July, 2014
Being a flâneuse in Manhattan has its special rewards if you are willing to let your gaze wander all over. I used to have a habit of always looking up. I wondered at the unaltered architectural details from the 19th Century, at views of “negative space” and composition as in paintings. BUT, then I discovered also looking down. Here, the grit and the edge of the city comes pulsing out in unexpected humor and beauty. Consider stains, roots and drains – captured only by looking down.
A day after a rain gives your eye a treasure of puddles and stains.
La flâneuse
Easter bunny comes to Manhattan
Horrible flying insect
Sidewalk creatures flirting
Bird terror
Sidewalk Swimmer
N.Y.C sewers are made in India!
Manhattan sewer cap made in India
Looking down at tree trunks and roots –
Piglets
Bare feet
… and tree lovers nearby.
Tree lovers I
Tree lovers II
Love these photos. You have a good eye. Just be careful when looking down walking that you don’t bump you head on an errant branch or utility pole. Believe me I’ve done that.
I have bumped! Walked right into a iron fence tracking down some exquisite little stain.
A marvelous eye for what images can be conjured from natural (and unnatural) phenomena.
Really enjoyed the photos.
Thank you for visiting, Robert.
Marvelous photographic eye to capture these images of natural (and unnatural) objects.
To appreciate what you have accomplished, we would all need to really slow down and observe. I look down to avoid stepping in detritus and tripping on cracked sidewalks!
Love what you have captured, beauty in the eyes of the beholder.
Of course we mustn’t txt while walking!