Triborough Bridge

I generally don't like to post images taken from my iPhone on this blog... that is what my iphone camera blog is for. But in the last couple of days I have purchased quite a few photo apps for the iPhone that have recently appeared on the iTunes App store. It's really amazing to me what kind of images you can get out of the stock iPhone camera with a little help from some of these powerful filters. 10 years ago I would have loved to have had some of these filters on a regular desktop/laptop... now I can do it on my phone and upload directly to this blog shortly after taking it and manipulating. Truly amazing times we live in.

Within Eye Shot

I was outside Barcelona Bar in New York with a friend of mine when I noticed the large blue neon shot glass in the window of the bar was reflecting perfectly in her eyes. I thought it was an interesting shot... so I made her pose and look in different directions until I had the one that worked best. This was tough as the camera was hand held and the shot was very dark, but the Canon IS helped quite a bit. The colors in this shot are true and there was very little manipulation other than croping and contrast.

New York Fireworks

Happy Independence Day! This is a photo I took on last year's 4th. Today is cloudy so this year may suck for photo ops.

More New York Lightning

I love to photograph lightning. I took this about an hour ago. It's such a chance game... and a little stupid on my part for taking the picture in my bare feet holding on to a metal tripod. The only thing missing was a lightning rod in my hand to attract the lightning with. "Heeeerrrrre flashy flashy flashy!" Boom! I hope you enjoy my stupidity.

Tunnel Vision

Got a new lens today. This is one of the first images from it. A very over photographed subject, but just wanted to get some test images. All in all, a pretty nice piece of glass. It's a Canon EF-S 17-55mm f2.8. I hemmed and hawed about which lens I wanted to get as Canon makes a few in this wide to mid zoom range, but when I read the specs of all of them, this one had the best resolution, contrast, and brightness (f-stop). If you have the means and a Canon DSLR with an APS sized sensor... I highly recommend. I'm sure there will be more images from this lens in the very near future. Here are a few great websites for lens reviews for Canon.

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/
http://www.photozone.de/