ethanprange : photo diary 7

This will most likely be my last photo diary while I'm here in New York considering I leave on a jet plane tomorrow. I will miss the city more than I care to admit, but I will especially miss taking pictures everyday. There are only so many ways you can capture the beach in San Diego. I have a general interest in photography as an art form and appreciate how it can take particular moments in time and capture a mood or a feeling. I have tried in my photo diaries not only to show the classic spots and places that people know about New York all over the world but also the small side streets, forgotten gems and memorable meals I've encountered. The atmosphere, density, architecture, and people of New York all lend themselves so well to pictures and I'm glad I got to take so many and be able to share them through this platform. I hope to continue taking pictures when I'm back in San Diego, more than I used to. I hope to go beyond my North County stomping grounds and explore share some of the special spots and history San Diego has to offer.

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This photo was taken on the Staten Island Ferry. You can go back and forth for free on this enormous orange boat. It leaves every 15 minutes and even though I caught it on an overcast night, the skyline still left me breathless.

Here are some interior pictures of the Guggenheim, easily the most striking museum in the city.

The photo below is another skyline shot, from the Jacqueline Onassis Reservoir in the very northern section of Central Park. That is the Upper East Side and East Harlem.

I also took the long way one evening into Manhattan not by the tourist trap that is the Brooklyn Bridge but rather the bridge just north, the blue one, the Manhattan. It is covered in graffiti, rumbles and shakes as the trains move over it and has much more personality then its more famous neighbor to the south. It may not be as photogenic, but you get a much better view of the very pretty Brooklyn Bridge as you walk.

I'll conclude with a walk I took on of epic proportions this past Thursday. Broadway. I walked from Bowling Green near the South Ferry Seaport all the way up to 90th street on the Upper West Side, staying on Broadway the whole time. It took me roughly 5 hours, and I think it came out to just over 9 miles. Before you call me crazy, which I may be, I had been wanting to walk this historic street ever since I got lost walking on it my first day in New York. It is the oldest in the city and the only street above 14th that goes against the numbered streets and grid of Manhattan, cutting diagonally through all the famous squares (Union at 4th Avenue, Madison at 5th, Herald at 6th, Times at 7th, Columbus Circle at 8th) which were great places to take a break, until continuing up the west side until it hits a highway just outside of Manhattan island. It was an exhausting but also illuminating adventure and I got to see many things I missed.