Seen while walking around in Manhttan. Along Lexigton Avenue if I remember correctly.
Taken with a Sony NEX 5N and 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 OSS kit lens.
Manhattan Street Scene
Fat City Rockers at the Downtown Peekskill Music Series
Every Saturday evening during Summer the town of Peekskill, NY closes a section of North Division Street and presents a band of some kind. This part of Division Street has a number of restaurants, which put tables and chairs outside so that you can eat while listening to the music. The whole thing has a very European feel to it.
On this particular evening (June 15, 2019) the featured band was “Fat City Rockers:
… a Band performing Rock (50’s-60’s), Instrumental, and Swing/Jump, Big Band music. We are a high energy three-piece group called “The Fat City Rockers” from Northern Westchester County, NY. We are rocking and swinging from Philly to Boston!!! Everything from pubs, restaurants, car shows, breweries, radio stations, county fairs, public and private events.
We are different!!! Performing: The Stray Cats, Dion, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley, The Ventures, The Shadows, Danny Gatton, Eddie Cochrane, Dick Dale, Robert Gordon, Bill Halley, Tom Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis and much, much, more.
We appeal to a wide age groups & have a solid following. We try to play material that the older generations have not heard in years, as well and super important, turning on younger age groups. The feedback has been nothing less than amazing!!! (Hudson Valley Music).
I must admit that they were pretty good.
As I recall we ate at “The Quiet Man“, an Irish Pub.
Very animated guitarist.
Drummer.
Guitarist and lead singer looking very cool in his sunglasses.
Spectators.
This little guy was dancing up a storm.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
An Escalator
We went into New York City to see a production of what turned out to be an extremely good production of “Kiss Me Kate”. I was waiting for my wife in Grand Central Terminal – leaning on a railing at the top of an escalator. As I looked down it occurred to me to take a picture of the people on the escalator. There was also a small triangular area (top left in the pictures) where people would from time to time pass by. I wanted to include that too.
These two pictures are what I ended up with. The first one clearly show the two women on the escalator as well as the man passing by. However, it doesn’t give much sense of movement. The second also shows figures on the escalator and in the triangular area. It shows the movement much more, but I think it’s a bit too blurry and indistinct. I don’t think either of them is quite right, but I prefer the first one. If I had it to do again I think I’d try to come up with something in between: something that captures some of the movement (but not too much).
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
New York Street Scene
Taken with an Olympus XA.
Hallowe’en paintings
Every year at Hallowe’e the children of Briarcliff Manor come out and decorate the windows of the village stores with their paintings. Here’s a selection of their work.
15 images taken with an iphone 5s and combined in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.