Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, brookyn parking, mcdonald ave, photography, school bus nyc, shadow, yellow school bus on March 27, 2012| 1 Comment »
Spring vacation is coming up, so the kids advise leaving the school bus where it is. Being New Yorkers, they learn early the value of a good parking spot. I don’t know if multiple meters have to be fed for an extra-long vehicle – there are special rules for school buses.
Posted in Misc, tagged banners, brooklyn, brooklyn gas station, gowanus, photography, shadow, smith st on March 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The shadows are more interesting than the banners. The harsh late-winter light creates some nice effects.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, grass, irony, moma, museum of modern art, nyc, photography, portraiture, shadow on December 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
that's me on the right; it was very windy
Like yesterday’s picture, today’s includes the photographer’s shadow (i.e., me). It’s a common device, using a shadow as a human stand-in. A couple months ago at MOMA I saw a piece comprised of individually framed snapshots from the 1920’s to 1970’s that caught the photographer’s shadow. Though the grouping of the photographs and their accidental subject matter was anything but casual, they were memorable as a record of a time before photographic irony, and the anonymous subjects, small scale, and shadows made the snapshots seem especially ephemeral. Last week I visited the museum and experienced impermanence firsthand; the photos were no longer up.
Pix and other images 