Posts Tagged New York

Evacuated City

Two years in a row New York is being hit by a major storm caused by a hurricane, and this year’s Sandy will be a lot more devastating than Irene. The night before the storm, New York City forces public transportation shut downs and evacuations. While the weather is still relatively calm, the city is mostly dead with only a few souls roaming around. This was my perfect opportunity to capture empty streets of a city that “never sleeps”. I drove to some of the more well known spots, from Times Square, Columbus Circle, Apple Store, to Herald Square, Union Square and Meatpacking District.

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Mila Star Gazing

This past weekend was supposed to be a great night for a meteor shower, so I took a late night drive up Palisades Parkway to 9W through Black Rock Forest in New York and stopped at a lookout. It was nearly pitch black with a hint of city lights in the distance. Unfortunately while I was busy setting up the camera and taking photos, I missed the few shooting stars that my friend witnessed.

The photos are all single exposures, taken with a Canon 16-35mm 2.8L on a full-frame body, 30 second exposures with a remote. The foreground was lit by the iPhone flash and the lens was manually focused. It’s a good idea to take multiple photos with slightly different focusing distances in case you misfocus the first photo.


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Strawberry Lemonade Champagne

When I saw you I was speechless. When you smiled, everything around me faded. When you pulled my hand, I would follow you anywhere. When you spun around me, you became my whole world.

A Journey into a Storm

It was finally her turn to find true love, but he hurricane had taken away all that she had worked for. She was left to her own devices to search what she was looking for, and without a soul in sight, she found herself. The storm had set her free.

Fly Maya, Fly.



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Driving Videos

I realized I never posted these two driving videos, both were recorded last year. The first drive was through Bear Mountain in my Z4 M Roadster. Unfortunately only one GoPro was in HD, and the one viewing my car was low-res. The second was a rental car driving down the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I can’t wait till the weather warms up and I can make more polished videos with my new GoPro Hero HD.

Enjoy!

Storm over Manhattan

The moment I saw flashes outside my window, I grabbed my 5D with 16-35mm 2.8L, remote and tripod. I wanted to create a time lapse, so each frame had to be fast enough shutter to allow enough frames, rather than low ISO and long shutter speeds. Each frame is ISO 400, f/13 at 5.6 seconds. The view is out my balcony in Fort Lee, NJ.

El Bob in the Big Apple

El Bob spent the day in New York City and made a few new friends. There is absolutely too much to see, it would take El Bob a few lifetimes to cover everything. Due to bad weather and limited time, El Bob could only visit a small seashell-full of places. He started with breakfast at Central Cafe, then off to Grand Central where he took the A to Museum of Natural History. El Bob walked through Central Park and into the Central Park Zoo to say hi to some penguin and polar bear friends. It was then off to the Apple store to play with the new iPhone 3Gs. El Bob walked through Times Square in the rain, visited the New York Public Library, which was kinda smelly, and finally ended up at the Guggenheim. There will be many more New York City trips for him in the future.

The reason why I prefer to use a point and shoot camera is deeper depth of field. Even with a super wide 16mm lens wide open, the background will be blurred out, whereas this does not happen with my Sony Cybershot.


El Bob barely fits on the center island, narrowly escapes the taxis.

Free water park for El Bob!

El Bob enjoys people watching, and watching you too.

Too bad there are no people to watch.

El Bob does not pose for Nikon users.

Welcome to El Bob’s living room.

El Bob wonders how many of his relatives can fit in here.

El Bob rushing for the subway.

El Bob just made it.

El Bob is thinking of getting another tattoo.

El Bob has friends of all sizes, dead or alive.

“Hi brontosaurus.”

El Bob has a staring contest with Sharky. It’s a tie.

El Bob meets Mr Ed.

“Giddy up!”

El Bob enjoys live music.

El Bob wishes he could swim, but he can’t even float.

El Bob walks just like the penguins.

El Bob is always around water.

El Bob wants to give Mr Polar Bear a CocaCola.

This is the perfect keyboard for El Bob while playing “Up.”

DJ El Bob in the house.

Taking a breather, El Bob can’t stand too many Apple fanboys.

El Bob needs these babies in his room.

El Bob is Mac and PC compatible.

El Bob is saving up for La Bebe.

El Bob just met Dug and he loves him.

El Bob helps crush sesame seeds.

El Bob is ready for fetch.

Time for El Bob to get educated.

El Bob should have his own statue.

El Bob is looking out for any cute girls.

El Bob is a bookpig.

El Bob would like to crawl all over the ceiling if he could.

El Bob visits Lady Liberty.

El Bob passes through a wet Times Square.

El Bob with his three new friends.