I ‘heart’ NY.

29Dec07

Unusually enough, as I sit here drinking from my Starbucks, Central Park, mug, wishing I was in New York, thinking back to my trip I cannot remember seeing one of those cliché ‘I ‘heart’ NY’ t-shirts, not that I mind, I dislike them, even though it is the definitive statement that I could make. I remember pretending to look as little like a tourist as possible, which worked out well, as as far as I could tell, people more often than not thought we, (Mother and I), were New Yorkers.

On I think the second day, (after I purchased the Sigma 10-20mm, we visited the Museum of Modern Art, in New York of course. It was really great, I got in free which was nice, and then we just milled around for a while, with a nice break in the ‘chic’ café where I think I saw Natascha McElhone, an actress, (actor), you may know from Californication and other things. She was using an iPhone, as almost everyone seemed to be. (Maybe the non-iPhone users simply hid their phones from view).

I really enjoyed the photography section in the MoMA, there was a whole period exhibition of photos from around 1900-1935 ish, which was really interesting, including photographers that I had learned about at school during my AS Photography course, which was funny.

There was also this guy, surname MacFarland I think, and his photos were beyond interesting, they were seriously unusual, all panoramas, and they were digital stiches of it said 10s to 100s of images I believe, and then it was printed at a kind of 300dpi level, but on a canvas 4-6m long and a meter or so high, incredible detail was viewable. In one image he took lots of images of a garden during different points in the year, so there were fall trees, with summery flowers etc, incredibly unusual, all painstakingly stitched together in Photoshop to the point where you wouldn’t know unless you read it, and it was simply confusing the mixtures of plants, very interesting.

I like this photo purely because it shows the architecture of the building, and the people present, and some of the art being shown, so it covers a lot, whilst being in my opinion very minimal. It was taken using the Sigma 10-20mm once again, and I love it due to the wide feel that this image now has, really great.

Hope you’re well,

charlie styr.

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