Chelsea Market
After a time away, here is my entry for Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge.
For return, I have chosen this amazing door. A bit futuristic door from the Chelsea Market. This market is just a short walk from the Hudson River in the area of Manhattan known as the Meatpacking District. Chelsea Market has become in just fifteen years one of the greatest indoor food halls of the world, with more than thirty-five vendors purveying everything from soup to nuts, wine to coffee, cheese to cheesecake. Attracting 6 million national and international visitors annually, it is one of the most trafficked, and written-about, destinations of any kind in New York City. Chelsea Market is a neighborhood market with a global perspective.
Thanks as always to Norm Frampton for hosting this excellent challenge.
Yaffa Cafe
Yaffa Cafe
Graffiti found in New York City.
97 St Marks Pl
New York, NY 10009
b/t Avenue A & 1st Ave
East Village.
Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal, New York
Chinatown
New York
New York
Black power
Black power
Photography taken in New York City this summer.
Three beautiful black girls are walking Broadway street under the gaze of the other pedestrians.
Brooklyn bridge
Weekly Photo Challenge. Connected: Brooklyn bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.
More info: Wikipedia
Brooklyn bridge
Tandem Bike
Tandem Bike
The tandem bicycle or twin is a form of bicycle designed to be ridden by more than one person. The term tandem refers to the seating arrangement (fore to aft, not side by side), not the number of riders. A bike with two riders side by side is called a sociable.
Patents related to tandem bicycles date from the late 1890s.
More info: Wikipedia
Night backlight. Madrid
Night backlight
Extreme night backlight taken in Madrid.
Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, author and occasional actor. He is best known for writing Kids and for writing and directing Spring Breakers, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Mister Lonely. His film Trash Humpers premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won the main prize, the DOX Award, at CPH:DOX in November 2009. His film Spring Breakers was released in 2013.
Pedaling under palm trees
Pedaling under palm trees
Claude Denson Pepper (1900 – 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly.
Taking a break
Taking a break
Richelle is native to the Pacific Northwest, born in Utah but raised and residing in Washington State. She currently lives with her husband and three sons somewhere in a compromise between country and city living. She completed two bachelors degrees through Eastern Washington University: Liberal Studies and Natural Science / Mathematics Education.
The Championships, Wimbledon
Wimbledon: The Championships
The Championships, Wimbledon or simply Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments (Majors), the others being the Australian Open, the French Open (Roland Garros) and the US Open. Since the Australian Open shifted to hard court in 1988, Wimbledon is the only Major still played on grass, the game’s original surface, which gave the game its original name of “lawn tennis”.
These photographs show a crowd of people every year go to see this event.
The Championships, Wimbledon
Everything is now ready to start today the 129th edition of the championship.
The Championships, Wimbledon
London street at nigh
Reflections on Photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Manufactured” or staged photography does not concern me. And if I make a judgement it can only be on a psychological or sociological level. There are those who take photographs arranged beforehand and those who go out to discover the image and seize it.
For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant wich, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder.
This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry -it is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
One must always take photographs with the greatest respect for the subject and for oneself.
from The mind’s eye.
Writings on Photography and Photographers by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004).
Do you agree with Cartier-Bresson?. Maybe you agree on some things. I like his words but I am not so strict in some ways. I recognize that the great French photographer had thought a lot about his photography, its justification and meaning. And his photography was consistent with the way he saw it. But I admire a lot of people who “take photographs arranged beforehand”. In photography, I think there is room for all styles and I love a good photography whatever style. We’ll talk more about it soon.
Today’s photography it is not an easy photo, it isn’t a beautiful flower or a wonderful landscape, but for me it could be a good photo, if it weren’t for the average photographer. ..
Venice street view
This candid photo of street in Venice is nothing new, but I think it’s always nice to revisit the issue.
I found the scene so beautiful and suggestive that I shoot the photo instantly.
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