June 2020 – Sherry Felix

Sculptures

2020-06-21Sherry Felix6 Comments

What are these? Hint: I photographed them at home. They’re both of the same thing.

Local Flora

2020-06-122020-06-12Sherry Felix10 Comments

I processed the Allium two ways to show that color creates a mood. I know the Ailanthus is considered to be a weed tree, but I love it. It shades us from the sun in our 3^rd floor apartment.

Wood Siding

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A couple of old houses

The late 18 c. or early 19^th 121 Charles Street (link: brick underground.com) has a fascinating history. GVHS also has an excellent write-up on 121 Charles Street.

Ac cross the street from 121 is a building with a huge roof garden. I love how it spills over the walls.

132 Charles Street was built in the 1899. Both these old houses have wooden sidings, as do a only a few others in Greenwich Village.

For Norm’s Thursday Doors

Lonely Streets

2020-06-102020-06-10Sherry Felix15 Comments

Seeing the shops boarded up and few people around it feels almost deserted. I thought it strange to see the cellist returned to his usual spot pre-pandemic.

Westbeth for artists is also in the Village. Part of the old High Line is shown here. Check out the link for history.

Charles lane is near the Hudson River in Greenwich Village. “Only one tangible remnant of the Newgate Prison still exists today, the narrow, sidewalk-absented Charles Lane, which marked the northern boundary of the prison property. It appears on this 1885 map, but the City officially mapped it on official records beginning in 1893, when it gained its unusual brick paving.

Charles and Christopher Streets are named for the same man, Charles Christopher Amos, a landowner who had inherited part of Sir Peter warren’s massive Greenwich Village estate in the colonial era. Unusually, the streets were named Christopher, Amos, Charles going north; Amos was renamed West 10th Street as far back as the 1840s.” (source: Forgotten NY) See the old photos and details in Forgotten NY.

Jefferson Market Garden

2020-06-06Sherry Felix22 Comments

I’ve been entertaining myself with tutorials on two Photoshop Panels, The Zone System and Palette Effects by Blake Rudis at the F64 Elite Academy.

The first two images are the results of my first dabble with it. Three and four are before editing. I like the rich and colorful results.

Allim and Iris, Jefferson Market Garden 5/30/2020

Riverside Doors

2020-06-042020-06-05Sherry Felix13 Comments

Riverside Drive in New York City is full of elegant turn of the century mansions and doors. Here are three. The Hendrik Hudson, River Mansion and The Buddhist Church doesn’t have a very nice building, but I like the statue.

For Norm’s Thursday Doors.

The Hendrik Mansion, 380 Riverside Drive 5/28/2020

Optic 2020 June 7

2020-06-012020-06-02Sherry Felix12 Comments

I love the annual Optic Conference. This year Optic 2020, organized by David Brommer, is digital and anyone can join to watch the presentations or enter images for critiques and prizes starting on June 7. I highly recommend it to all you photographers out there.

Here are my entries for possible critiques in 9 categories: