As I sit here at home, I simply loathe the fact that I’m not still in New York right now. I’m listening to music that was played in the hotel, (W Hotels - Warmth of Cool), and quite simply, wishing I was there, the feeling of always being comfortable, always feeling alive and well was just something I wasn’t used to in England. I love it, the people, the cars, the shop fronts, the food, everything I guess.

This photo is one of my favourites from the trip. It is of the Federal Hall on Wall Street, famous, obviously. Besides that point, it was interesting to me due to the fact that there must have been some sort of scare in terms of a fire, as about five firetrucks pulled up honking away, and police vehicles, and that ’small’ Fire SUV you see there in front of you.

If this blog is going to be about the photos, then I’d better make it a little snappier, otherwise it’ll simply be another ‘diary’ blog of random thoughts. Not that I don’t love doing those, but I’ve already got a cool one. Although I like this design more :-)

I had purchased the Sigma 10-20 the day before I took this image in BH Photo, ($:£ very nice, thus, a pleasant purchase), and I used that for this image, you can see elements of distortion, particularly on the edge of the left firetruck, and people in the bottom right, but I kind of enjoy that in an image, it makes for some interesting compositional features.

What I really love about this image is the way it makes the buildings around the federal hall seem almost infinitely high, just shooting up uncontrollably, either side, and I love that feeling of clostrophobia and enclosure in this image, however, I gather and understand that some people may also not enjoy it as much as I do.

As well as this, little things like how the flag atop the building is so neatly folded over itself, and almost backlit by the light coming from behind just makes me smile, it’s very nice. All in all, it’s an image I’m most certainly pleased with and proud of. You can visit this photograph on my Flickr.

I hope your doing good, and as this photoblog is quite new, (first post :P), I hope this goes well, it was John’s group that inspired me to simply make somewhere for me to gas about my photos, and others maybe, sometimes. We’ll see. I’d love any comments, and I hope you’re well :-)

charlie styr.