Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
This is one of the buildings that make up the World Financial Center area, adjacent to the World Trade Center. I think that this particular building is designated as WFC 1.
I really liked the way the morning light was striking the building, throwing the structure into strong relief.
It’s another shot that shows the Z135’s tendency to vignette noticably at wider angles.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Portra 400.
Taken on 25 May 2019
This was taken in 51st Street subway station in Manhattan. We had a visit to the WTC memorial planned for the day and the subway was the most convenient way to get there. I did take a number of photos while we travelled on the subway during our trip, but most were on digital.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Portra 400.
Taken on 25 May 2019
After our visit to the WTC Memorial, we caught the subway back to midtown and got off the train at Grand Central Terminal. After grabbing a few snacks from the food court on the lower level, we decided head back to the hotel.
Upon approaching the exit we noticed people entering the building with umbrellas, or with significant signs of being caught in the rain, and upon exiting found that it was absolutely tipping it down.
While we waited for the rain to ease off, we sheltered under the road bridge outside the south entrance, and I took a few photographs, including this one.
I know many photographers who complain when it rains, but for me it’s always a treat to be able to get photographs in this sort of weather. The way the floor suddenly becomes a diffuse mirror for light and clolour, and the way people behave and take shelter makes for very interesing photos in my opinion. There’s obviously some work to be done to ensure you and your camera are not soaked, but the effort is definitely worth it, don’t you think?
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Portra 400.
Taken on 26 May 2019
On the Saturday of Memorial weekend there was a lot of activity around Rockefeller Plaza as people set things up for the events that would be taking place. Here a couple of guys stand outside Radio City Music Hall while trucks are unloaded.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Portra 400.
Taken on 25 May 2019
I’m not 100% sure where this building is – I think it’s in lower Manhattan and that I took the shot as we walked up Broadway after disembarking from the boat from Liberty Island. I took quite a few shots of tall buildings with blue skies and have to note how much the Z135 vignettes. I’d not noticed it too much with my black and white HP5+ shots from the same camera, but it’s quite noticable on the colour images. I don’t really mind it that much, but it’s something to bear in mind I suppose.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Portra 400.
Taken on 24 May 2019
Ah, the good old tongue-twister. “Red lorry, yellow lorry” is one that I have problems with, I can barely say it a handful of times before it becomes gabled noise. “She sells sea shells on the sea shore” on the other hand, is a breeze.
Anyway, today’s post features a couple of the aforementioned trucks, both of which were parked outside Radio City Music Hall on the first day of the Memorial Weekend.
I’m really happy with the vivid red of the Coke truck.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Portra 400.
Taken on 25 May 2019
We ate breakfast here on the first morning of our NYC trip, although it wasn’t the first time we’d visited – having eaten here on our first visit to New York back in 2012 where we came upon it by chance (as it wasn’t far from our hotel).
It’s a worthwhile place to visit with a somewhat unique feel. This is because the waiting staff are all performers in various Broadway and other theatre shows and, in between serving food, they each take turns to belt out various musical numbers while strutting between, on, and above the tables where the diners sit. It’s loud, but an experience well worth seeing at least once (assuming you like live musical numbers being sung while you eat!).
It’s a popular place (as can bee seen from the queue in today’s photo) but customers are seated by table availability and group size, so if you’re the only couple at the rear of a big line of families, it’s likely that you’ll get to skip ahead when a place for two appears (or vice-versa). The food was good, although a good 50% more expensive than the place we ate breakfast on most days (The New York Luncheonette on E 50th Street).
The photo below was taken a few days after we ate at the diner when I went for a quick pre-breakfast wander with my camera on the last day of our trip.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 28 May 2019
On the streets of Manhattan it seems there’s barely a corner without a hotdog cart pitching their wares. I seem to recall that tlast time I visited NYC that the carts sold mostly hotdogs (and maybe pretzels), but the variety seems to have increased to include gyros and other foods now. Almost all of the carts are Sabretts, although there was the odd Nathan’s vendor (didn’t there use to be another prolific hodog cart brand in NYC too?). Sadly, I didn’t have a hotdog on this visit (although I did get a Philly Cheesesteak), but here are a couple of photos of carts.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 28 May 2019
No, not that old Mel Gibson / Goldie Hawn movie, but part of some art installation at Rockefeller Plaza. 🙂
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 28 May 2019
30 Rockefeller Plaza.
We visited the “Top of the Rock” observation deck last time we were in New York back at the start of the decade, but this time I only walked around the bases of the Rockefeller Center complex and the only observation deck I visited this time was One World Trade Centre – which was a great experience but not as nice a view as the one from Top of the Rock, I don’t think.
It’s a nice building and I like how it looks like it’s been put together from Lego bricks in this image.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 29 May 2019
