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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Shots of Freedom Tower and The Empire State Buildings

No photography blog about urban art would be complete without the inclusion of two of the most iconic buildings and architectural marvels in Manhattan.
Here is a shot of Freedom Tower located in Lower Manhattan. Shot was taken from Governor's Island just outside the city. Shot taken on Canon 1200D with a 75-300mm telephoto lens.



The Empire State Building taken from my Sony Xperia C4 E5306 with its built-in 25mm wide angle lens. This shot was taken from the Flatiron district.



Video for Barstarzz featuring Samir, Ryda, & Andrew


The video I did for my Barstarzz brothers. I put together this footage while they were just really practicing. The video is one of my personal favorites so far. Samir, Ryda, and Andrew gave me plenty of footage to work with.


Monday, July 25, 2016

The Art of Port Washington Long Island


These shots were taken on on July 2nd while visiting our lovely friend and my soul sister Christine out in Port Washington Long Island. Lovely day trip as you can see. These images were processed in Lightroom CC and edited with Nik Collection.


The sky and clouds over this house actually looked like that at the time of this shot.

Remnants from Hurricane Sandy several years ago.




 We caught an amazing sunset that evening.

Friday, July 22, 2016

Shot of The Belvedere Castle In Central Park NYC

Awesome shot I got of the Belvedere Castle from The Great Lawn in Central Park.




Tuesday, July 19, 2016

National Gallery of Art Fountain

Was experimenting with my cameras today. I took several shots today while on business in Washington D.C. I took the time to head to the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art to collect some shots of  their gorgeous fountain and garden on the outside of the museum. The purpose was to put the Sony Xperia C4 camera phone to a session equipped with an Aukey Ora 140° Wide Anglen+ Macro clip lens designed for smartphones. Also had an ND variable filter attached to get the desired effect. Also had my standard Canon DSLR on hand so I took some shots with it as well.

These were the shots taken with the tricked out Sony Xperia phone. Processed and edited with Adobe Lightroom and Nik Collections.



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And here are a couple shot with my Canon  DSLR  Rebel T5  in RAW then processed in Adobe Lightroom and edited with Nik Collection. Will share more from this collection at a later date.



Sunday, July 17, 2016

Images From The Flatiron District



Nice shoot  of the Empire State Building as scene from 5th ave @ 23rd st.

The Flatiron Building.
The David Barton Gym Location.

Triborough Bridge Night Shoot



Finally got around to shooting the Triborough Bridge located in my neighborhood of Queens, NY at night. Kind of my tribute to this magnificent structure.