Manhattan

High Line – Ghery

Sherry Felix13 Comments

Forth in the Highline series.  This section of the High Line includes the IAC building, designed by Frank Ghery, built in 2007 [Wikipedia – about Frank Gehry  and List of works by Frank Gehry].

On the east side of High Line is a parking lot with a large billboard that has had some interesting art on it over the years.

  1. High Line – Gansevoort
  2. High Line – Chelsea Market
  3. High Line – Standard
  4. High Line – Ghery
  5. High Line – Guardian Angel School
  6. High Line – Middle
  7. High Line – Elevated
  8. High Line – Uptown
  9. High Line – Plants 1
  10. High Line – Plants 2
  11. High Line – Rails
  12. High Line – Evening

References:

Wikipedia.org – High Line
www.thehighline.org/about
park_map.pdf

2011-07-09 High Line 35
2009-08-03 High Line 14
20090803 High Line 18
2011-11-11 High Line 22
2011-11-03 High Line 37
2011-08-04 High Line 12
2012-12-30 Billboard at High Line 16
2013-04-04 Billboard at High Line 05
2011-08-04 High Line 10
2011-06-14 Billboard at High Line 34
2011-06-14 High Line 32
2011-08-04 High Line 11
2011-06-14 High Line 106
2011-11-11 High Line 23

High Line – The Standard

Sherry Felix18 Comments

Third in the Highline series. The Standard Hotel spans the High Line.

  1. High Line – Gansevoort
  2. High Line – Chelsea Market
  3. High Line – Standard
  4. High Line – Ghery
  5. High Line – Guardian Angel School
  6. High Line – Middle
  7. High Line – Elevated
  8. High Line – Uptown
  9. High Line – Plants 1
  10. High Line – Plants 2
  11. High Line – Rails
  12. High Line – Evening

For history see: Wikipedia.org – High Line and www.thehighline.org/about
Map: park_map.pdf

2009-08-03 High Line 06
2011-06-14 High Line 05
2011-06-14 High Line 06
2011-06-14 High Line 09
2011-07-09 High Line 25
2011-07-09 High Line 43
2011-11-03 High Line 12
2011-11-03 High Line 23
2011-11-22 High Line 05
2011-11-22 High Line 17
2011-11-27 High Line 06
2016-03-20 High Line 21
2016-03-20 High Line 24

High Line at Chelsea Market

Sherry Felix21 Comments

Second of the High Line series. A little further north at the Chelsea Market. The colored windows art installation River that Flows Both Ways by Spencer Finch is no longer on display.

  1. High Line – Gansevoort
  2. High Line – Chelsea Market
  3. High Line – Standard
  4. High Line – Ghery
  5. High Line – Guardian Angel School
  6. High Line – Middle
  7. High Line – Elevated
  8. High Line – Uptown
  9. High Line – Plants 1
  10. High Line – Plants 2
  11. High Line – Rails
  12. High Line – Evening

For history see: Wikipedia.org – High Line and www.thehighline.org/about

2009-07-03 High Line 23
2009-07-03 High Line 29
2009-07-03 High Line 30
2009-08-03 High Line 07
2009-08-03 High Line 10
2009-09-07 High Line 20
2011-06-18 High Line 14
2011-06-18 High Line 015
2011-07-09 High Line 29
2011-07-09 High Line 31
2011-07-09 High Line 33
2011-07-09 High Line 34
2011-07-09 High Line 60
2011-07-09 High Line 61
2011-07-09 High Line 62
2011-07-09 High Line 63
2011-07-09 High Line 64
2011-07-09 High Line 66
2011-07-09 High Line 67
2011-07-09 High Line 68
2011-07-30 High Line 19
2011-11-03 High Line 29
2011-11-03 High Line 33
2011-11-03 High Line 34
2011-11-03 High Line 53
2011-11-11 High Line 11
2011-11-11 High Line 16
2011-11-11 High Line 19
2011-11-22 High Line 15
2012-10-10 High Line 19
2012-10-10 High Line 20
2013-04-04 High Line 03
2013-05-30 High Line 20
2015-06-10 High Line 12
2011-07-09 High Line 65

 

High Line – Gansevoort

Sherry Felix25 Comments

This is the first part of a series. The Gansevoort section of the High Line in Manhattan, New York. The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) New York City linear park built in Manhattan on an elevated section of a disused New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line.

  1. High Line – Gansevoort
  2. High Line – Chelsea Market
  3. High Line – Standard
  4. High Line – Ghery
  5. High Line – Guardian Angel School
  6. High Line – Middle
  7. High Line – Elevated
  8. High Line – Uptown
  9. High Line – Plants 1
  10. High Line – Plants 2
  11. High Line – Rails
  12. High Line – Evening

The High Line Park is built on the disused southern portion of the West Side Line running to the Lower West Side of Manhattan. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District, through Chelsea, to the northern edge of the West Side Yard on 34th Street near the Javits Convention Center. An unopened spur extends above 30th Street to Tenth Avenue.

The park’s landscape design was inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew on the out-of-use elevated rail tracks during the 25 years after trains stopped running. The species of perennials, grasses, shrubs and trees were chosen for their hardiness, sustainability, and textural and color variation, with a focus on native species. Many of the species that originally grew on the High Line’s rail bed are incorporated into the park’s landscape. The plants are beautiful in every season.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line and http://www.thehighline.org/about

2011-11-03 High Line
2011-11-11 High Line
2011-11-22 High Line
2011-11-11 High Line
2011-11-03 High Line
2011-11-11 High Line
2011-11-11 High Line
2011-11-27 High Line
2012-05-23 High Line
2011-11-22 High Line
2011-11-22 High Line
2011-11-03 High Line
2011-11-03 High Line
2011-11-11 High Line
2013-02-25 High Line
2013-07-25 High Line
2013-10-26 High Line

Robin AB Friday

Sherry Felix13 Comments

Steps I used to create the after version in Photoshop:

  1. Black and White adjustment layer chose Infrared
  2. Warm photo filter 5%
  3. Hue/saturation adjustment layer Saturation +33
  4. Duplicate robin and mask the bird
  5. Red photo filter 25%
  6. Copy and flatten the layers for use in on!
  7. In on1 Effects (PS add-on) chose “Cans on Shelf” and save back to PS
  8. Underwater Photo filter 56% applied to the on1 layer.

Capture

After: American Robin, Central Park 4/18/2016
After: American Robin, Central Park 4/18/2016
Before: American Robin, Central Park 4/18/2016
Before: American Robin, Central Park 4/18/2016

Posted on the After Before Friday Forum week 83 on April 22, 2016.

April 10 Flowers

Sherry Felix14 Comments

Photographed in Central Park, April 10, 2016 using a Nikon D750 with a Sigma 120-600mm 5-6.3 DG lens because I forgot my macro lens.

Daffodil (Narcissus), Central Park 4/10/2016
Forsythia suspensa, Central Park 4/10/2016
Fritillaria, Central Park 4/10/2016
Tulip, Central Park 4/10/2016
Prunus sp. Central Park 4/10/2016
Bloodroot, Central Park 4/10/2016
Peach (Prunus persica), Central Park 4/10/2016

Swamp Sparrow

Sherry Felix9 Comments

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I photographed this little Swamp Sparrow in Central Park on April 10, 2014 at the Azalea pond in the Ramble. I made up a story: He sees himself, looks several times then, not sure if it is another bird or himself, runs off.