distant baying
Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
May 8th found one in need of a short walk, and in tune with my recent habits, one left HQ shortly before sunset. Here I am at “hole reliable” over the Harold Interlocking again, shooting yet another west bound Long Island Railroad train.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
My goal for the evening was to definitively stay away from Newtown Creek and its tributaries, and just stick to the mean streets of along Island City. The sky lit up, and as seems to be the case these days, while shooting somebody walked up to me and wanted to discuss cameras he has owned, plans to buy, and also ones used by his dad.
I excused myself after a few excruciating minutes, professing that I was losing the light. Grrrr…
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Skillman Avenue led me to Thomson Avenue, where I got this shot. It’s actually a damned difficult proposition getting this shot with zero automobiles in the frame, as a note.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Thomson Avenue led me back down to Jackson Avenue, where I experienced another one of those moments of sudden existential horror you tend to feel in LIC these days. Ten years ago, the Citigroup Megalith was the only large scale building here. Today, it’s actually somewhat middling in size as compared to what’s been built around it.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Swinging through Queens Plaza, I noticed the 7 train perched above several of those automobiles in the travel lanes below it. I didn’t see any of the vampires though.
One continued his lonely scuttle towards Astoria, using Jackson Avenue to eventually get to Northern Blvd.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
One headed back towards home, walked past a bar which I don’t seem to hang out at anymore that’s filled with people whom I’m increasingly disenchanted with. Ribald invitations to join their nightly bacchanal were rejected, and a humble narrator retreated to the nearby cloister of HQ.
Pfah.
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The midtown Manhattan skyline now looks like random pegs stuck into the dirt. The Queensboro Bridge must wonder at how its view has changed over the last century.
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June 30, 2022 at 9:30 pm