NY Artist Gives Time Lapse Photography A New Twist

There was a story on the CBS's Sunday Morning news magazine about a local photographer Steven Wilkes. He has an unusual approach to photography which creates stunning photos like the one above. Wilkes rents a Condor crane and sits atop it for 16 hours, taking hundreds of photographers of a New York City scene both during the day and night. Then he composites all these pictures into one super-sized photo in which day transitions into night, from left to right. Though it takes one day to take the pictures, it takes months to paste them together and recreate a "time-lapse" photo of, as is the case above, a day in the park. Gorgeous.

Merry Christmas From New York's Central Park

No, you're not dreaming.  It's not a white Christmas this year.  This photo is from January 12, 2011, of one of this year's many winter snowstorms.  However, despite the freak snow of October 29th, there hasn't been a flake since.  So I thought I'd make this my "online" Christmas post in hope of some of the white stuff this weekend.  Wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

Walking In A Central Park Wonderland

I had a meeting up near Columbus Circle this morning so, after it was over, I felt inspired to take a stroll through a newly snowy Central Park.  Even though the big storm had stopped only a few hours before, after dumping more than a foot on the city, the Park wasn't exactly the pristine wonderland I was hoping for. There were plenty of tracks through the powder and lots kids sledding down the "mountains", as I overheard one group of toddlers call them.  But it was still a pretty beautiful and wintry wonderland.  And there were photographers everywhere!

Anyway, thought I'd share some of my pics from today. Enjoy!  :)