Posted by Nataly (Santa Monica, United States) on 12 May 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.
WHY DO WE LOVE LIVING IN MANHATTAN? IT MUST BE THE VIEW...
A great shot, you just cant beat inner city living!
12 May 2008 4:34am
@Rhys: Thank you, Rhys!
This is so cool Nataly !! we've seen a lot of skyscrapers shots, but this one is very original and abstract, I love your composition and the perfect symmetry of the windows !! great one !!
12 May 2008 5:10am
Well I would like to say I used to live in NY!!, but I was actually studying filmmaking for a couple of years... Now I'm trying to get an artist visa to go back !! (cross my fingers) I think NY is one of the most interesting places in the world, there's so many things going on there!! On the other side I will love to go back to keep improving my english !!! (sorry about all my possible mistakes)
12 May 2008 12:28pm
I would love to live in a modern apartment building like this- no yards to maintain, no roots in the sewer lines, or skunks getting beneath the crawl space. But I know somewhere in the back of my mind, I'll miss the bungalows of South Pasadena...
12 May 2008 2:10pm
@Howard F.: Oh, Howard, I was actually sarcastic about enjoying the view... I lived in NY for many years, and at some point it gets under your skin... You love it and you hate it. It took me a while to get used to LA, but now going back to NY I appreciate California so much more. It is very optimistic place, and now days LA is a very exciting place to live as well. It is very fast growing city with fast growing culture. But living in NY is a great experience and I think everybody should have a piece of it.
It's called 'Brutalist' architecture for a reason :-)
(PS - if you are interested in architectural photography there's a great little photoshop plug-in called PTLens that's brilliant for correcting lens distortion in this type of shot where straight lines end up wavy...I use it all the time for this kind of thing and it comes in handy for correcting horizons on landscape shots of the sea too))
14 May 2008 7:40am
@Ian Bramham: Thank you very much, Ian. ...In this particular case I didn`t try just to show architecture, but the life of NYC and it`s lives. And the curvy and distorted lines work well here. I would`ve used a Fish Eye, if I had one then... But I appreciate your link which I will put in use... You are always so helpful and supportive. I am grateful for that!
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