"Empire of the Night"
The Empire State building,
the iconic structure associated with New York City,
in all its' night-time splendor.
The majority of my commute to work each day consists of a ride on the Long Island Railroad, from Seaford to Penn Station. These commutes have constituted a large part of each day spent working over the last 29 years. When I first started working in the city, in the summer of '81, my commute began and ended at the Hempstead train station, usually necessitating the dreaded 'change at Jamaica".
Fortunately I moved back to the Massapequa's in '87, along with my pregnant-at-the-time, now ex-wife Catherine, which added a new expression to my lexicon: "Change at Babylon for the train to Speonk." I love the word Speonk; it has a such an onomatopoeic quality - it sounds like a donkey with a speech impediment, to me.
Tuesday night I arrived at Penn Station with time to kill, as I often do, before my 12:39 train to Seaford (no Speonk connection available for that particular milk train). So I waited outside of the entrance on the corner of 33rd St. and 8th Ave, smoked a cigarette (two, actually) and shot a few pictures of the Empire State building.
Links:
"Empire of the Night" prints available here.
More about the Empire State Building.
More about the Long Island Railroad.
More about Seaford, NY.
Links:
"Empire of the Night" prints available here.
More about the Empire State Building.
More about the Long Island Railroad.
More about Seaford, NY.
Camera Data
Canon
Canon EOS 5D
1/10 second
F/4.0
60 mm
1600
Nov 16, 2010, 1:20:26 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
29mm
Canon EOS 5D
1/10 second
F/4.0
60 mm
1600
Nov 16, 2010, 1:20:26 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
29mm
