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Hearts in NoLita |
Brexit, the Economy, and World Peace Deliberations on a NoLita Street Corner
Themes, real or abstract:
AMAZING THINGS,
BASIC COLORS,
FRIENDS,
NEW YORK,
PEOPLE ON THE GO,
PLACES,
SHAPES,
TEXTURES
Tales of Summer, Characters, Shapes, Textures, Colors: Part 2 - Unraveling Elusive Webs

Aversion?
Ok, I'll come clean, fear is the appropriate word.
Thus, spiders top my list of dreaded creatures.
They use their "more than two legs" in ways that confirm any associated mystery or myth.
So, why am I up at sunrise on those muggy and foggy Spring and Summer days, camera hanging around my neck, bending over the garden or park bushes, seeking my nemesis?
Filling the Gap With Tales of Summer, Characters, Shapes, Textures, Colors: Part 1 - Uncolored Intro
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Great White Egret: when mealtime becomes a summer water ballet performance. |
The snow and ice came and went, though not always gracefully.
Spring and Summer were delayed, but compensated for their tardiness in color, variety, duration, and song.
Yes, song!
Themes, real or abstract:
BASIC COLORS,
BIRDS,
COLORS,
PLACES,
SEAGULLS,
SHAPES,
SUMMERTIME,
TALES OF SUMMER,
TEXTURES,
THE ELEMENTS,
WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHY
Traces, Shadows, Reflections on Gilded Ice
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Inverted in gold |
Even those that follow a brutal snowstorm.
Jonas arrived with shameful ferocity, piling mountains of the white vile stuff, forcing meteorologists to reshuffle their records, and shovel enthusiasts to reconsider the affinity.
The day after was equally brutal in temperatures and tempers. Crisp blue skies camouflaged the biting cold, which made the pulse race and breathing to come in short gasps. On a day like this, you may contemplate conceding a few feet of property to your neighbor if it means that you don't have to dig it out of the snow.
Then, a glorious fiery sky at sunset was generous compensation—if not for the shovel crowd, certainly for the lens enthusiast.
Territorial Claims and Concessions in Low Visibility
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Move over, now! |
The proverbial early riser gets the worm but the loudest seagull gets the post with the coveted view. This ritual of calculated circling, followed by a swift and powerful dive, and accompanied by aggressive squawking is the winged kingdom's equivalent of pulling rank.
Or, is it?
Themes, real or abstract:
AMAZING THINGS,
SEAGULLS,
THE ELEMENTS,
WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHY
The In-Between Angel and Fleeting Iridescence
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An angel between the sun and the lens |
But this is not heaven, real or imaginary, and these are not dimensionless bodies. Besides, there is not a speck of cloud here today. It is the heart of Manhattan, Central Park, where both angels and soap bubbles are crafted by human hands. Both are visible to human eyes and tangible to human minds without otherworldly intervention.
Mammatus, Anyone?
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Mammatus clouds in sunset light, Long Island, NY |
I don't like name-dropping but I'll make an exception since this particular name meant absolutely nothing to me until two days ago! Ironic how a "scientifically challenged" person keeps running into photographic situations that require understanding physical phenomena.
Moody weather—definitely a nonscientific term—provides ample opportunity to view and capture some stunning images.
Silhouetted Passengers on Suspended Passages
The overpass at LIRR Jamaica station |
Yet, however paradoxical, these are the least likely places to consider a link with any single person— or even think of these streams of live movement as anything but a potential hazard, were you unwise enough to impede their flow in any way.
Themes, real or abstract:
BRIDGING THE DISTANCE,
CROSSINGS,
DEFINITIONS,
LINKS,
NEW YORK,
PEOPLE ON THE GO,
PLACES,
SILHOUETTES
Follow the Birds to Get to the Other Side
Low flight over water |
I don't, consciously at least, make comparisons about how doing "this or that" in Europe is different than in the States. Or how even the dingiest beach in Greece is superior to anything on the Atlantic shoreline. Or how Times Square in New York City can take on any and all squares of the old continent and win hands-down as the most fascinating parcel of limited square footage.
Themes, real or abstract:
BRIDGING THE DISTANCE,
DEFINITIONS,
LINKS,
MY WORLDS AFAR,
PLACES,
SEAGULLS
The Swiss Precision of a Rusty Nail
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Never needs winding or battery change! |
Like wonder and amazement at phenomena easily comprehended and explained away by one of your more scientifically inclined peers. You don't have a clue about the process—and tortures, I imagine—that light has to go through for a rainbow to appear in the sky, or a corroded slab of metal to mark the time of day with dogged precision.
Redefining the Basic Colors, Without Magenta
I see no trace of magenta here, do you? |
"...but magenta isn't even a real color..." wrote the commenter.
A recent humorous post shared on Facebook about modern printers and their uncanny timing for running out of ink, prompted an array of comments—gripes to be exact. Obviously, no argument on the subject is ever complete without a mention of almighty magenta. And rightly so.
Caught Unprepared and Unframed on Debut

Proper as it seems to write an introductory post that sets the tone for this blog, I cannot. Sure, I can come up with a couple of paragraphs about what I intend to do here but that would contradict my impulsive nature.
Not that I don't like a contradiction - on the contrary!
No, there won't be a particular tone or theme to the words or images exposed on this page. Just me, my camera, my scratch notes, and my keyboard—complemented by my joy, sadness, frustration, happiness, anger, awe, disappointment, discovery, excitement, boredom, small accomplishments, bitter failures, smiles, and tears—in no particular order or frequency:
Themes, real or abstract:
BRIDGING THE DISTANCE,
CLOUDS,
DEFINITIONS,
MY WORLDS AFAR
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