Posts Tagged ‘Manhattan’
screaming for solace
– photo by Mitch Waxman
With any luck, by the time you are reading this post (which was written on September 18th) Newtown Pentacle HQ has been reassembled in our new digs. Our Lady of the Pentacle and myself are most likely exhausted and crispy around the edges, but regular work and postings of substance will resume Monday the 3rd. look forward to couple of more shorties and then get ready to get back in session.
By the way, Halloween is coming, and if anybody has any good ghost stories to tell (set in Astoria, Maspeth, LIC, Greenpoint, etc.), I’d love to hear them. Shoot me a missive here.
Nuts
at the Central Park Zoo – photo by Mitch Waxman
There really is nothing to say on this one.
presiding dryads
at the Central Park Zoo – photo by Mitch Waxman
As you are reading this, a feverish effort by your humble narrator to tuck the household into neat little boxes is under way. Glorious secretions of treasure and exertions of profound manual labor are under way. The scene around here resembles the anticlimax of “how the Grinch Stole Christmas” wherein the protagonist straps his little dog to an overladen sleigh, although I believe that my little dog Zuzu is merely humoring me and plans to just let me pull the thing up the hill.
dusk of the corridor
at the Central Park Zoo – photo by Mitch Waxman
Using the same vignette technique discussed yesterday, but this time with a distant focus and lowered POV. Notice how the birds seem to take on gargantuan size, as if they are very far away? If a few model railroad trees and structures were tossed in, wouldn’t this look like a mid 60’s Godzilla set?
a chaotic whirl
at the Central Park Zoo – photo by Mitch Waxman
It is a difficult proposition, shooting into what is essentially a giant fish tank, which is out doors and in the presence of a crowd. I experimented with extending the lens hood on my lens (one of those flexible silicone rubber sorts) and placing it flush on the glass. I left the lens at its widest angle and lowest f stop and shot at a ludicrous 3200 iso speed. I think it’s kind of neat with the vignetting forming the circular pattern.
The Newtown Pentacle 