Living in Florida now but am and always will be a New Yorka. Thank you for your photography – brings me back home.
KateFebruary 7, 2011, 7:07 pm
Joe, I’ve been trying all day to find the words that describe the feeling this photo evoked in me. And I must conclude now that I am at a loss. Needless to say, this does not happen often. Or ever. So I’ll just say that this shot is spectacular. Thank you.
Lovely, Joe. It’s like two neighborhoods. One for the living, one for the dead.
Alain DFebruary 7, 2011, 8:52 pm
Great shot of a peculiar place. I love peculiar places. Or places with a peculiar mood. Places men make for themselves. It’s more than just architecture, or urban planning, it’s the jumble of it all, or the resulting harmony / conflict.
I went to flikr to find what lens you used (bit I didn’t find the answer) : it’s a wide angle but the picture doesn’t “bend” at the sides. Would you be kind enough to tell me ?
Thank you Joe.
It is a wide angle — I used my Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8, and it was at 17mm. I shot at ISO 200, f/5.6 and 1/1600 sec.
You don’t see much distortion at the edges partly because I corrected some of the distortion in Photoshop. But actually I think the things near the edges are in fact a little fatter than they should be…
KatieFebruary 7, 2011, 9:27 pm
Intriguing viewpoint, it reminds me of a Grandma Moses painting, kind of folk art looking. I like Pixpop’s comment too.
Nice. You’d think that living there would provide a constant reminder and prompt you to live fully but in reality probably not. And it is rather droll that the houses are all the same and go on to infinity. It reminds me of an old song by The Kinks-” Shangri La”. Do you know it?
Would that be someone who shares that love of peculiar places with me, Russell ? I think it’s a first. Or photographers have that too, but since it’s understood it is not spoken.
Some like painting, architecture, sculpture, but what is it called, enjoying urban places like squares and circles, streets and lanes, underpasses and bridges, surrounding monuments and parks and unmatched buildings of various periods for various purposes, how do you call someone who enjoys reading Jane Jacobs or a book on the creation of places and monuments ? A waco I suppose. Hummm. I know I can put up with it, so. Alright, a waco, then.
:D
aprilFebruary 20, 2011, 3:13 am
Currier & Ives meets Edward Hopper here: Life & Death in Four Colors, A Study (hold the horsemen). Yep, the small house meets the big one, while the big house becomes the small. A comforting image of the most discomforting thought.
Outstanding. The graves, the sky, and above all the Archie Bunker houses. Love it.
Beauuuuuutiful!! These views, the simpler the better.
Living in Florida now but am and always will be a New Yorka. Thank you for your photography – brings me back home.
Joe, I’ve been trying all day to find the words that describe the feeling this photo evoked in me. And I must conclude now that I am at a loss. Needless to say, this does not happen often. Or ever. So I’ll just say that this shot is spectacular. Thank you.
Lovely, Joe. It’s like two neighborhoods. One for the living, one for the dead.
Great shot of a peculiar place. I love peculiar places. Or places with a peculiar mood. Places men make for themselves. It’s more than just architecture, or urban planning, it’s the jumble of it all, or the resulting harmony / conflict.
I went to flikr to find what lens you used (bit I didn’t find the answer) : it’s a wide angle but the picture doesn’t “bend” at the sides. Would you be kind enough to tell me ?
Thank you Joe.
It is a wide angle — I used my Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8, and it was at 17mm. I shot at ISO 200, f/5.6 and 1/1600 sec.
You don’t see much distortion at the edges partly because I corrected some of the distortion in Photoshop. But actually I think the things near the edges are in fact a little fatter than they should be…
Intriguing viewpoint, it reminds me of a Grandma Moses painting, kind of folk art looking. I like Pixpop’s comment too.
Nice. You’d think that living there would provide a constant reminder and prompt you to live fully but in reality probably not. And it is rather droll that the houses are all the same and go on to infinity. It reminds me of an old song by The Kinks-” Shangri La”. Do you know it?
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/k/kinks/shangri+la_20078932.html
I like that view on the BQE where you see the graveyard and it leads right into the skyscrapers of Manhattan in the distance.
Little bit o’ Stephen Shore or Joel Sternfeld here. In other words, fascinating picture…
Excellent comment, Alain. (Great photo, too, Joe. ;) )
Would that be someone who shares that love of peculiar places with me, Russell ? I think it’s a first. Or photographers have that too, but since it’s understood it is not spoken.
Some like painting, architecture, sculpture, but what is it called, enjoying urban places like squares and circles, streets and lanes, underpasses and bridges, surrounding monuments and parks and unmatched buildings of various periods for various purposes, how do you call someone who enjoys reading Jane Jacobs or a book on the creation of places and monuments ? A waco I suppose. Hummm. I know I can put up with it, so. Alright, a waco, then.
:D
Currier & Ives meets Edward Hopper here: Life & Death in Four Colors, A Study (hold the horsemen). Yep, the small house meets the big one, while the big house becomes the small. A comforting image of the most discomforting thought.