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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Central Park North Woods and The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir


Central Park is the essence of Urban Art. I could shoot in this park all day.



















Fort Tryon Park And The Cloisters


My weekly urban hike in search of urban art to capture took me to Washington Heights in my beloved home of New York City. My first visit to the Cloisters located in Fort Tyron Park. What a marvelous wonder with impressive views of the GW bridge.
























Wednesday, August 17, 2016

HDR and Long Exposure Urban Art.


I revisited the Lincoln Memorial while in D.C. for meetings and I got this awesome shot of the Reflecting pool and a beautiful pond adjacent to the pool. I came back to shoot these to scene with long exposures (LE)
















The following LE shots were taken on my Sony Xperia mobile phone  taken in 30 sec to 2 minute exposures using 'Light Trace'


THE SETUP.
This was a spur of the moment shoot to test LE shot on this device using the Light Trace camera app. The photos were then processed in Lightroom CC mobile,














These last two photos from are from the sam set. I just decided to run them through Nik Collections for a filter to see the effect.