Tag: skyline

Titans

Central Park South, New York

One of the beauties of Central Park used to be the way you could be isolated from the surrounding city, not even able to see the buildings from many spots. Greedy developers and craven politicians have put paid to that. Here’s the new Central Park south skyline: needle-nose buildings of empty luxury apartments, used by mostly foreign oligarchs and petty despots to park and/or launder their ill-gotten gains.

Skyline

Central Park, New York

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.

Manhattan Skyline Impressionism

Manhattan from the New Jersey Turnpike

Here’s an interesting set of images with a pointillist look. They were taken from the window of the car passing along the New Jersey Turnpike (or one of it’s many tributaries – I was not driving). They were mostly taken at a shutter speed of around 1/200th second that almost stopped motion and in the gloomy light forced the auto-ISO very high creating digital noise. I used Fuji’s Velvia film simulation, which is a landscape-oriented, vivid saturation level, boosted the grain and texture and a little anti-haze on a couple of them, leading to the overall painterly pointillist effect. Click any image to see them all full sized.