{"id":637,"date":"2017-05-19T07:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/new-york-new-york\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T06:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:46:28","slug":"new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/new-york-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City, a place filled with photographic possibilities. And a city I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be getting back to anytime soon after my last visit back in  2013. Sure it took five years, but I managed to get back, on my honeymoon no less! And my awesome wife Heather even let me bring some toys along. And by toys I mean cameras. I went loaded for bear, the trusty Nikon FA three AI-S lenses (35, 50, and 105) and lots of photographic film.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/33718277223\/in\/album-72157680348366714\/\" title=\"Greatly Inscribed\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4194\/33718277223_72d775727e_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" alt=\"Greatly Inscribed\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/34143137950\/in\/album-72157680348366714\/\" title=\"Dames &amp; Dragons\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4186\/34143137950_8ae4c633fd_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" alt=\"Dames &amp; Dragons\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now usually when I go shooting buildings in a city I tend to capture the full view of the building, getting as wide as I possibly can. This time around I couldn&#8217;t do that for a couple of reasons. The first being that the streets in New York, especially in Manhattan, are packed with tall skyscrapers that just don&#8217;t allow for the full capture of their grandeur. That is unless you have an ultra-wide angle lens. The widest lens I had with me was my 35mm lens, which while good for some of the shorter buildings just wouldn&#8217;t cut it elsewhere. And for some of the stuff I was shooting I needed my 14-24mm lens and either the F5 and F90, neither of which makes for an excellent travel camera when you&#8217;re on your honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/34143138280\/in\/album-72157680348366714\/\" title=\"Ornate\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4185\/34143138280_a9fd8ba120_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" alt=\"Ornate\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/34143132890\/in\/album-72157680348366714\/\" title=\"A U Properly Shapped\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4186\/34143132890_312dc66b19_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" alt=\"A U Properly Shapped\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So I decided to take a different approach than what I usually do and got in closer. Because in New York, in the older buildings the details are just as important as the big picture. Having the 105mm and a roll of Japan Camera Hunter Streetpan 400, I went in for the shot while Heather and I made our way north on 5th Avenue towards the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And what a place to shoot buildings, from Sak&#8217;s Fifth Avenue to the Art Deco flagship store for Tiffany &#038; Co. Guilded Age skyscrapers to cathedrals of worship. This was a part of New York I had not spent much time in the past.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/34143135680\/in\/album-72157680348366714\/\" title=\"St. Patrick Details\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4162\/34143135680_6f50590fb7_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" alt=\"St. Patrick Details\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/34143134310\/in\/album-72157680348366714\/\" title=\"Remains of Things Past\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4160\/34143134310_874fe4ea6d_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" alt=\"Remains of Things Past\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course standing out like a sore thumb is Trump Tower, and I prided myself at not getting any sort of photo of the glass monstrocity. As the 80&#8217;s were a horrible decade for fashion, they were pretty terrible for architecture also. Give me gilded age or art deco, the classics. Heck, I even find beauty in the brutalist nature of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/34143132250\/in\/album-72157680348366714\/\" title=\"The Tiffany &amp; Co. Clock\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4183\/34143132250_9d759661eb_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" alt=\"The Tiffany &amp; Co. Clock\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/axle81401\/33685969074\/in\/album-72157680348366714\/\" title=\"Rose Window\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4179\/33685969074_96d004eb5f_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" alt=\"Rose Window\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Nikon FA &#8211; AI-S Nikkor 105mm 1:2.5 &#8211; JCH Streetpan 400 @ ASA-400 &#8211; Kodak HC-110 Dil. B 5:00 @ 20C<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City, a place filled with photographic possibilities. And a city I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be getting back to anytime soon after my last visit back in 2013. Sure it took five years, but I managed to get back, on my honeymoon no less! And my awesome wife Heather even let me bring some toys along. And by toys I mean cameras. I went loaded for bear, the trusty Nikon FA three AI-S lenses (35, 50, and 105) and lots of photographic film. Now usually when I go shooting buildings in a city I tend to capture the full view of the building, getting<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/new-york-new-york\/\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[664,1359,234,132,1360,295,372,542,39,793,1282,201,1283],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}