These people were gracious enough to let me take a candid photo, I am no portrait photographer, and rarely take pictures of people, especially their faces and certainly never strangers…..

I have shot this a few times…..still not what I want….next time, if the garden survives, better framing..

I like the geometry of this shot, the squares (a little keystone correction of course) and the color blocking. Reminds me of a paintings we saw later that trip at The Met by John Kane or Edward Hopper (https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5c964004815512b35d9ba67e/1604090341172-BMP96AATACO7XXBF09B2/TheMet_DSF6282Sep+27+2020JPEG+Quality+98.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg)

I think this came out pretty good for no tripod….not to say I didnt manipulate a bit to bring the sky and the water out more…..but composition and focus are decent and what I intended to capture with the mirrored reflection.

Shooting from Spring St and Cleveland Place into the late afternoon setting sun illuminating the classical tower of the Old Police Headquarters….

I love shots like this from the middle of a NYC street. Very little manipulation just a bit here and there for color and straightening. The perspective, the fire escapes, the brilliant light, love it.

This mural caught my eye for its color, I tried to get the foreground green utility box out of focus but in frame. Turns out a few months later, the mural was replace with a tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Heavily manipulated, tightly cropped, trying to bring out the drama of the setting sun illuminating the top of the David Dinkins building, with the new Freedom Tower in the background.

Experiment in masking and raising visibility of small details like the signs….

Almost as it came off the Fuji X-E3, the purple hour light as a seen from the balcony of my cousin Emma’s lower Manhattan/Chinatown apartment on Park Row.

Throw away shot but cropped I kind of like it.

A closeup detail of stacks of empty paper flour bags outside a Chinatow/LES bakery. I attempted to bring out the texture and play of shadow and light in the stacks and folds.

I liked the masses and the varied geometry of the intersecting volumes. Heavily retouched.

Throw away shot, straight into the sun, this was an attempt at seeing how much I could rescue the shot in post-processing.

Throw away shot, another attempt at experimenting with how much I can recover in post-processing. This was heavily over exposed and under contrast, I tried to pull the sky back down to a nice blue while not losing the skyline and the water…..a bit more work on the water might help but the rest of the skyline is so washed out it wasn’t worth the additional effort to mask and manipulate.

First time capturing water sprays successfully using high speed rapid shooting (on the X-E3).

Cute gallery in SOHO, the art reminds me heavily of Pushead from the 1980s era, especially the advert for Rough Trade….what you can find on the net is amazing….http://pollutedbrain.blogspot.com/2008/12/social-unrest-ratcage-roughtrade-gang.html

Mural on the back of MS131 and the Emma Lazarus High School, on Eldridge Street, by BKFOXX. It turns out its directly across from the birth place of of Ira Gershwin on 60 Eldridge Street. https://gershwininnewyork.wordpress.com/gershwin-homes/

We are kind of done with street art and graffiti shots, but this artist (Buff Monster) has a lot of well done, untagged pieces. https://www.buffmonster.com/gallery?pgid=jjr1xg24-243b48d8-b65c-11e8-8c97-12efbd0b6636

We were fortunate that Dominique’s favorite hand bag store reopened for in person shopping just before we arrived during the COVID 19 2020 shutdowns/openings. I have tried a few times to shoot the neon sign and I think this time, a few versions came out ok. This is a closeup of the back of the sign itself, picked from multiple shots to deal with the inherent flicker in the neon.

This is another shot of the Min and Mon neon sign, this time trying to bring the reflections in the storefront window into focus. Heavily masked to bring the faint outlines of the orange and the even fainter double reflection/refraction of the blueish eye contours up to visibility….

I was so trying to frame Dominique, the bag and the Min and Mon neon sign, all reflected from the mirror….but I failed to get the bag in frame using my fixed lens :-(

I don’t usually photograph people. I don’t know what makes a good portrait of a person. I know I will get some flak for this shot. It was not taken to insult or denigrate or celebrate, it is simply a slice of life shot during a walk through COVID19 2020 New York City.

Tight focus, I couldn’t quite get it square because of obstructions in the street and people on the sidewalks. But its a tight depth of field, which I intended with the FIRE ALARM sign blurring but the pipes and retaining clips and ties in sharp focus.