EarlOfEdgecombe, I had a walk through midtown NYC on the East side this morning and snapped some photos. It still has the urban mystique after all this time, feels like the archetypal city.
#Photography #Urbanism #StreetPhotography
Looking East on 57th St at 7th Ave in NYC the tall buildings create a wide-angle canyon. The light is red, a truck waits at the light, people with roller suitcase scamper through the crosswalk. Above there are dramatic puffy white and gray clouds in the blue sky.
Looking North up the canyon of Madison Avenue the middle of the frame is an impossibly dense telephoto soup of cars and traffic lights. A large prominent red traffic light dominates the top third of the picture. Two dark-skinned men are loading trash into a garbage truck. A distressed black and white zebra crossing is horizontally at the bottom of the frame.
A modern skyscraper under construction on Madison Avenue. Striking geometry ascends to the sky while on the ground chaotic construction paraphernalia is guarded by two men with fluorescent yellow vests and hardhats. A colorful mosaic pattern of flowers on a billboard extends across the frame. American flags are on display. A businessman with suit and briefcase is passing on the sidewalk, dwarfed.
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