109th St and Manhattan Avenue, New York
109th St and Manhattan Avenue, New York

There was a Church-sponsored street fair going on and this woman was enjoying it from a slight distance while fanning herself in the heat. She smiled as I passed and I asked if I could take here picture with the fan – I was hoping to get the fanning motion in the picture but she put it down in her lap for this quick portrait.

Morningside Park Redux

112th and Manhattan Ave, New York
112th and Manhattan Ave, New York

Regular readers will remark that this is my third weekend photographing this vista (with more to come). I’m finding it a hauntingly beautiful view, especially under a leaden Winter sky, but fiendishly difficult to capture its raw, subdued colors and majesty.