I took these photos during a lunch hour on my cell phone. The grounds are awesomely impressive and tragically beautiful.
9/11 Memorial Plaza
Category: New York City
Helmsley Building Night Colors
The Helmsley Building is currently my favorite building to photograph. For the pass two years or so, it has been fully lit in beautiful colors in the evening.
From Wiki: The Helmsley Building is a 35-story building located at 230 Park Avenue between East 45th and East 46th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, which was built in 1929 as the New York Central Building, and was designed by Warren & Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal, in the Beaux-Arts style. Before the erection of the Pan Am Building – now the MetLife Building – this building stood out over the city’s second most prestigious avenue as the tallest structure in the great “Terminal City” complex around Grand Central.
Photo Challenge, Week 43: Spooky Halloween Infrared Animated GIF
Okay so this was a great learning opportunity! Actually, everything about photography is a learning experience for me still, but this challenge was intimidating – mostly because it included elements from Week 35: Translucent Outdoor Long Exposures that I didn’t have time to try, plus infrared photography which I was not familiar with. All that said, I think my first attempts with translucent long exposure in infrared came out okay.
What do you think?
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IKEA Water Taxi: Brooklyn to Manhattan
Following the light of the setting sun.
IKEA Brooklyn
Following the sun from the NYC Water Taxi
Following the sun from IKEA Brooklyn
Following the sun from IKEA Brooklyn
On the pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Bridge-gazing before heading home.
My ride for the evening
One of the main reasons I love the Water Taxi. Another reason: It’s free on the weekends.
Harlem Book Fair: Virtual Visit to Spirit Harvest Table
This is for everyone who would like to visit my table at the Harlem Book Fair, but is unable to. I will be offering a 10-15% discount at the Fair and that offer will extend to anyone who shops from this blog post using this code: WPHBF.
Here’s a link to my Square store: Order Online
Order Online
Hope see you virtually!
Photo Challenge, Week 15: Migrating Birds
This week turned out to be a great learning week. I know very little about birds, certainly nothing about migrating patterns. However, I got very nice shots (in my opinion) of two birds I don’t think I’ve seen before and another that I never considered magnificent until I attempted to photograph it flight.
As of this challenge, my new goal for action photography is to capture clear close-ups of birds in flight or with spread wings. I learned a lot on this one and gained a great deal of enthusiasm for wildlife photography.
My submission, second choice and another favorite from this week:
Submission for Photo Challenge, Week 15: Migrating Birds Photo: LaShawnda Jones for Spirit-Harvest.com
Practiced some new techniques on this edit Photo: LaShawnda Jones for Spirit-Harvest.com
2nd choice for Week 15 Photo: LaShawnda Jones for Spirit-Harvest.com
Bird Bath!
I asked for some pointers for capturing flight on the group page and went back out to shoot with the advice in mind. The birds were still too fast for me, but I managed to capture drops of water as a bird bathed. #score! 🙂
Majesty
This great egret was minding her own business when I tried to get close enough to photograph her. This is quite grainy, but it’s the best shot I got before she flew away.
Some just because shots:
Photo Challenge, Week 7: Outdoor – Wind
Week 7’s challenge was “outdoor: wind”. I immediately thought of a smoke stack in Times Square and hoped to avoid flags! Caught the smoke stack but one flag shot won the day. 🙂
First subject of the day for this weeks’ challenge.
I was aiming for the smoke stack and didn’t even notice this magnificent poser until I lowered my camera. 🙂
A smoke stack in Times Square was my first thought for subject for this challenge. This was the best capture I got.
I shot this BEFORE I saw Kingsmen this afternoon. Now I think it’s even more of a badass shot! My submission for the week.
Unlucky in love? It was sunny outside, but editing allowed artistic license.
I think he heard me clicking away behind him. The wind was playing with his hair. Tried to capture a few women, but he was by far the best unknowning model
Flat grass = wind + snow?
I thought Yahoo! would win me over from the Badass shot. Girls Rock!
How did that bag get up in the tree?
