Week 9: Theater District, Times Square Round Two

Week 9: Theatre District and Times Square

No promises here on out! I did make a few attempts at posting those 'cool pictures' I wrote about earlier from Union Square, but for some reason they weren't working. Anyways, I did one quick fell swoop of this area of town since it's not really my cup of tea. Here's one of two posts. The lighting streaming from the Hudson is just gorgeous.

The comeback!

Not going to lie, this project was really great up to a point, and then it became really tedious. I kind of burnt out the last few weeks and needed to regroup. Well, I'm regrouped, and am about ready to finish the job! More to come, including some fun if not super amazing photos in Union Square.

More from Week 8: TriBeCa and SoHo

So it's been almost two weeks without any new material - I'll have a few chances this week though so hopefully we'll see some fun new content. I realized I hadn't shown any of my shots from week 8 though. Although we only got a few good shots, it was a great time and an amazing area of town.

Last chance to check out the website

If you have a minute to waste and want to spend it at my website before it falls off the internets on Thursday, have a look: markmillerphotography.net

Enjoy!

Week 8: TriBeCa and SoHo

Last week I made it down to Tribeca for a few hours with my friend Marshall Hogan. Our timing could have been worse, but not much worse, as we barely missed the sun, and subsequently shot in the gray lifeless shadows for a couple hours until the night lights livened things out. Nevertheless, it was a good time and we got a few good shots.

Here are some of Marshall's best. You should check out more of his work at http://goingconcern.tumblr.com/ and on flickr. He recently went to Paris and Switzerland and has some amazing shots!

Week 7: People from Hell's Kitchen and Clinton

I was a little disappointed by my photos of Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea, so I decided to give it another go about two Saturdays ago. I had a real breakthrough; well, at least I think I did. I've always been very shy about taking photos of people and, if you've noticed, people haven't exactly been featured prominently in my photos. For only the second time in my life (and third and fourth and fifth), I actually stopped and talked to a few people, asked if I could take their photo. I know some of these photos are mediocre, but it's a work in progress.

This is Gabriel (as you may have concluded). He grew up in Puerto Rico in Santurce, but has lived in Hell's Kitchen for 50 years. I can't imagine the changes he's been. He had a few words about gentrification, and he was pretty blunt about the change in demographics. He was a real nice guy though - having lived in PR for two years on a mission for my church, he was the easiest of all to talk to.

This guy was on break - from Ecuador. His friends laughed at him while I took a couple shots. He was a good guy though.

Doo-Wop Bob - He was my first victim. Nice guy, I wish I would have talked to him more, but I was nervous and kept going after snapping a couple.

I didn't talk to any of these other folks. Albert Einstein above seems pretty content.

I've got a lot of great content to add in the next few posts - a trip to SoHo with a guest photographer and another contribution coming from Portland, ME. Stay tuned.