NY Through the Lens - New York City Photography

Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Hewes Street.

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With layers of dirt and paint under our nails from constantly peeling back the layers of this city, it’s not the stars we seek.

It’s the light that seeps through…

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New York City skyscrapers and a bird. Midtown.

Birds have a synchronous relationship with the city.

They fly with such brazen freedom through the man-made caverns soaring above the frenetic flow of the city below.

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New York City skyline skyscrapers on a hazy day.

Pretty excited to announce this!

I am now officially working for Camera+.

Everyone who reads my blog regularly probably knows that I love using Camera+ for my mobile photography needs. So, to be able to directly work with Camera+ is a dream come true. I did a project for them a few months back and was hired officially this past week.

While I technically work for Tap Tap Tap, the company that produces Camera+ and a variety of other great apps, I am mainly doing support for Camera+ and have been working hard to compile and grow an ever-expanding knowledge base as well.

Good times! Sorry for the repetition if you have been following along where I already announced this on my Facebook profile a few nights back. Also, if you want, check out the Camera+ Facebook Page. There will be more posts there in the future.

And, of course, to accompany this announcement, I am sharing one of my favorite photos I have taken and edited with Camera+ of the New York City skyline. Seems appropriate :).

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New York City in the rain. Flatiron District, Midtown.

There is an inherent romance that buzzes through the air in New York City when it rains.

The Flatiron District is one of my favorite areas in Manhattan when it rains. The street (5th Avenue) opens up to reveal distant skyscrapers that disappear into heavy fog as people weave their way through the multitudes of umbrellas.

The clock in this image is the Fifth Avenue Building Clock (a close-up image and its history is in this post) which is a New York City landmark and recalls another era: one where these ornamental clocks played a role in attracting people to gilded era storefronts. This vantage point is with the Flatiron Building directly in back of the viewer looking up 5th Avenue.

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I have had quite a few requests that I add some of my New York City mobile photography to my online store and portfolio since people are looking to buy holiday gifts. This is the first of one of those requests. It was taken with my phone and has been lovingly added (link below!).

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Autumn. New York City. Above Union Square.

On cloudy days in autumn, the trees stick out from the ground below like paintbrushes heavy with memories of the sun’s embrace.

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I love this view of Union Square Park looking towards the Empire State Building and the beautiful skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan. It’s particularly gorgeous in the autumn when the trees change color before descending gracefully to the ground.

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The New York City skyline at sunset as seen from the East River. Financial District.

The skyscrapers clamor to watch night after night, from their front row seat, as the sun’s light dances across the river.

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This was taken with my phone. I am @newyorklens on Instagram (view my feed here). Check out my other phone photography posts made to this blog, and my mobile photography photos on Flickr.

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The New York City skyline. Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The soft light of the sun rises slowly kissing the horizon before ascending into the sky.

And the city, awash in the sleepy glow of night’s embrace, glistens in the bleary-eyed blink of dawn’s eye.

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This photo was taken with my phone and edited with Camera +. I am @newyorklens on Instagram (view my feed here). Check out my other phone photography posts made to this blog, and my mobile photography photos on Flickr.

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Sunset on the beach at Coney Island. Brooklyn, New York City.

While the last of summer’s sun pours itself onto the earth touching the ocean with its warmth, autumn waits with baited breath lingering above in the blue of the sky.

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This photo was taken with my phone and edited with Camera +. I am @newyorklens on Instagram (view my feed here). Check out my other phone photography posts made to this blog here. You can check out all of my mobile photography photos on Flickr here. Additionally, you can view my phone photography for sale here.

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The Flatiron Building rising from the shadows. New York City.

Out of the shadows, the city rises proudly into the sunlight that casts its glow on the structures borne out of the aspirations and hopes of urban dreamers.

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This photo was taken with my phone and edited with Camera + and Snapseed. I am @newyorklens on Instagram (view my feed here). Check out my other phone photography posts made to this blog here. You can check out all of my mobile photography photos on Flickr here. Additionally, you can view my phone photography for sale here.

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Sunset over the Brooklyn Bridge and the New York City skyline.

I love it when the sun touches the tops of the buildings in New York City on its evening descent. Its light spreads through every part of the city casting the most beautiful glow.

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This photo was taken with my phone. I am @newyorklens on Instagram (view my feed here). Check out my other Instagram posts made to this blog here. You can check out all of my Instagram photos on Flickr here. Additionally, you can view my phone photography for sale here.

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Over East Broadway on a busy, sunny afternoon. Two Bridges. Lower East Side, New York City.

There are streets that, for me, fill in the image of New York City that exists in my mind.

I have spoken about this before in older posts. Everyone seems to have their own image of New York City that, for them, represents so much more than just the geographical spot that New York City inhabits on any sort of map.

It took me about a year of thinking about my own approach to New York City with photography and via writing to figure out what I was trying to do every time I took a photo of this city I have called home since my birth. But now I know and it has changed my own view of my surroundings.

It’s not easy to attempt to distill something as enormous a concept or location as New York City into visual and tangible emotion but that is what I try to do with every photo I feel proud enough to post, whether it is taken with my phone (like the photo in this post) or with my regular camera.

I will post a few companion photos to this one later this week (that I took with my regular camera) and expand further about what this street means to me currently.

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This is my weekly mobile photography post. I am @newyorklens on Instagram (view my feed here). You can read about my thoughts on mobile photography and Instagram here and you can check out some of my Instagram photos on Flickr here. Additionally, you can view my phone photography for sale here.

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