ok, i'm cheating.
i have my architecture blog, which is supposed to be exclusively about l.a architecture.
but i just took a walk around my neighborhood in nyc at 3a.m (with my old friend insomnia) and took some pictures of my neighborhood at 3 a.m.
they're not the greatest pictures, but they do represent my neighborhood at 3 a.m pretty well, and i'm putting them up so that if i'm feeling nostalgic i can remember my ye olde nyc neighborhood at 3 a.m (and it's a deep nostalgia, as i first wandered around this neighborhood in 1982… needless to say it was, uh, different then).
nyc is, of course, quite photogenic.
and the biggest problem with nyc from a photographers perspective is that almost every last inch of nyc has been photographed about a trillion times.
and the best and most iconic pictures of new york were probably taken 100 or so years ago.
to wit:
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/LargeImage.aspx?image=/lotfinderimages/d18846/d1884608x.jpg
i mean, any photographer who tries to take a picture of nyc better than edward steichen's flatiron building picture is almost certainly delusional.
in fact almost all photography from the last 120 years sort of sits squarely in edward steichen's shadow.
ok, flying back to l.a now.
thanks
moby
