[Leica] Ansonia Hotel

[bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)]

What a baroque extravaganza, Dick.

Looks like it's been plucked from Barcelona ................

Great ideas and interesting perspectives, thanks.

They're either in bed, at mass or g-gone ............... for the week- 
end!

B.

On 17-mrt-2006, at 17:25, Richard S. Taylor wrote:

> 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
>
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