Category: Urban
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Boxes Made of Stone and Steel
Photo taken on Broadway and 20th Street, walking Northwest from Union Square to the Flatiron District. Featured in the center is the neo-Renaissance Warren Building, completed in 1891. In spite of the catchy blog post title, the building is made of Roman brick, trimmed with marble and terra cotta (per newyorkitecture.com). I bet there’s steel…
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April Showers
I’ve been off social media for one whole week. Haven’t missed it, other than realizing that “Instagram stories” would be the number one place where I would post most of my photographic gems lately. So here I am back on my 15-year-old photography blog instead. I can’t let these images go unseen. Rainy Day in…
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A Moment Worth Recording
“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. A photograph celebrates neither…
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Cosmic New York
“Think of yourself in a cosmic context,” someone once suggested. It seemed like easier advice to take when I was out and about. In quarantine, sure, I go for daily walks and enjoy the fresh Brooklyn air. (An oxymoron, right? But it actually IS fresh, since carbon emissions have fallen since mid-March.) Meanwhile, I haven’t…
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Brooklyn Quiet
The streets of Brooklyn were mostly empty. The few brave souls outdoors wore masks, scarves, or bandanas around their faces to keep virus at bay. A sign posted on a lamppost encouraged neighbors to stay connected in spite of the shelter-in-place order, now in its second month. And yet, the flowering trees still bloomed. Their…
Virtually Gina 