Another attempt at macro photography. Getting better – as long as my subject is stationary. I’m still not too good with a moving target.
Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta 50mm f2.8 Macro lens
Quarters
Around the Neighborhood – Undulating grass
Taken at the nearby Trump National Golf Course. The blowing grass made me think of the sea. For a moment I managed to erase the thought that this was taken on the road by the Trump property.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Another trip into Manhattan – Returning home
Ornate column outside the Charles Scribner’s Sons Building, also known as 597 Fifth Avenue, on Fifth Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets. Designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux Arts style, it was built from 1912 to 1913 for the Scribner’s Bookstore. When I first came to NY it was still a bookstore. I loved going there. Nowadays the space once occupied by the bookstore is now a Lululemon store.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Another trip into Manhattan – lunch at ‘Inside Park at St. Bart’s’
We had lunch at Inside Park at St. Bart’s, which occupies a portion of St. Bartholomew’s Church (seen in the background): a historic Episcopal parish founded in January 1835, and located on the east side of Park Avenue between 50th and 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, in New York City. In 2018, the church celebrated the centennial of its first service in its Park Avenue home. In 1992, with the parish’s support, the St Bartholomew’s Preservation Foundation was established. After a two-year fund drive, restoration of the St. Bartholomew’s site began. Leaking roof drains were made watertight, the iconic dome was temporarily secured, and the Great Terrace and 50th Street wall were rebuilt. “Inside Park,” the site’s popular restaurant, also opened in 1992.
At Inside Park at St. Bart’s waiting for my visitor to arrive.
Detail of St. Bartholomew’s Church
Another detail of St. Bartholomew’s Church.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Another trip into Manhattan – On the way to lunch
Towards the end of July I found myself in Manhattan again – this time to meet and have lunch with a visitor from Geneva. I took these pictures while on the way to the restaurant.
Above escalators in Grand Central Terminal.
US Flag at Grand Central.
Woman with a red bag.
In the background: The MetLife Building (also 200 Park Avenue and formerly the Pan Am Building), a skyscraper at Park Avenue and 45th Street, north of Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed in the International style by Richard Roth, Walter Gropius, and Pietro Belluschi, the MetLife Building is 808 feet (246 m) tall with 59 stories. In the Pan Am days the roof was used for a while as a heliport. However, on May 16, 1977, about one minute after an S-61L landed and its 20 passengers disembarked, the right front landing gear collapsed, causing the aircraft to topple onto its side with the rotors still turning. One of the five 20-foot (6.1 m) blades detached, killing four men who were waiting to board, then fell to the ground, where it killed a woman on the corner of Madison Avenue and 43rd Street. Two other people were seriously injured. Helicopter service was suspended that day and never resumed.
In the foreground: The Helmsley Building, a 35-story building at 230 Park Avenue between East 45th and 46th streets in Midtown Manhattan, just north of Grand Central Terminal in New York City. It was built in 1929 as the New York Central Building and was designed by Warren & Wetmore in the Beaux-Arts style. It was the tallest structure in the “Terminal City” complex around Grand Central prior to the completion of what is now the MetLife Building.
The Helmsley Building carries vehicular traffic through its base: traffic exits and enters the Park Avenue Viaduct through two portals passing under the building. The lobby of the building is between the vehicular portals. Flanking the viaduct’s ramps are passageways connecting 45th and 46th streets, with entrances to Grand Central Terminal.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II