Gantry Plaza State Park, Oct 2011 - 06

nobody@flickr.com (Ed Yourdon) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:36:35 -0700

Ed Yourdon posted a photo:

Note: I chose this photo, among the ten that I uploaded to Flickr on the morning of Oct 16, 2011, as my "photo of the day." It's simple and almost like a painting; but I love the dark-blue color of the water, and also the reflections of buildings upon the water. It certainly does make the East River look a lot more attractive than it normally does!

Note: A large percentage of my "landscape" photos (including the ones in this set, along with several related images which I've gradually deleted from Flickr) are now copyright-protected, and are not available for downloads and free use. You can view them here in Flickr, but if you would like prints, enlargements, framed copies, and other variations, please visit my SmugMug "Gantry Park" gallery by clicking here.

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The New York City Photography Meetup group sponsored a sunset get-together several weeks ago at Gantry Plaza State Park, on the east side of New York's East River, so that interested photographers could compare notes as they photographed the mid-town Manhattan skyline from a vantage point right across from the United Nations building.

Unfortunately, it rained on the original date for the get-together; and it rained on the next two or three successive dates that had been planned. Finally, on Oct 6, 2011, the weather cooperated: it was a beautiful afternoon, and there was not a cloud in the sky as the sun sank down in the western sky. As a result, sunset was not as spectacular and dramatic as it might have been ... but it was still pretty nice.

The photos shown in this Flickr set are all 7-shot HDR compositions, with my Nikon D5100 camera on a reasonably steady tripod. Most of the other photographers were also using tripods, but I don't know if anyone else was shooting multiple images for HDR compositions. Indeed, I haven't figured out where all of the other photographers have uploaded their results, but I'm sure an enterprising Googler will be able to track them down...

Meanwhile, here are the 20 photos that I thought were worth sharing...

Uploads from Ed Yourdon, tagged gantryplazastatepark

Gantry Plaza State Park, Oct 2011 - 06