V: The View

       I like to walk with my camera.  I learned (from a certain very special photographer) that the best photos come if you look up or if you look down.  Consequently, when I travel, I tend to get a neck ache because I am constantly watching the skyline.  Sometimes my photos are artsy and/or goofy.  Sometimes they might appear bland or uninteresting and often what I found interesting was the color, the pattern or the implied texture.  Let me show you what I mean.

This is the Empire State Building, seen from the sidewalk across the street.
Not the view with
which you are familiar, heh?

I liked the angle on this one.  I am not sure where the tracks are going and when I look at this I feel ever so slightly dizzy and unstable.  Interesting feeling.

What got me about this photo was the layer of texture -
the delicate leaves in front of the sturdy brick buildings.

This is some building in NYC.  Does not the view seem entirely too surrealistic?

These tulips in Central Park appear so tender and soft, don't they?

This actually is sort of boring but I like the reflection (I like those a lot) and I like the way the
tree in the foreground contrasts with the buildings in the background

This was the view at dawn from our hotel room.  I liked the clouds most of all.

Glass on glass.  Need I say more?

Progress is being made on the World Trade Center Memorial.  Reflections, again, are the strongest draw here.. and a bit the old contrasted with the new.

Old and new.... business and spiritual (this is a block away from the real Wall Street)

I am captured by the light shining on the brick.  That's all.

Do you understand what I mean now when I talk about the view?  I like to take the customary photos of people and statues and ordinary stuff but I also enjoy catching the oddball stuff.  Which one do you like?