Tag Archives: New York City

May 17, 2013

5-17-13 Spring Has Truly (Finally) Arrived

It was a busy day yesterday. Before Kathy’s birthday dinner, I took a long walk down the Hudson and before that? Put up the first food of the season. Ramps and Asparagus.

2 comments | tags: Asparagus, Canning, Hudson River, New York City, Pickling, postadsy2013, Preserving, Ramps | posted in Canning, Photography

May 13, 2013

5-13-13 I’ve Got Nothing To Say But It’s Ok – Weekly Photo Challenge: Patterns

By Robert S Johnson

New York City, Central Park, February 2005 – The Gates by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Boro Walk

Find The Weekly Photo Challenge - here

A few other views.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern | Mike Hardisty Photography

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – “PATTERN” | soumyav

Weekly Photo Challenge: Patterns | wordsvisual

Knitting in the register – with apologies to Charles Dickens | Menomama3′s Blog

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern | An Unlikely Gypsy…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern | Platypi Photography

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern | Picturing England

WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE – “PATTERN” | soumyav

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern | Lee Castillio

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern | i play camera

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern | Touch of Insanity

Weekly Photo Challenge : Pattern | Rek ayo Rek

Damascene Work in Toledo, Spain | ilargia64

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern | The Sleepless Sessions

10 comments | tags: Art, Central Park, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Hudson River, New York City, postaday2013, Public Art, The Gates, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

May 9, 2013

5-9-13 Back Through The Years

By Robert S Johnson

I am finally working on the Quotidian Hudson Book Project again. This has caused me to go back through the blog from day 1. I look at the first picture I put up and scratch my head a bit. I know what I was trying to say with it but I can’t remember if I actually thought it was any good or used it because it fit the theme.

1st Blog pic-original

Today, I can say that I do not think it is a good picture. It represents the blog to some extent but it is flat and doesn’t really say anything. If I was able to go back in time and reshoot this I would get a lot closer and reframe it completely. I can’t even get this crop where I would want to be but the concept of the image is closer. (Because it is cropped down so tightly it is blurry and pixel short.)

Hudson - NYC We live, we learn, we move on…

4 comments | tags: Hudson River, Kayak, Learning, Let's Do the Time Warp Again, New York City, postaday2013, The Band, West Harlem Piers Park, You Can't Go Home Again | posted in Photography

May 8, 2013

5-8-13 A Long Time Coming – Sandy

By Robert S Johnson

Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running,

Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,

Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,

Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,

Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering,

On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,

Where through the murk the easterly death-wind breasting,

Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,

(That in the distance! is that a wreck? is the red signal flaring?)

Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,

Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,

Along the midnight edge by those milk-white combs careering,

A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,

That savage trinity warily watching.

Walt Whitman

I may have mentioned that I went to Coney Island last Saturday…

While it wasn’t hit as hard as the Rockaways, Staten Island or parts of the Jersey Shore it still took a beating.

Sadly, six months later one of the true Coney landmarks is still not back in business.

2 comments | tags: Coney Island, Hudson River, Nathan's Hot Dogs, New York City, postaday2013, Rockaway Queens, Superstorm Sandy, Walt Whitman | posted in Photography

May 7, 2013

5-7-13 Brighton Beach – The Elevated

By Robert S Johnson

After we left Coney on Saturday we headed to Brighton Beach and had a great dinner at a Russian Restaurant (I showed a picture of it the other day). I used our time there to do some twilight shooting of the Elevated.

4 comments | tags: Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Coney Island, Elevated Train, Hudson River, New York City, postaday2013, Russian | posted in Photography

May 5, 2013

5-5-13 Cinco de Mayo (Has Nothing To Do With This) Weekly Photo Challenge – From Above

By Robert S Johnson

The weekly photo challenge is From Above.

You could think of it this way…

or maybe this way…

or this?

see a bunch more viewpoints below.

21 comments | tags: Above, Cinco De Mayo, Mid-Hudson Bridge, New York City, postaday2013, The Hudson River, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

May 4, 2013

5/4/13 Coney Island Boro Walk

By Robert S Johnson

In the middle of a borough walk through Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
This is from earlier in the walk.

Leave a comment | tags: borough, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Hudson River, New York City, postaday2013 | posted in phoneography

April 30, 2013

4-30-13 Chinatown

By Robert S Johnson

On Sunday I was the Teaching Assistant for a Borough Walk through Chinatown. The photographer leading it was Alan Chin. The man is an amazing fountain of knowledge about Chinatown (and a damn fine photographer – check out his website, here).

We started in Columbus Park and ended up at The Nom Wah Tea Parlor. I have not had time to work on many of the pictures but here is a brief taste.

2 comments | tags: Alan Chin, Borough Walk, Chinatown, Columbus Park, Hudson River, ICP, New York City, postaday2013 | posted in Photography

April 25, 2013

4-25-14 Travel Theme: Contrast

By Robert S Johnson

Ailsa’s theme this week is contrast.

“I call to the airplanes,” cried the bridge. “I flash to the ships of the air. But you are still master of the river. Quick, let your light shine again. Each to his own place, little brother!”

“The Little Red Lighthouse and The Great Grey Bridge” by Hildegarde Swift

“When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: “Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands—
But the scene is grey.”

Stephen Crane

I remember taking a bath
and wondering why Coney Island
was so mean in the winter,
and how long it would take
to walk there in the Spring’

Puma Perl

And I’ve seen you at the corners and cafes it seems

Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme

Richard Thompson

So, what do you think? Did I fulfill the assignment?

As always a few other views of the subject:

Red and Black…(a New Interpretation) | ilargia64

Weekly Travel theme: Contrast « Lagottocattleya

Travel Theme: Contrast | Northwest Frame of Mind

Contrasts | authenticallyannamarie

Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Contrast | Stephen Kelly Creative

“Rustle of autumn” | Have you ever…

Street of Liverpool | Le Drake Noir

Travel Theme: Contrast | Geophilia

Down through the ages | Beyond the Brush

Travel theme: Contrast | baD.I.N.K.adink

Weekly Travel Theme: Contrast | The Land Slide Photography

Travel Theme: Contrast | MythRider

Travel Theme: Contrast | The Backpack Monologues

Travel Theme: Contrast | To Mother Earth, with Love

Travel Theme: Contrast | A New Day

Have a seat | Beyond the Brush Photography

Travel Theme: Contrast | All The Worlds A Stage

Travel Theme: Contrast | I did it … for Johnny

http://www.ceephotography.com/2013/04/24/travel-theme-contrast/

Contrast Down Under | Becoming Aussie

Travel Theme: Contrast | K2inCanada’s Blog

Travel Theme: Contrast | Canadiantravelbugs’s Blog

Travel theme: Contrast | Stefano Scheda

Travel Theme: Contrast | weird & cool stuff seen while out & about

Conspicuous Contrast | The Urge To Wander

http://brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/up-all-night/

3 comments | tags: Coney Island, Hudson River, New York City, postaday2013, Puma Perl, Red hair and black leather, Richard Thompson, Stephen Crane, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography, Travel Theme

April 24, 2013

4-24-13 – W 155th Street – Skaters!

By Robert S Johnson

After finishing up the shoots for New York Cares and walking to the Bronx I headed to The Hudson. I stopped at Trinity Cemetery to pay my respects to James Audubon who is buried in the graveyard at the Church of the Intercession in the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum at 155th Street and Broadway. Then I continued on. The west end of 155th Street splits in two just after Broadway. One part is level and meets Riverside Drive. The other part is one of the steepest hills in Manhattan and goes down to the walkway across the West Side Highway. Kids and Skaters love to hang out there. I have seen people skateboarding there frequently but I had never gone by on one of the first warm spring Saturdays. Below is a slide show. Under that you will find the individual pictures.

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