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Dec 14, 2007 - December sunsets - 3 A couple of quick pictures from our balcony at 275 West 96th St, of sunsets around 4:30 PM. Not only does the sun set very far to the south at this time of year, but it also sets very quickly. In this particular case, Toni called out from the kitchen that the sunset was spectacular, and I had about two minutes to grab my little pocket digital camera, step out on the terrace, and snap these pictures before it all disappeared...
Dec 14, 2007 - December sunsets - 5 A couple of quick pictures from our balcony at 275 West 96th St, of sunsets around 4:30 PM. Not only does the sun set very far to the south at this time of year, but it also sets very quickly. In this particular case, Toni called out from the kitchen that the sunset was spectacular, and I had about two minutes to grab my little pocket digital camera, step out on the terrace, and snap these pictures before it all disappeared...
I watched this couple for a few minutes, and they just sat there, at the edge of the pier on the western edge of Greenwich Village, looking across the Hudson River toward New Jersey -- not speaking, not looking at each other, not really doing anything at all besides watching the sun slowly dropping down toward the New Jersey horizon across the river. It was quiet, peaceful, reflective few minutes for them, and for me...
Greenwich Village, Oct 1969 -- When I wasn't poking around Washington Square or other parts of &quot;central&quot; Greenwich Village, I sometimes wandered over to the docks along the Hudson River, underneath what was then still an elevated highway. I have to be honest and admit that this is not a &quot;natural&quot; picture; I had attached an orange filter to my camera lens to create a look and feel that actually did occur from time to time -- but never when I had my camera with me. (However, I should also point out that this picture was taken about 30 years before Photoshop appeared on the scene; so this photo has not been &quot;photoshopped&quot;!)
This is one of numerous pictures of the Tall Ships parade, taken from our apartment window on Riverside Drive on the 4th of July Bicentennial celebration, in 1976. Obviously, we weren't aware that this would be happening when we first moved into the apartment in July of 1974; all we knew at the time was that our apartment provided a fabulous view out over the Hudson River, from our 14th-story perch. But at some point in 1975 or 1976, I began to realize what wonderful photography opportunities it provided, and I took great advantage of the 500 mm telephoto lens that I had on my Nikon camera. The eastern edge of the river was probably a quarter-mile away from our window, and the far western side of the river, and New Jersey behind it, was probably a mile away. Yet I could take amazing photographs of the apartment buildings on the other side of the river, not to mention all of the river traffic. And when the Tall Ships parade came along, I took picture after picture after picture, all day long, as the naval vessels and civilian ships sailed up the river toward the GW Bridge. But as it turned out, we had a fabulous sunset (of which there were many, many, mnany during our 8-year residence in that apartment), and it provided all kinds of great shots. In this particular picture, the sun was dropping down toward the horizon, and it was like watching the boats sail along on a river of molten gold. The glare was pretty intense, so it was hard to pick up any colors; but at least this boat showed some of its red, white, and blue sails -- while all of the others became just black silhouettes in the golden river. I have no idea what kind of ship this one was, or whether it had any kind of official role in the parade itself; I don't know where it came from, or where it was going. But the colors and the silhouette were wonderful, and it always makes me smile when I see it...
Various pictures from the summer of 1974, mostly in and around our apartment on Riverside Drive, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- looking out over the Hudson River, toward New Jersey
This was obviously taken sometime around sunset, and it was sometime during the month of August in 1975, when we had rented a house in Ocean Bay Park on Fire Island. I was writing the &quot;Structured Design&quot; book, and I usually knocked off for the day -- or at least for a couple of hours -- around dinnertime, and then took a stroll along the beach to get some relaxation after pounding an IBM Selectric typewriter all day long (no PC's, no word processors in those days!). I can't prove it, but I'm pretty certain this shot was taken while looking east -- i.e., with the sun, and Ocean Beach, behind me, the private enclave of Point O'Woods in front of me, and the ocean off to the right. The person in shadows was presumably walking toward me, but I have no idea who it was; and he/she presumably kept striding right on past me after I took the picture. There were lots of evenings like this one; indeed, there was nothing particularly unique about this particular evening, except that (for reasons unknown) I happened to have my camera with me on this occasion.
In the summer of 1975 (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away), I spent a month at a rented beach house in the tiny village of Ocean Bay Park, on Fire Island -- a narrow sand-bar that runs along the south shore of Long Island, New York. The purpose of the visit wasn't to relax and enjoy myself, but to have the solitude needed to write a book. The result of the one-month effort was a book called Structured Design ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0138544719/edyourdonswebsit ) , which I coauthored with Larry Constantine. Every day, I took whatever I had written (on an IBM Selectric typewriter, as there were no laptops or PC's available in those days) down to the Post Office in Ocean Beach, to be mailed back to my office in New York; then I returned to the house and continued writing. I did usually take a break in the evenings -- and after dinner, I usually went for a walk along the beach. That's where these photos all came from...
In the summer of 1975 (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away), I spent a month at a rented beach house in the tiny village of Ocean Bay Park, on Fire Island -- a narrow sand-bar that runs along the south shore of Long Island, New York. The purpose of the visit wasn't to relax and enjoy myself, but to have the solitude needed to write a book. The result of the one-month effort was a book called Structured Design ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0138544719/edyourdonswebsit ) , which I coauthored with Larry Constantine. Every day, I took whatever I had written (on an IBM Selectric typewriter, as there were no laptops or PC's available in those days) down to the Post Office in Ocean Beach, to be mailed back to my office in New York; then I returned to the house and continued writing. I did usually take a break in the evenings -- and after dinner, I usually went for a walk along the beach. That's where these photos all came from...
Dec 14, 2007 - December sunsets - 3 A couple of quick pictures from our balcony at 275 West 96th St, of sunsets around 4:30 PM. Not only does the sun set very far to the south at this time of year, but it also sets very quickly. In this particular case, Toni called out from the kitchen that the sunset was spectacular, and I had about two minutes to grab my little pocket digital camera, step out on the terrace, and snap these pictures before it all disappeared...
Dec 14, 2007 - December sunsets - 3 A couple of quick pictures from our balcony at 275 West 96th St, of sunsets around 4:30 PM. Not only does the sun set very far to the south at this time of year, but it also sets very quickly. In this particular case, Toni called out from the kitchen that the sunset was spectacular, and I had about two minutes to grab my little pocket digital camera, step out on the terrace, and snap these pictures before it all disappeared...
Dec 14, 2007 - December sunsets - 3 A couple of quick pictures from our balcony at 275 West 96th St, of sunsets around 4:30 PM. Not only does the sun set very far to the south at this time of year, but it also sets very quickly. In this particular case, Toni called out from the kitchen that the sunset was spectacular, and I had about two minutes to grab my little pocket digital camera, step out on the terrace, and snap these pictures before it all disappeared...
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