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Hi Nas,
Judging by these, Tim's and Norm's pix, you all had a spiffing time.
As you've posted in this forum I'll comment on the pix as pix, if that's ok. Though one comparative observation: many of Tim's and Norm's pix are of microcosoms; whereas yours tend to be broad panoramas - want to call them macrocosoms but "macro" in photographs means "small" for some bizarre reason.
Much of this is personal reaction / interpretation / appreciation:
From the top: 01) Magnolia Trees
I like this for several reasons. Firstly, it is simply aesthetically pleasing (because trees and sunshine tend to be). Secondly, I love the way in which the magnolia (one of my fav trees) seems to be blotting out the urban sprawl. Reminds me of the film "Logan's Run" whereby Washington DC is subsumed by nature. It also forms a fretwork for which to view the skyscrapers.
02) Empire State panorama? (N0t much looks down on so much).
My Dad went up the Empire State Building in 1965 - I have a pic of him there somewhere in my pic piles. So I have an emotional attachment here. I am sure your pic is far from unique - may even be "typical" but as you cannot move the ESB that s not your fault! It is executed superbly and the river (Hudson?) is shown slicing through the urban sprawl - which, combined with the marching magnolias shows there is hope for the planet. Of course, in reality, the city has hemmed-in the river - but one can dream.
(Perhaps I ought to say, I have nowt against NYC in particular - I am urbanphobic. I live fifty-five miles from London but keep as well-away as possible.) I lived in a city of 30,000 people once and, although I still go thee it was far, far, far too large for me.
03) Empire State Building from Ground
This is another fab pic. The balance of canopy and stars / stripes on one side with the rocket of the ESB in the middle is excellent. The tree (Cherry?) adds the finishing touch.
04) What a great pic! You have used the language of the built environment to dominate our view. There is no left; no right; no bottom; no top: just an unending brick-concrete-glass-metal for ever and ever: a prayer to human built brutalism. I imagine people climbing the fire escapes upward to escape the streets, to only finish when hey ran out of energy. I love this metaphor you have painted.
05) I do not know this - Time Square, maybe?
I see the British invasion continues with "The Lion King" - written by my near-neighbour Lord Lloyd-Webber... my nearer neighbour did some work on his land and was, he tells me, instructed not to talk to Lloyd-Bank unless spoken to first. So I hope America finds him more approachable.
For me, this is one of my two last fav pic simply because it is more "touristy" - but, as a tourist pic, it is very good. Only because some of your other pix are s good does this appear a tad less satisfactory.
06) Theatre entrance
This is my other least fav. I might suggest you rotate it to horizontal too.
07) A blue-lumarized city-scape
Now we're in my area of taking pix and adapting them. I like this. It is, perhaps, a tad old hat (1960s nuke-a-city style) but it does work for me - makes me think how vulnerable we really are in our sophisticated existence.
Fab set, Nas - thank you!
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