Door with Old Woman
Sometimes I like to add the human element to my photography. I saw a woman about to pass in front of the door. The black coat against the blackness of the door makes a good composition.
Tag Archives: 1990s New York
Sunrise Doors
This door caught my attention during one of my treks to the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the early 1990s. The pattern seems to be Art Deco. Although I don’t remember much else about the doors, they seem to be gating an empty space, from the reflections on the threshold below. The doors also, at […]
Central Park Reservoir
I’m not sure why my photograph of the South Gate House at the Central Park Reservoir is so off balance. I would bet that I could not get back far enough, with the lens I was using, to get a better picture. The beauty of sketching is, one can invent what one can’t see. I […]
Chance Encounter
Part of what I love about photography is the ability to capture interesting images of strange juxtapositions. Seeing a mannequin in a store window or in other situations holds much promise for a thought provoking photograph. There are many people who misuse the apostrophe. If that is the case above, there are additional meanings to […]
Grayscale Tunnel
In today’s experiment, I duplicated yesterday’s pen and ink drawing of one of the many walk-through tunnels in New York City’s Central Park. Today, I used no pen and ink at all. I just used water soluble pencils to sketch the scene. I completed the piece by adding water with a small brush. The Derwent […]
Somewhere in Brooklyn
I don’t know the vintage of the manhole cover pictured below. I took the picture in Brooklyn in early 1991.
Tunnel
I composed the pen and ink study below from one of the photographs I took in Central Park. It may have been during the New York City Marathon. In the photo, one can see many people on the road under which the tunnel burrows.
Doors Need Doorbells
My photo below combines my love for odd signs and doors (see yesterday’s post). I love this one:
More Ink/Grayscale Experiments
I’ve been scouring my photo archives for interesting black and whites with interesting geometric composition and a full range of tonal values. For today’s experiment I found a street photo of a dumpster and a staircase that fit the bill. Here is my pen and ink rendition of the scene: I drew in pencil before inking, […]
Trachodont
I loved the Museum of Natural History in New York as a child in the 1960s, when my parents took me there. There was a cavernous room that had rocks and minerals. Mom loved geology and I was fascinated by the sprouts of yellow sulphur crystals and green and blue copper blooms. I really wanted to […]
