Curved

The prompt for today brought to mind the subway- this time the above ground part. Is it still a subway then?

Today's curved platform is one I come to often this year and is the above  part of my "under" from the other week. 

And then there are the curved lights 😎

Angle

Finding the right angle to share the snow and its effect on the day to day travels to and from work is reflected in these two photos. Every part of the day has had aspects of either coping with the snow or snow removal.

The trains ran slowly yesterday creeping into the Lexington Ave station and crawling out again. Today they were running at their regular speed. 














The food cart was at the end of the street the school is in in the Bronx. You can see the two stools placed so that customers can sit in comfort. I don't know how comfortable it'd be amidst the great mound of snow.

A favorite

How does one choose a favorite?

I decided on  whim that i should photograph a few of my larger art pieces. Not things i have personally created but things that are special for me.

 This painting was done by Giz James and is the view from our former apartment 37B. Love it :)

Then there is the painting I bought in Santa Fe years ago that reminds me of Australia's wide open plains.

...and then the great poster of Martha's work :)

Finally the poster from an unusual (for me) piece of Rodin's work and exhibition from Paris.

Space

The Times Square Alliance workers have been working long and hard to create this space.
I know it's their job but goodness they have done an amazing job in a very short space of time.







I have never seen so few people in Times Square at this time of day :)

The Sanitation Department have done a great job on some streets now the joy of icy pavements and icicles appearing in all manner of places.

Dappled?

Well finding a shot that enabled a dappled effect was not going to happen.

Dappled light is produced when sunlight is filtered through the leaves of trees. The dapples result not because tree leaves have
elliptical holes in them but rather because the leaves combine to make many tiny pinhole cameras, which then produce multiple images of the sun's surface on nearby projection surfaces. Thus each dapple is an image of the surface of the sun. If there is a large sunspot on the surface on the sun, that spot will appear within each dapple.

A little research later and given I was inside during a major blizzard finding or creating this kind of effect was impossible...

So just kick back and savour the moments and the fact that I am in the warm and dry... I have plenty of craft tasks and plenty of preparation for work..lots of food and water...time throughout the day to capture the amazing effects of snow.

 I ventured down as far as the revolving door to get a couple of photos... venturing out is only going to happen tomorrow.

Artificial light

Just around the corner ... What else could I do?

Backlit

 What is that? Backlit I mean. "The lighting gives the photograph an artistic quality, which makes it stand out from portraiture with flat lighting. The only lightning used is natural light from the sun – no advanced equipment, studio lightning or flash have been used." That's one definition...so I gave it try trying to capture the view that i think is going to become very familiar over the year :)

I tried to capture my lovely present from Santa Fe being backlit but the colour is all wrong however the image is still lovely. Thanks Bernadette and Sue for my lovely gift.