Confusion
Sometimes, even if there are signposts guiding the way, things can be confusing.
Tag Archives: 1990s New York
In Focus, East Side Dragon
I found another photo of the East Village Dragon. It is so much better than yesterday’s. My pen and ink extrapolation from that photo really missed the mark. Below is a detail of that photograph, in clear focus. The frieze, in context: My pen and ink rendition:
Coney Island Texture
I took this picture through the fence at Coney Island during the off season. There is fine texture on the fence post and links of the fence in the foreground, while the chain link fence as a whole, overlays a regular, course pattern on the scene. In optical terms, the photograph captures a wide range of […]
Hoop and Long Shadows
The photo below lends itself perfectly to a pen and ink rendition. There are an assortment of grays, and textures abound. Long shadows overlay this terrain. My pen and ink sketch is below:
Doors to Delmonico’s
When I came across 23 Williams Street in Manhattan, I thought I was in a time warp. Was it the same Delmonico’s that Oscar Wilde raved about, pairing it with the Yosemite Valley as ‘two of the most remarkable bits of scenery in the States’? Was it the same Delmonico’s that coaxed the home-bound detective Nero Wolfe from his West […]
Albion Books, Frontal View
Thank you for the encouraging complements about my photo and sketch of the book kiosk at Central Park in New York City in yesterday’s post. Today I would like to add some context to that scene by revealing another shot I took that day. My pen and ink/watercolor rendition is below: My sketch is not as […]
Doors Live on
Below is a photo of one of the magnificent doorways to B. Altman on 34th Street in Manhattan, NY. My mother used to go there when she went into ‘the city’. B. Altman is defunct but, at the time the photograph was taken (circa 1990), the doors opened into one of the new (at the time) […]
Flying Shirt
Problem: I run a dry cleaning business and my laundry plant is on the second floor. The elevator only works when it wants to and the stairs are steep and narrow. How do I accommodate my delivery boy (my sister’s son) who has a lung condition? See the photo below for an interesting solution found […]
Censored
Sometimes street photographers should consider self censorship… or at least not remind viewers of certain binding issues.
Another Upper West Side Door
I snapped the picture below during the same walk on New York’s Upper West Side that I took the photo of yesterday’s doors (see Sunrise Doors). Below are two sketches of this door. The one on the left side is a pen and ink drawing in which I attempted to replicate the gray values of the photograph. […]
