with apologies to Truman Capote
Diamond Iceberg
Category: skyline
Nightwing
Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall
Artichoke Pizza
Water Towers, Snow
Post-Covid, nasty weather’s been keeping me isolated indoors a lot. It may be back to the archives by tomorrow. In the meantime here’s another snow shot, of another snow storm, that was languishing in my backup camera.
Winter Erections
That’s all for now, folks!
Snowy Water Towers, Redux
Snow
The theme for the next 24 hours will be the blizzard here at the beginning of the week.
Skyline
Excuse the obscenity, but it’s hard to think of these obscene new erections as anything but pencil-dick buildings, leveraging hideous loopholes in NY real estate law to enrich developers and allow Russian and other kleptocratic regimes’ oligarchs to hide and protect their ill-gotten wealth in empty pieds à terre, through layers of shell corporations, whilst blighting Central Park’s skyline.
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
The New Long Island City
Crossed Wires over Manhattan
One More, From the Road
Another Roadside Attraction
Beach Balcony Sunset
Dusk
Water Towers
An iconic Manhattan site, water towers and tanks are so much easier to photograph from rooftops, with a tele-lens compressing many of them into a single shot.
Hurray for Essential Workers
Upper West Side, New York
At 7 pm New Yorkers have been going to their windows and balconies to make noise and cheer all the essential workers, medical experts and personnel, grocers, delivery-people, etc, who make life under Covid bearable, possible, even. Most evenings I can’t see where all the noise is coming from (my wife and I joke that it’s applause for our cooking as we’re usually sitting down to dinner when it happens). From my rooftop eyrie a week and a half ago I got to see it from a whole new perspective.
Click any image to see them all enlarged.
Upper West Rooftops
Some fantastice views from a rooftop on the Upper West Side on a beautiful Spring evening. Continuing to shoot with the tele-zoom at 200mm and enjoying the distance-compressing effects. Note the people in other rooftop gardens in all of the shots.
Socializing, Covid-style
Friends of ours were given access to a roof garden while friends of theirs are away. We had an awkward dance getting up the stairs while staying 6-feet apart but on the roof it was easy and the masks came off. Nicest time I’ve had all virus-season.