Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Ansonia on Broadway at 74th was once a famous New York hotel catering primarily to the arts community. Enrico Caruso, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Florenz Ziegfeld, Theodore Dreiser, and Babe Ruth (an artist of a different stripe, [heh, heh, ;-)]) all called it home at one time or another. Today it is condos. It is typically described as "a 1904 Beaux Arts masterpiece," seemingly dropped into the upper West Side direct from Paris. It is a magnificent sight from the 20th floor of a hotel just across the street. At dawn (M3 40mm Nokton - f1.4 @ 1/60th) http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/1_34_0223_web Shortly after sunrise (M3 15mm Heliar f5.6 at 1/250th if I remember correctly) http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/2_31A_0187_web This is the bottom half of the negative. The upper half is all sky. I took shot after shot trying to get people into interesting places in that splash of light at street level. New Yorkers on an early Sunday morning are very uncooperative. ;-) Probably should have brought some inflatable people along a la Graham and his ducks and cows. Enjoy! Comments welcome as always. -- Regards, Dick