sunrise hitting the buildings along Central Park West in New York City.
I had the opportunity earlier this year to work with fitness model Eh Moo La a couple of times when he traveled to New York City from his home in Chicago. You can’t tell it from his photographs, but Moo is a rather private and shy person. Recently, New York photographer Mark Edwards scored an exclusive interview with Moo. Here’s what we found out from that interview…
Moo is originally from the Asian country of Burma, now officially known as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. He’s 25 years old and stands at 5’8″, weighs 140 lbs. with a 29″ waist.
As you can tell, Moo is a little fanatical about his workout. He started his workout / fitness program only two years ago.
As for his exercise routine… “I work out at the gym about four to five days a week, one to two hours each. Once I’m at the gym, I try to hit almost every body part and take no more than one-minute breaks in between. That’s really gotten me shredded and lean. Plus I’m not there to chat, so anything longer than a two-minute break gets me bored and I don’t feel like I’m productive. On the days I don’t have energy, I’ll sometimes start my workout by running for 10 to 20 minutes and that warms up my body; then I’ll lift for another hour or more. Lately I’ve been trying to bulk up mass, so I’ve started focusing on one or two body parts. On those days I try to hit hard the one or two muscle groups, such as tries or chest, with the maximum weight almost from the beginning of the workout. I start and stay heavy instead of gradually working up the weight because if I do it for too long, the muscle tires out and I can’t get to that heavier weight.” he told Mark Edwards.
To get to the Whole Foods grocery store in New York’s Time Warner Center… you have to go down escalators to the lower level of the mall. This is a shot hanging over the railing from the fourth level of the mall looking straight down at the escalators and the food court tables.
The path to Whole Foods from four stories up.
The first night of September was beautiful on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. 70°F, no humidity… a perfect fall evening during the last days of summer.
Traffic zooms down Broadway past the 72nd Street subway station.
Midnight along Columbus Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and all is quiet.
The streets on the Upper West Side of Manhattan were wet and empty as Hurricane Irene arrived Sunday morning.
No cars or pedestrians along New York City’s Columbus Avenue Sunday morning as Irene arrived.
An amazing sunset reflected against the clouds over New York City’s Columbus Avenue inspired me to experiment with something new for me… HDR. HIgh Dynamic Range imaging lets the photographer capture a wide range of highlights, shadows and colors using a several images merged together and manipulated with photo processing software. This image is a merge of 5 frames to create the final product.
A quiet August sunset along Columbus Avenue on New York City’s Upper West Side.
More experiments to follow. :-)
Water towers are as New York as yellow taxicabs, and just as omnipresent.
A distinctive feature of residential (and many commercial buildings) in New York City is the presence of wooden roof-mounted water towers, which were required on all buildings higher than six stories by city ordinance in the 19th century because the municipal water pipes could not withstand the extraordinarily high pressure necessary to deliver water to the top stories of high-rise buildings.
New York City requires that all buildings higher than six stories be equipped with a rooftop water tower. In modern times, the towers have become fashionable in some circles. As of 2006, the neighborhood of Tribeca requires water towers on all buildings, whether or not they are being used. Two companies in New York build water towers, both of which are family businesses in operation since the 19th century.
The original water tower builders were barrel makers who expanded their craft to meet a modern need as buildings in the city grew taller in height. Even today, no sealant is used to hold the water in. The wooden walls of the Water Tower are held together with cables but leak through the gaps when first filled. As the water saturates the wood it swells, the gaps close and become impermeable.
The rooftop water towers store 5,500 gallons to 11,000 gallons of water until it is needed in the building below. The upper portion of water is skimmed off the top for everyday use while the water in the bottom of the tower is held in reserve to fight fire. When the water drops below a certain level, a pressure switch, level switch or float valve will activate a pump or open a public water line to refill the water tower.
Water tower info from Wikipedia.
Check out Everything You Wanted to Know About Where We Get Our Water on the Upper West Side neighborhood blog… WestSideRag.com.
It was a wet Sunday on the Upper West Side of Manhattan… but the weekend brunch crowd still ventured out onto the sidewalks at 73rd Street and Columbus looking for food.
According to the NY Daily News… New York broke an all-time record for a one-day rainfall Sunday as up to 8 inches of water soaked the city, snarling trains and flooding roadways. By 9 p.m., 7.7 inches of rain had fallen at Kennedy Airport.
It was the most recorded there in a single day since the National Weather Service began keeping records 116 years ago.
Technical Note: Image was processed using Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro 3.0 module and specifically the Tonal Contrast tool.
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He's now living in New York City working as a portfolio development photographer... working with models and actors hoping to find that big break in The Big Apple.
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