As promised here are more pictures. For those who have been to the Pentagon Memorial in DC don’t the benches at the High Line remind you of it? I really like the design of what I saw so far as I’ve only been through half of the walk. Everything is so sleek! There is even a little viewing area where u can sit and look up 10th avenue.
Went with a few friends to the recently opened High Line. It used to be old abandoned elevated train tracks in lower Manhattan and the city renovated it to become a public space. We started walking on the High Line at 20th street till we reached 14th street, which is about halfway to the end. They were still doing construction but for the most part, the area looks so nice. I still have other pictures to show but here are a few now, i’ll update again later on in another post.
Well since taking the sofobomo picture of Times Square, the city has decided to block off traffic in a few parts of Manhattan. The sofobomo picture was probably the first picture of Times Square I have taken for my flickr stream. I normally try to avoid that part of Manhattan since there is so many people there you can barely walk let alone try to take a picture. Because of the new traffic pattern, I actually got the urge to go and check it out for myself.
I’m not too impressed with it actually, the only perk is that there is more room to walk and you don’t really have to be worried that you would get hit by a car in certain parts of Times Square. All there were in the small areas were lawn chairs for people to sit and some of them were already breaking. For some reason I can visualize a lot of homeless people taking over these spots in the middle of the night, sleeping on the lawn chairs. Then when day comes a tourist comes and sleeps on that same exact lawn chair, it sort of amuses me in a very weird way.
Since the traffic pattern is relatively new and there are no dividers yet, they actually used traffic cones surrounding the public areas! So classy!! I know this is all temporary, but it just looks so bad! Hopefully they change it all soon (aka FIX IT ALL).
You can read more about it in this NY times article.
Finally my book is done! Here is a link to the project page on the sofobomo website. My writing is a bit horrible and there might be many errors in it! I’m slowly finding some spelling errors and fixing it so please bear with me
I had a lot of fun doing this challenge, though I would have like to add more pictures to it. The weather during the 31 days was absolutely horrible. Raining almost every other day made it hard for me to get out and take pictures since my gear is not weather proof. I also had to buy a few filters to aid in getting longer exposures, without those I would not have been able to get some of my shots.
I did run some pictures through topaz adjust because it did not have the contrast that I would like and I felt they looked better after it. Some of you might not like the idea that not all the pictures were post processed but the reason why I have it like that is some pictures just looked good straight out of camera.
Out of all 35 locations that I went to, I feel like Central Park was definitely one of my best pictures that I took.
So last Sunday I went to a meetup with a few photographers to Roosevelt Island. During the meetup everyone started to exchange business cards and I felt a left out because I did not have any. That night I came home and went to www.moo.com and ordered their mini cards. If you have a flickr account, on your homepage you will see a link to Moo on the bottom right. Moo automatically connects with your flickr account and you can use your own photos as designs! Their process is very easy to use and I highly recommend them.
I also have codes to get 15% off of your first order so if you are interested email me at : fallon.chan@gmail.com
They even came in a plastic case to hold all 100 of my mini cards!
The designs I chose for my cards
And I also bought a nifty holder to hold about 15cards! its only $5!!
Today I helped shoot a surprise proposal on the bridge for a friends brother. I was so nervous my hands were shaking!! Thankfully the rain stopped by the time came and I was able to fire off some photos. I had set the cameras exposure to manual and shot a few while they were standing there. Once he got down on one knee, it was spray and pray =)
