..same time, same place (give or take a few feet) where i got this..
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Category: Architecture
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promenade
..i’m almost done tagging, i wish i could’ve done this earlier on.. argh..
..here’s the brooklyn heights promenade.. best viewed supersized (click the thumbnail below)
..shifting gears from “earth week” (those nature-oriented photos i’ve been putting up lately) and going back to the thing i like most, concrete.. 😀 here’s another take of grand central terminal.. previous one is found here..
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helmsley
..a “normal” perspective of the helmsley building.. click here to read more about it and see a more “radical” perspective..
..i always seem to end my stroll sitting down in this place..
..same place where i shot this using a 15mm fisheye..
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roofies and chimneys
..part of the view we had from the place we stayed in St. George’s..
..a long exposure shot in front of the st. george’s police station.. try doing this in front of an NYPD station, let’s see what happens to you.. 😀
..from here, let’s go inside..
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institute of higher burnin’
5pointz.. this is how it looks like from jackson avenue.. an ever-changing canvas of urban art.. this was taken last 2007, i wonder how it looks like now..
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claustrophobe
..okay, back to bermuda..
..is this what your monday feels like? my advise.. go drink coffee.. lots and lots of it.. 😀
..just in front of the high cave on last friday’s post, there’s a bunker that serves as a mini-museum.. these are the narrow paths criss-crossing it.. not good if you’re a claustrophobe..
..what better way for a seasonal easter sunday post than this shot of the saint patrick’s cathedral a la moleman..
..amazing what a few steps and a different angle could do to change how an image looks.. the reason why i had this one tilted so high up is because of the scaffolding surrounding the cathedral, it just doesn’t look right..so for this one, i tried covering it up with light trails which seemed to do the trick.. (i guess)
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highbridge peeking
..taken at the same time and place as this one.. the Highbridge Water Tower, peeking through the treetops..
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scent back to trail
..if you look at THIS.. walk around to the right.. take a few steps.. turn right again.. take a few steps again.. turn around.. voila! you’ll see this.. the bermuda perfumery..
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scaffolds
..okay back to bermuda.. taken on a walk along front street, looking for some grub.. saw these pretty cool scaffolds that are a whole lot different than those i usually see in nyc.. that over there is the missus.. ;D
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a path, a park, and a bridge
..well, i guess i’m a sucker for bridges like some of you noticed.. 🙂
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chelsea styles
..taken on a stroll through chelsea..
*i’ve uploaded some images from this photoblog to panoramio and geo-tagged them if you’re curious where i take my photos..
..on a whim, here’s another one from the moleman series.. i could’ve named this the sewer rat series.. i think that sounds better.. hmm..
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porthole
..here’s something interesting i got from a morning walk around st. george’s.. 🙂
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guv’s alley
..well, back to bermuda.. here’s a pink church to brighten up the start of the work week..
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bow bridge
..i’m taking a break from the bermuda photos, so i’m going back to nyc..
..this here’s the bow bridge in ‘the lake’ @ central park..
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bay ridge shore
..for a landscape, i pretty much screwed up the settings for this one and wasn’t able to set the proper depth to attain the acceptable overall sharpness.. it still looked salvageable, so here it is.. distortion and all.. 😀
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no name lane
..i tawt i taw a puddy tat..
..click image below to see how this post’s title came to fruition..
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joseph stockdale
..home of Joseph Stockdale who brought the first printing press to the colony in 1783 and founded the Bermuda Gazette..
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doggie runway
..a few steps away, a doggie runway..
..look at the image below to see what i’m talking about.. 🙂
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nea’s cottage
..stayed close to home and walked around.. there was a lot of stuff to see..
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chug chug goes the tugboat
..how’s that for a title! 😀 now if only the chrysler was a bit taller, this’ll look like those AT&T “bars” advertisement, but the signal’s going down instead of up.. hmm..
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something’s aglow
..here’s a UFO USO surfacing from the east river..
*after reading mike’s comment, i changed UFO to USO because it makes perfect sense.. why hadn’t i thought of it.. maybe it’s because i’m off to bermuda again this weekend.. lol! ;D
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light of all
..it seems i’ve been bitten by the tweakies again.. the sun on the light post was just too good to pass up so i tweaked away (or at least attempted to.. 😀 )
..this here’s the arlington street church..
Arlington Street Church is a Unitarian Universalist church located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1729 as the “Church of the Presbyterian Strangers”, it became independent in 1787, taking on a Congregational model. In 1803, it called William Ellery Channing as its minister who defined “Unitarian Christianity” and launched the Unitarian movement, making the Arlington Street Church one of the first to define itself as Unitarian. On May 17, 2004, the church was the site of the first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the United States. (more)
..and, if you were wondering about that blue cast.. yeah.. it’s deliberate..
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park street
..boston’s subway, the oldest subway in america..
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saw
..just a house taken on a walk down some coastline in newport.. it’s overlooking the beach.. i bet it’s pricey..
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tilting the blues
..well, i’ve nothing much to say so, have fun with these specs..
City of New York
Manhattan Bridge
1901 – 1910
| Total Length of Bridge |
6855 Feet
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| Length of Main Span |
1470 Feet
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| Length of Each Side Span |
725 Feet
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| Width of Bridge |
120 Feet
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| Height of Towers, M.H.W. To Center Of Cables |
324.4 Feet
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| Depth of Trusses |
24 Feet
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| Diameter of Cables |
21 1/4 Feet
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| Breaking Strength of Each Cable |
30000 Tons
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| Weight of Steel Towers |
12340 Tons
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| Weight of Steel Cables |
8000 Tons
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| Weight of Steel Suspended Spans |
20000 Tons
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| Weight of Steel Approaches |
16600 Tons
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| Masonry-Tower Foundations |
78000 Cu. Yards
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| Masonry-Anchorages |
230000 Cu. Yards
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| Masonry-Approaches |
32700 Cu. Yards
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| Weight of Bridge Per Linear Foot |
24000 Pounds
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| Weight of Each Anchorage |
232000 Tons
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eiffel tagged
..haven’t gone out shooting for a while now, just stayed at home tagging some 453 gigs of photos.. i still have a bunch of goodies here so bear with me.. 🙂
..same place where i shot this..
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empire-zilla
..same place where i got this..
..i was just looking at this photo and instead of the empire state building, i was thinking of godzilla.. how weird.. oh well, time to hit the sack..
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100 reflection
..a reflection of this thingy over here..
..ahh, monday…
..for those of you who haven’t ventured inside the st. patrick’s cathedral on fifth avenue, here’s what it looks like..
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bermuda perfumery
..nothin’ much going on today.. here’s to smelling good.. ;D
..bermuda blue smells good..
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ticker tape
..signs of the times..
..money makes the world go round, the world go round.. la la la..
..here‘s something funny to watch this monday (and educational too.. i promise.. all that stuff about photographer’s rights etc. etc.)
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running man
..running man.. that’s a dance move, right?
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henry hudson
..the henry hudson bridge on the northern tip of manhattan.. there’s a boathouse there somewhere to the right.. i bet this looks great in spring.. or summer.. 🙂
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hooligans
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guggenheim
..like a giant eye staring down at you..
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the B of A
..taken from bryant park, the brand-spankin’ new bank of america building..
..and..um..
(**copy, pasted, edited from Ivar’s page.. hehe..) I got an award yesterday from a talented blogger/photographer, Ivar . So now its my turn to send this award on its way to someone else. The rules are simple, link to the one you got the award from, send it on to up to 7 others and let them know you gave them an award… At least that’s the rules as I know them 😉
..as what Ivar did, i just choosed randomly.. and to make things easy and fair, i just ran this bit of code below, and came up with these.. 😀
SELECT comment_author_url, count( * ) AS ctr FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_author_url <> '%blu%' GROUP BY comment_author_url HAVING ctr >50 ORDER BY rand( ) LIMIT 7
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blurry skates
..winter scenes..before winter ends..
..skating @ bryant park..
..tgif..
..have a great weekend..
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globe hotel
..and of course i heard about the US Airways crash in NYC.. of the eight flights i took, four of them were US Airways planes inbound/outbound of NYC.. eek!
..walking around the parish of St. George, here’s the Globe Hotel, which isn’t a hotel but is in fact a museum..
..another thing that i liked about Bermuda are the pastel-colored houses and structures.. they’re cute.. 😀
Bermuda National Trust Museum in the Globe Hotel
It was built by Governor Samuel Day c. 1700, on Government land using Government slaves and materials. When his administration ended he claimed it for his own, and a long court case began. Before its conclusion, however, Governor Day died in prison and never learned that his audacious claim had been successful.
During the American Civil War the Confederate agent, Major Norman Walker, had his office here, so it is the appropriate location for the ‘Rogues & Runners – Bermuda and the American Civil War’ exhibition.
..following Elaine‘s advise, I subtly HDR’d this 2-image pano.. 😀
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turquoise?
..i’m here in bermuda up until saturday and the weather isn’t cooperating.. aaargh.. the scenes and vistas that have tremendous potential turn out flat and boring, a series of bermuda images in mono aren’t what i was looking forward to but it seems that’s what i have to do to remedy the booring sky.. or maybe composites.. oh well, work with what you have..
..okay, impressions? hmm.. lemme see, well, the thing that really impressed me the most is the water’s clarity and color.. i mean, it’s really friggin’ clear!! ..and blue..
Why is the sea turquoise?
The sea around bermuda is very blue in comparison to many other places because phytoplankton levels are low. Phytoplanktons are microscopic plants which are found in the water. In abundance, phytoplankton can turn the sea colour green, brown or even red. The water around Bermuda is low in nutrients and therefore there is not a lot of phytoplankton.
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biloxi lighthouse
..walking westwards towards the biloxi lighthouse and saw these funny looking birds (i can’t name them) staring out at the sea.. the funny thing was that while approaching them, one bird (the leader, i suppose) would quack or squalk..or whatever birds do, and tell the others that an intruder is approaching them, so they would take to the air one by one (like a sheet of cloth) and slowly land farther away from me (again, like a sheet of cloth).. this went on for about 15 minutes, and i was still thinking of a way to capture the “flow”.. (**i’ve added an extra crappy post below of what i was trying to achieve) well, i gave up and screwed in a telephoto and ended up with this one instead..
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words of wisdom
..went off to biloxi, ms last saturday..took a walk along the beach before feeding the casino’s slot machines..
..i guess the reason why these signs were put up was because of some numbskulls who jumped and hit their head on something..
..whee! the “moleman” won a photo contest.. well, technically, i didn’t win it, someone else did.. but the photo that won the competition was “moleman-ey” / “moleman-esque” (or so i’d like to call it..) check out page 42 of popphoto’s january 2009 magazine.. if you don’t have it, then check it out here.. looks familiar? yep, leslie wargo noticed it a while ago too.. it’s the first and second photos of the “moleman series” taken last october.. and alex’s photo won the grand prize! whee! to alex’s credit, he took this shot last july so he had this idea before i did.. i was just a few months late.. wah!
..and while we’re on the topic of talking about the “moleman”, i’d say my main inspiration for starting the series goes out to archie from whateverland.com whose fishtown photo totally blew my mind and had me looking at NYC thru a fisheye.. 😀
..now on to the image, taken from lower manhattan’s zuccotti park, this here’s mark di suvero’s 70-foot-tall red steel sculpture Joie de Vivre, which anchors the park’s southeast corner.. it’s northwest corner is decorated by j. seward johnson’s Double Check, a dark bronze sculpture of a man with a briefcase, which sat in the original park for early 20 years and was relocated after 9/11.. i guess i was subconsciously thinking of archie’s spokes & legs shot when i saw this sculpture.. 😀
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fifth and 53rd
..i’m in a trippy mood..how cool is it to have trains buzzing by the walls..