Have some more coffee, Lil Mikie.
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Arn, those are some totally cool pictures/perspectives.
I'll have to try that perspective out from inside an Aspen grove... or something similar
I was hoping all you lucky folks that live in those beautiful natural surroundings would shoot at that perspective as I can only imagine what the outdoors would look like during the day and the night (those stars)……sunset.Arn, those are some totally cool pictures/perspectives.
No arm-twisting needed for that to happen!!!!Have some more coffee, Lil Mikie.
I guess Merle Haggard didn't sing that! Never seen it on one of his albums/8-tracks/cd's!!!!
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Laisse-moi te dire - Lil Mikey don't spill no coffee! Cest moi That and coffee and eggs are too precious!!
View from the top of an apple tree. Continuing pruning this tree, ladder isn't tall enough, so have to climb to get near the top. Around 20 feet up for these pics.
Tim @trc65, here are the rest of the photo set on this building you asked about, 452 Fifth Avenue. Look at the curve glass on those bay windows with the cast iron dado, cornice and frame surround. Have you ever seen designer scaffolding’s? This one has one in place.
Is that one of those covered sidewalks to keep people from being injured by falling terracotta?
Just for you Li’l Mikey @Mike Hill. Did you see the fancy wands of integrated lights?
If you ever get here, we will test out these designer scaffolding. I’ll go up on the penthouse and drop a bunch of things (bring a brisket) to see if the grate walkway above the side walk holds up. Sheesh these New Yorkers over do it and just to see if this is really an architectural scaffolding and not a decorator scaffolding. Just make sure you are at the corner section of the scaffolding and kind of lean out a little towards the street……
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You mean the LED battens? The scaffolding has a sign on the side that I think says Urban Umbrella or something like that. Then I noticed the roof davits are deployed with lines going down to the scaffold/sidewalk protection. Then noticed a sign on the front that said something about Restoration. I guess the building/buildings are going through exterior renovation. To keep terracotta from falling? 
Boy, you going to get all technical on me. I was throwing decorator terminology in jest GC. Yeah, those glow in the dark sticks that you shake and they come on. Yes, you picked everything up as you stated- can’t get pass anything on you Mr. Foreman. The building has 3 historical building designations/appointments- in state and out of state. This was originally called “The Knox Building”, a hat company. 5th Avenue strip was a fashionable artery from about 14th up to 59th St. back in the day. This was their former headquarters, but they leased sections of office tenants. 1964 ish it was sold to Republic National Bank of New York and then HSBC Bank took over it in the 90’s. I don’t know anything else beyond that. Don’t know what they are restoring, but it is a landmark building (exterior, so you know they can’t really much do anything with that)- I could look it up with the Dept. of Buildings. Don’t worry about the terracotta- there is non there, worry about the bricks and the limestone.
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Across the street is the main New York Public Library. I was offering a photo op to the flying rats, but the black feathered one let me take one and then he gave me the cold shoulder and turned the other way. The nerve of these New Yorkers……sheesh……
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That's cool, we own a few Knox hats from way back - some in their original boxes.
This must be another Knox Headquarters. I think I had heard they were once on Broadway.
I know where that spot is and that corner is a hub now for the subway lines. There are buildings left from that era- the middle section looks like a product of the cast iron era during the Industrial Revolution compare to the building’s on its side. We have tons of those cast iron facades thankfully left. But that section of Fulton St. is where New York started (New Amsterdam) and the streets and avenues from that area (financial district) to south of Houston St. is not in grid format. Very small, very narrow, angular, etc. North of Houston St. is where the grid format started (sometime in the early 19th century). A lot of those stores like that if it is still there, they leave the signage intact or whatever markings that is in the building that it specialized on, in order to preserve its history. The WTC is walking distance from where this Knox Store use to be as well as City Hall, Wall Street, etc….
I tried taking similar shots of the same building, 452 Fifth Avenue and wanted to show you how the area has a different vibe late in the evening @trc65 and @Mike Hill. If you look at the last photo, you can just see a peak of the Empire Stare Building Spire and Antennae. Since this is on 40th St. & 5th Ave. Times Square (42nd St.) is walking distance from here- about 10 minutes or so.
This location beng central, that you can hit every major spots from here: The New York Public Library, The Stavros Niarchos Library, Bryant Park, American Radiator Building, Grand Central Terminal, The MetLife Building, The Chrysler Building, The Morgan Library, Empire State Building, Time Square. So if you had one full day to spend, you start right here to see the major attractions…….
This location beng central, that you can hit every major spots from here: The New York Public Library, The Stavros Niarchos Library, Bryant Park, American Radiator Building, Grand Central Terminal, The MetLife Building, The Chrysler Building, The Morgan Library, Empire State Building, Time Square. So if you had one full day to spend, you start right here to see the major attractions…….
Here is a view down 42nd Street (East):
Those are awesome Tim @trc65 and thank you! The shadows of the tree on the 5th and 6th photos are so cool. But, one really is captivating because you captured to me just a perfect composition, balance and controlled of just the right light to get this “halo/shading/gradation” effect- IMHO. The “noir” you will see how well you did capturing the tones from light to dark. If I may do a variation on a theme of your photo…….
Study in gray tones // with color:
Your “midnight blue” version (V1. & V2.) 03-12-25:
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