Up and at 'em

lots on the agenda today.  Get to Hoboken, stop in Manhattan for some photo ops on the way, watch the Ravens win and the Skins lose. Day was planned to start at at 4AM, which it actually sort of did but a check of the NYC weather showed snow was supposed to stop by 5AM so no sense rushing for that.  Back in the sack until 6AM, on the road by 6:45. Probably good I delayed two hours the NJTP south of exit 6 was an ice rink with cars in all sorts of places they wern't supposed to be. I am sure the two hour delay made my own passage far less stressful.

Parked on Mulberry and Spring, sort of the ven part of the diagram that would be the Bowery, Little Italy, Soho and Chinatown.  Finished about noon, headed to the W in Hoboken and watched the games, popping off a few snaps before the Ravens and Skins games. Multitasked the games and the images. A big load heading to smugmug, 154 to be exact - that is out of 1200+, since I was bracketing there were really was only a third of that. Click on the snap below to zoom off to the gallery.

For the technically inclined, all with the 5D Mk III, with the only lens I brought with me (70-300L) at 1600 ISO, apertures generally north of f/8.0 with a few maybe at f/5.3.  ISO 1600 you scoff, you wouldn't know unless I told you so. With a 154 of them I think they are pretty damn good. Also becuase there were so many not one saw Photoshop, all done in Lightroom 4.  

For the less technical inclined, being uploaded from the bar at the W in Hoboken whilst a Beefeater Martini, shaken not stirred, with a twist, is being consumed.

Gary and Danny

Met these two guys on Wolf and Thames Streets today.  They were involved with the cranes that were placing equipment on the roof of the new apartments under construction there. A couple of snaps of them and the rest from today in the gallery.  Click here or on their snap below to jet off to the gallery.

BTW, a little different from my normal street configuration, one zoom (70-300L) on the 5D Mk III.

Clothespins

Suedo Hopper or Gretchen Dow Simpson or so I would like to think.  Wells Beach. dans le style d'un safari en Afrique.  This is the one shot the whole Maine trip was about, it is much harder than I thought to find vernacluar beach architecture with the enormous number of "cottages" that have now displaced the "first growth" structures.

 Another from Biddeford Pool

Cap'n Lords

My Kennebunkport accomodations.  Second floor front corner, fitiningly wrapping around the utility cables. With the 24 TS-E on the Gitzo.

The penultimate leftmost component of a in-room pano. Colors are going to be challenging, color cast from incandescent, compact flourescent, whatever. Fuax platinum perhaps. BTW, the bed is about as high as my 6'5" navel.

Next door, Cap'n Jefferds

Smitten with Evans...

Still on the Walker Evans kick.  Enough to divert to eastern Pennsylvania on the way back from Hoboken last week. Stopped in Easton at the Northampton Avenue Bridge to Phiillpsburg and St. Michael's Cemetary on Fourth Street in Bethlehem. The InstaTone neat tech in the Topaz Labs photoFXLab sems to have pretty much emulated the 30's black and white look based on the LOC images.  5D Mk III, 24 TS-E f/3.5L II.

Cruise Control

'59 Caddoooo Eldo Rag Top,  Main Street, Annapolis, this AM.

Pull to Cruise

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