Monday, February 07, 2011

#photography An Amble along Central Park, New York

Waking up very early in the morning, Shane and I went for a walk taking photos. We reached Central Park when it was just after dawn and walked the south side, here are some of the photographs of that roughly 1 kilometre walk along West 59th Street. Well, it could be less, but felt like that.

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Dawn is just about to break.

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The entrance to the park

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Looking back at the buildings

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One of the innumerable paths in the park

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And pooping dogs, why not?

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Does that include people?

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Rows of gleaming windows. Must be damn expensive apartments…

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Staggered apartments at the top

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You can still see the sliver of the moon

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Thataway :)

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Erm, no, that way

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Trump Parc?

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The juxtaposition of immense wealth and homeless sleeping on the sidewalk. Ironic, eh?

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The dawn finally breaks lighting up the skyscrapers

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Lovely colours of autumn

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No its not an explosion, but only some steam being let off.

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I wonder what these pigeons are eating.
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Did you get the answer? heh

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They might be rich and living in the posh areas, but well, they also need honey wagons, lol.

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Beautiful pond

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A flame in the forest.

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Another view of the flame and the pond

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Various shapes and sizes of the skyscrapers

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Damn feathered rats

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More apartment buildings

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General Sherman. The man whose victory over Atlanta saved President Lincoln’s election campaign and can arguably be said to have preserved the union. Perhaps one of the modern ear’s first scorched earth policy leading generals, his gilded bronze statue seems to have suffered from the same fate of looking scorched.

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A plane over NY, it always makes me slightly nervous…

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The famous Apple Store

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So we have a bit of an issue with the phones. Generally, I found the city’s infrastructure a bit on the dingy side.

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The trump tower

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Extraordinary set of buildings side by side

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I couldn't understand what that top of the building was supposed to look like. And on the right, mirrored buildings.  Here is the slideshow with more photographs.

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