The other day, my wife and I were wondering if people would have lost their minds completely, if Prospect Park and the other parks in the city hadn’t been accessible for safe physical distancing during the pandemic. It made me appreciate Prospect Park—and our good fortune to live so close to it—that much more. I got up early the other morning, when there would be fewer people, and made a few photos with my drone, to get a bird’s eye perspective.
DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY | June 15, 2015
Shot during the National Geographic Your Shot Meetup. I had a great time and learned a ton from an incredible group of instructors and editors.
A blobby Manhattan Bridge. | Fujifilm X100S | f/2.0 | 1/8s | ISO250
A routine eye exam resulted in dilated pupils and blurry vision for a few hours yesterday. I'm quite proud to say I have 20/20 vision, so not being able to see clearly is always an alien sensation for me. As an excercise, I decided to shoot a few images to illustrate how it felt.
I think my biggest takeaway from this exercise was that it forced me to re-focus (bam!) on some of the basics of composition - if you can't really see your subject, you have to pull back and compose the scene based on abstract attributes, like light and dark, color, and where the blobs of light are.
Anyway, it was a fun little exericise, but I'm always glad to return to clarity.
Prospect Park Brooklyn, NY
Ghostface Killah at Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
Brooklyn, NY June 2007
January, Brooklyn NY
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
I braved the 20º weather in Prospect Park last weekend, all for the sake of a few photos, because that's how I roll.
The extended period of below-freezing temperatures meant that lake was frozen solid - enough so that a few souls more daring than I ventured out on the ice (that is not how I roll).
According to my Nike+ Fuel Band, I've been pretty inactive for... well, the whole month of December. In a quest to end the month (and the year) on a strong note, I decided to go on what turned into a rather epic photo walk.
I started in Prospect Park, worked my way through Windsor Terrace and Park Slope, then headed towards the infamous Gowanus Canal (I hear it has gonorrhea). I then made my way over to Cobble Hill, and finally finished up in Downtown Brooklyn, where I hopped on the Q train and headed back home.
It took about 3 hours, and got me to within a few points of my daily Fuel Point goal. Here's to an active 2013.
A wind-blown sign at the Parkside Ave. entrance to Prospect Park.
A young boy watches some street ball being played at the courts in the Parade Grounds at Prospect Park.
Images from Downtown Brooklyn and Christopher Columbus Park.
A montage of images shot with iPhone 4 and edited with Luminance App in the Prospect Park South neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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I was doing one of my usual rambling walks in Prospect Park yesterday afternoon - despite the fact that I don’t usually have a goal or destination, these walks make me feel like I’m actually doing something with my weekend.
I happened to make eye contact and smile at the woman selling icees by one of the entrances to Prospect Park. She returned my smile, and despite the fact that I’m usually really shy about asking to photograph strangers, that is exactly what I found myself doing.
I learned a couple of things from this exchange - one was that photographing strangers isn’t that scary. In fact, when I showed her the shot I had made on the back of my camera, she told me that she thought the photo was “muy linda”, and seemed really happy - which was very rewarding to me. I also learned that while I’m still a huge fan of the candid, unposed stuff that the hardcore street photographers do, a posed portrait of a stranger is also very satisfying.
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