Brooklyn Bridge, Homage to Edward Steichen

Homage to Edward Steichen

There are so many ways to depict this bridge - my favorites being the older platinum and gum prints from Edward Steichen. Matter of fact he was the impetus for me starting to photograph the bridge -  I lived under that bridge for many years in the mid eighties.

This particular image started as a 4x5 pinhole and today I processed it on my iPhone5.....so many uses for iPhone processing and they keep getting better......

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge, 4x5 Pinhole

'I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge'..........Ken Burns

Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge

It was one of those perfect image days in NY.....I was driving to meet an old friend for lunch in Bushwick when I noticed the fog that encapsulated the entire city....It was then I knew what the hours after lunch would be - making images near the Brooklyn Bridge...How could I resist the light....

This image is an iPhone4 processed on my Mac Pro. The original image was processed and blended using Macphun Photo Studio and Nik Snapseed on the iPad before being Photosync'ed to the Mac Pro...On the Mac Pro I used Color efx4 to find a look that I liked and then blended this back into the image from the iPad....

High Bridge Kentucky

Spent the past two days in Lexington, Kentucky with some friends, the Fielders, Tom, Elizabeth, Graham and Vaughn. Did a bit of sightseeing and also made a few images but mostly we tooled around looking at this amazing part of the country.

Today we went out looking for images and ended up at the High Bridge of Kentucky. This is a railroad bridge built in 1876. The bridge is 275 feet high and 1,125 feet long. The High Bridge is highest railroad bridge and was designed by John Roebling best know for the Brooklyn Bridge.

Image captured with a Canon 5DMKII and a 21MM Zeiss Lens

Last Week

Bridge - Pittsburgh

The past 4 days have been a blur - finished up work in Yakima on Friday - flew to Pittsburgh on Saturday for a Sunday Wedding and then back to New York this morning.....

JM - Washington, PA

Along the way I captured several IPhone images and am posting them all today.

Good Morning Pittsburgh

Home for a week then off to the west coast...somewhere along the line I thought I had retired...

The image in the header is a re-worked Iceland Waterfall...

Urban Waterfall

DUMBO

Was out shooting all day yesterday in Brooklyn with a young band - Kaiser-Cartell. The session was near Red Hook, Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and The Brooklyn Bridge. We had lunch at what is arguably the best pizza in New York, (which I assume means the world to most New Yorkers), at Grimaldi's which is located on Old Fulton and Front street under the Brooklyn Bridge. I would highly recommend this pizza if you are in the neighborhood. Here is an image I made several years back showing the area we were working in, including Grimaldi's Pizza (formerly called Patsy's).

I would highly recommend a visit to this area of Brooklyn if you ever find yourself in New York. This New York neighborhood is located under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge. In times gone by this was a manufacturing district with warehouses and factories that made paper boxes and machinery. In the 70's it became residential when artists and younger individuals moved into the mostly abandoned and inexpensive loft apartments, using them for living-working artist spaces. There is a NY legend that the term DUMBO was coined by these new residents to make the area sound unattractive to developers. This worked until the turn of the century as now DUMBO has become gentrified.

The area was designated the 90th historic district in 2007 and has become a premier arts district with many studios, galleries and various other arts institutions located there.

The image below shows a view of Manhattan captured at the foot of Old Fulton Street under the bridge  - an area no longer accessible to the public since 9-11.

The Brooklyn Bridge

I had the pleasure of living under The Brooklyn Bridge for almost 6 years during the 1990's. While we could see the financial district from the east side of the Hudson River, it always felt like we were looking from past history at the new world - Manhattan. This area was called DUMBO, Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, a name coined, some will say, too make it sound unattractive to developers. In years past it was mostly a manufacturing district, which, due to the changing economic situation turned into low cost loft apartments with a great deal of space, used primarily by arts organizations and artists.

This all started in the 1970's and lasted until the late 90's when developers finally started buying and renovating the area into expensive apartments with the appropriate consumer services that turned this into a more residential family area. Being only one stop from Manhattan also helped to facilitate the change in DUMBO.

This photograph is from the base of Old Fulton Street looking toward the financial district.

PS: As a side note DUMBO has fabulous pizza on Old Fulton Street - used to be Patsy's and now called Grimaldi - amazing thin crusted pizza with very fresh mozzarella cheese.