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Tag Archives: B&W
Girl who missed the subway – NYC
This picture was taken back in 2007 a few weeks after I started photography. I had taken out my tripod, very determined to be serious about photography. And what is more serious than a photographer, his camera, and his giant tripod, waiting patiently for the Subway to arrive in 42th station? My intentions were very serious at start, I wanted to catch a motion blurred subway, with long exposure, coming in an empty station. Continue reading
Three Women and a puddle – Meat Packing District
This picture was taken in the meat packing district back in September 2007. May be it’s not worth mentioning it was just taken after a rain shower.
I had spotted this large puddle and found it interesting because it was reflecting the building across the street, and also because the pavement was adding some interestingness, with the pronounced textures of the stones, as well as the multiple levels of reflections when wet. So I took the position, half crouched on the sidewalk in front of the puddle, and waited for interesting subjects to pass-by in front of my lens. Continue reading
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Tagged B&W, Cobble, Meat_Packing, Pavement, People, Puddle, Rain, Reflection, Woman
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Boy climbing a wall – West Village
The boy was climbing the wall but was feeling guilty in a certain manner, and he was glancing at his mother who had passed on the right just to make sure everything was alright. Who knows, she might have not seen what the boy was doing. I applied a B&W filter, which renders well on this picture on my opinion, and provides something out of time. Would this picture been shot 50 years ago, it would not make a big difference. It is like an intemporal scene which could have happened at any epoch. We might call this picture the intemporal innocence. Continue reading