(more details later, as time permits) ****************************************** The New York City Photography Meetup group sponsored a sunset get-together several weeks ago at Gantry Plaza State Park, on the east side of New York's East River, so that interested photographers could compare notes as they photographed the mid-town Manhattan skyline from a vantage point right across from the United Nations building. Unfortunately, it rained on the original date for the get-together; and it rained on the next two or three successive dates that had been planned. Finally, on Oct 6, 2011, the weather cooperated: it was a beautiful afternoon, and there was not a cloud in the sky as the sun sank down in the western sky. As a result, sunset was not as spectacular and dramatic as it might have been ... but it was still pretty nice. The photos shown in this Flickr set are all 7-shot HDR compositions, with my Nikon D5100 camera on a reasonably steady tripod. Most of the other photographers were also using tripods, but I don't know if anyone else was shooting multiple images for HDR compositions. Indeed, I haven't figured out where all of the other photographers have uploaded their results, but I'm sure an enterprising Googler will be able to track them down... Meanwhile, here are the 20 photos that I thought were worth sharing...

(more details later, as time permits) ****************************************** The New York City Photography Meetup group sponsored a sunset get-together several weeks ago at Gantry Plaza State Park, on the east side of New York's East River, so that interested photographers could compare notes as they photographed the mid-town Manhattan skyline from a vantage point right across from the United Nations building. Unfortunately, it rained on the original date for the get-together; and it rained on the next two or three successive dates that had been planned. Finally, on Oct 6, 2011, the weather cooperated: it was a beautiful afternoon, and there was not a cloud in the sky as the sun sank down in the western sky. As a result, sunset was not as spectacular and dramatic as it might have been ... but it was still pretty nice. The photos shown in this Flickr set are all 7-shot HDR compositions, with my Nikon D5100 camera on a reasonably steady tripod. Most of the other photographers were also using tripods, but I don't know if anyone else was shooting multiple images for HDR compositions. Indeed, I haven't figured out where all of the other photographers have uploaded their results, but I'm sure an enterprising Googler will be able to track them down... Meanwhile, here are the 20 photos that I thought were worth sharing...