A personal website (blog) by Khürt Williams, with inchoate ramblings on Apple technology, photography, and geekery.
This past weekend I attended a New York City Bridges Photography Workshop with Loren Fisher and a group of photographers from New York City, New Jersey and Connecticut. The New Jersey group met at the Bridgewater Train Station. Loren drove to Penn Station where we picked a photographer from Weehawken, then we zipped over to…
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Frank Jansen (Dutch goes the Photo!)The challenge for you is to share a Scene with every one of the readers. Please take liberties with this theme and let your Scene be anything that catches your eye and imagination! The challenge is not so much about high drama, as it is about those little moments that make us look twice by being just a bit outside the norm. Of course, should you capture a scene from a play that works too.
It was not a great day for the beach. It was all cloudy skies and cold winds in Belmar. The trip had been planned in advance and I had already taken the day off work. I was in a negative mood about the situation but Bhavna convinced me it was worth it just to take…
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Photo from a field trip to Battery Park (via Paulus Hook) with Princeton Photo Workshop to photograph the Lower Manhattan Cityscape.
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Before checkout, on the day after the wedding we were attending at the Hilton, I took a walk outside and snapped a few images of Spruce Street Harbor Park.
Continue ReadingThe High Line and West Side Rail Yards
Saturday, September 22, 2018, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
(Raindate September 29)Instructor: David Hartz
The High Line, New York's only elevated park, is a brilliantly-conceived conversion of a historic out-of-use railroad trestle into a public landscape. Opened in 1934, the rail track went out of use in 1980 and lay dormant until 2009, when the first section opened. The Highline, planted with wildflowers and grasses, offers photographers some of the best views in New York, intriguing street photography and interesting composition opportunities.
We'll begin with a discussion of composition and camera settings. Your instructor will be with you every step of the way to look at your work and answer questions. Together, we will explore this extraordinary urban park and rail yards while we put into practice the rules of composition to create memorable images.
I've walked the High Line several times and the experience is different each time.
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