Recently in New York Category
Shot at the show for Allison Parris.
I've created a BIG slideshow for broadband viewers -- open full screen for best results:
http://karlo.org/slideshows/ap-runway-2009-02-17/
The slideshow is the best way to view my images from the event. They really need to be viewed large, and in high resolution, to get the most out the shots, mostly because of the textures in the clothing.
For those on slower connections, try the Flickr set.
20 second long exposure, with a graduated ND filter on the lower half of the image (not that I can tell, frankly.) I love the Flatiron building -- Broadway's meandering path produces a lot of the city's more interesting buildings.
Headed out to The Gates installation in Central Park this morning, very early, to try to take some photos before there crowds arrived. I'll be putting them up on the photolog over the next week or so, but I've also posted some of the raw shots to flickr.
Apparently I'm not the only one who really likes the new American Express ad, "Tribeca", featuring Robert Deniro talking about New York City, reportedly direct by Martin Scorcese. If you haven't seen them on television (I'm not sure they're running outside the New York media market) then you can watch them online here.
We've had thunderstorm after thunderstorm here in New York tonight, sweeping in from New Jersey. The two shots above are of strikes hitting on the NJ edge of the Hudson.
Photographing lightning can be amazingly fustrating. You're caught between issues of low light, high noise, and te need to both maximize the image but capture as wide an angle as possible (so you get it on film.) It took me forever to get a couple of strikes, I missed most, and now I have the camera set up taking photos once a minute automatically, just to see if it gets lucky.
Update: Chris Burrows from Gothamist Weather took a great multi-fork picture of the same storm. Shows what you can do when you're not too lazy to go outside.
The Times has a piece today on trailer parks being swept away by urban development.
Given that our apartment isn't any bigger than a mobile home, today is one of those times when I wish I could disconnect the utilities and drive it somewhere else. Our adjacent neighbor is having a loud and ongoing war with their upstairs neighbor, with one side's stereo matched by the upstairs side apparently dropping what sounds like a bowling ball on the floor to express their grievances. About a half hour ago, they escalated into face to face confrontation -- charmingly, in the hallway outside my front door. Ah, the joys of apartment living. Those trailer park residents just don't know what they're missing out on.
