firehouse, Ladder Company 3, 108 E. 13th St, Manhattan, NY, USA
Ladder Company 3, 108 E. 13th St, NYC, USA ©Adam S. Welz 2012
They say the best camera is the one you have with you, and the cam in the iPhone 4S is pretty impressive for the dinky little thing that it is. It also automatically GPS tags every image you shoot. I’m using it to commit the 8th Deadly Sin of Americana.
(Ladder Company 3 lost more men as a percentage of its total complement than any other firehouse in NYC on September 11th. It’s next door to the camera repair place I use.)
Winter Solstice moonrise, Prospect Park, New York
Moonrise over Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, 20 Dec 2010
Great Blue Heron, Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY, USA, 23 Oct 2010
Early morning, 23 Oct 2010: Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, on the edge of Prospect Lake in Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY. ©Adam S. Welz
Ring-billed Gull and Herring Gull, Popham Beach, Maine, 8 Aug 2009
I’m slowly accumulating clear record shots of North American birds. Here are a couple of gulls that are common in the northeastern USA — but rare vagrants back in South Africa!
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis), Popham Beach, Maine, USA, 8 August 2009
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), Popham Beach, Maine, USA, 8 Aug 2009
Big Sur after sunset 30 April 08
Making cynical landscape shots is easy. Making pretty landscape photos is easy, too. Well, as easy as any top-notch photography is. Making uncynical landscape photos of beautiful places without falling into making pretty postcard photos is pretty hard, and harder still when you’re as off-the-bicycle as I am. You have to put your hangups in your pocket and just get on with it – open yourself to the images without having to make them a certain way and putting away all your know-it-allness about this stuff – just get something modest to go home with and say a small thanks for being here.
I love the light just after the sun has set, but before it gets totally dead. It was cold and roughly windy on the Big Sur. I think the first one’s my favourite.
Cheers
Adam
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