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September 12, 2011 | Personal,Street Photography

9/11

I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge to area where the service was being held and here are few images from that walk on the ten year anniversary of 9/11. The fire department marching back to their fire house down Park Row just off Broadway after opening ceremony. Needless to say it was a very emotional day for many in and around ground zero. Walter was greeter at Trinity Church where many people gathered and attended services. The field of flags a flag for every one who died on 9/11. The new building finally being rising from the ashes. The USS New York LPD-21 anchored in the Hudson river and people lighting candles on the promenade in Brooklyn at make shift memorials. With the tribute of lights reaching skyward.

Geraldo Robeza:

Great clarification. I really like to read it Marcy

February 19, 2012 1:10 pm
ChristopherDavid:

Pretty powerful reportage Kevin. Thank you for this!

September 14, 2011 3:24 pm

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April 12, 2011 | Street Photography

Dumbo on a Rainy Day

DUMBO, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. “The Arch” is a glorious public space. A 65-foot-high tunnel through the Manhattan Bridge from Adams to Pearl Street. Came across this person under the Arch practicing their tai-chi on rainy Sunday morning. While out for my Sunday morning GOYA walk around Dumbo the rain picked up and out came the umbrellas. Some places stayed a little dryer than others under the bridge.

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March 29, 2011 | Street Photography

Locks of Love (candados del amor)

A pop cultural sensation that has turned bridges, rails or fences into a locksmith’s paradise has jumped across the Atlantic and to the Brooklyn Bridge. Locks of Love (candados del amor) or love locks have starting appearing on the Brooklyn Bridge over the last few years. The custom involves two lovers, a padlock and a fence or significant landmark of some kind. The subsequent bond of lock to fence symbolizes of course, eternal commitment. From Europe to North America, Asia to Oceania, dozens of love padlock sites now dot the globe. Now an international tradition, “love padlocks” began humbly in the 1980s in the Hungarian town of Pécs. The tradition didn’t seem to take off until the movie version of “Tre Metri Sopra il Cielo” came out in 2004. As per the story, a young man trying to win heart of a girl, tells her that there is a tradition of putting a padlock in an old bridge in Rome, and tossing the key in the river makes their love last forever. This started a new trend and couples began putting their locks onto a street lamp on Ponte Milvio. From what I could see people from around the world have left signs of their beloved devotion to each other on the Brooklyn Bridge for others to enjoy.

ChristopherDavid:

Kevin! I love this series!

January 25, 2012 10:47 am

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February 01, 2011 | Street Photography

The destruction of umbrella’s

Some where between snow storm five and six I believe it was, I ventured out to do some photography on the street. It was during this recent winter rain storm that umbrellas were annihilated. Umbrellas were little help against the rain and winds of this storm. The corner vendors dry weather two dollar umbrella that turns into the five dollar umbrella when it rain or snows was no match at all. The life span of the five dollar umbrella is about about five minutes as well. These umbrellas were found in and around Columbus Park in downtown Brooklyn not far from where I live.

ChristopherDavid:

What a cool idea for a street project!

January 25, 2012 10:49 am

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January 01, 2011 | Street Photography

01-01-11 Freezin’ for a reason!

The weather held out for the Coney Island Polar Bear annual swim. The water was a chilly 38° while the air was about 45°. There were plenty of swimmers and lots of people supporting the swimmers. The Polar Bear Club is the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States. Though temperatures were higher than usual for New Year’s Day, the Polar Bears said it the water was still plenty cold and invigorating. The swim benefited Camp Sunshine, an organization from Maine that helps children with life-threatening illnesses.

Coney Island, Coney Island Polar Bear Club, Winter Bathing, Freezin' for a reason,

This guys walked on his hand into chilly water.

The swimmers and supporters heading home.

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September 18, 2010 | Personal,Street Photography

A taste of the San Gennaro Festival

It’s time for the Annual Feast of San Gennaro, New York City’s longest-running, biggest and most revered religious outdoor festival in the United States, it runs till Sunday, September 26, 2010, on the streets of historic Little Italy, the lower Manhattan. It is a festive period of faith and redemption, a time for remembrance and reconciliation, and a time for celebration. The delicious food, the free musical entertainment that reflects Italian-American culture and heritage are all there. The Feast brings the world to Little Italy and Little Italy to the world. Not that I’m Italian or anything like that. It was an exciting adventure. They estimated about 100,000 to 150,ooo were in attendance

A friend of gave me an ebook by David duChemin to read. It got me to thinking it’s time to try something new. So here are the rules that I came up with for this self assignment and they are like this: one camera body, one lens 50mm, set to one ƒ stop ( I chose ƒ 2.0 because I could), ISO set to 640. So to get proper exposure had to use the shutter speeds. So off to the festival and below is what I came back with. Most of the images are straight out of camera with a few basic corrections for color and exposure applied to them in Aperture. Enjoy!

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Cigar rollin'

Good eats

Sweet Treats

Sweet Drink's

Even Fried Oreo's

Some like their Sausage a little extra hot

San Gennaro the Patron Saint of Naples

admin:

Thanks!

September 20, 2010 4:36 pm
Bjorn Dalin (former Green):

Hi Kevin,

That looks great! Good photography Back to basic. Just react to the situation and read the light. I like.

I have to tell that when I teach photography at beginners level I always tell my students about the first occassion I assisted you. It was a shoot at the Astoria hotel by Central Park. You were to shoot some sheik who owned the hotel at the time. We set up light in the lobby. Two flashes in the background and one main light for him. While you ran back and forth to control the light you told me to change the lens on the Hasselblad to the 50 mm lens. I did so and let the camera sit on a tripod.

The Sheik arrives and you shake his hand and grab the camera and the tripod. And the 50 mm lens falls off the camera on to the marble floor. I felt devastated so stupid. You checked the lens and put it back on to the camera. One advantage of using a famous expensive brand is the quality. Miraculously the lens was without a scratch! The shoot went well and we worked quite a few times together and I did really enjoy.

The point of the story is that you always have to check when you change lenses that it sits firmly on to the camera. That you passed the “click” when screwing on the lens.

Take care! Greetings from Sweden
/Björn

September 20, 2010 12:40 pm
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September 19, 2010 2:08 pm
Bill Murray:

Wonderful! I can almost smell the food!

You may enjoy duChemin’s 3-day course on CreativeLive.com

September 19, 2010 12:19 pm

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September 13, 2010 | Personal,Street Photography

Piper Serenades Rush Hour

During my travels I found this gentleman playing the bag pipes. He was on the corner of 23rd and 5th avenue in New York in front of the Toy Building and across the street from Madison Square Park home of the Shake Shack.