Park View

[Tuna]

Central Park, NYC



Leica MP, Voigtlander 35/1.7 Ultron, T-Max100

[WickedExposure]

Very good shot! I love the buildings.

[Mr Yuck]

whoa, I dont know if it's because I was tired or what, but when i first looked at it, I thought it was a double exposure or a PS, it looks like the city is floating, the bright white water looked like sky, and the bottom part looked like land, and a floating city. I think that's just when I look at the buildings that I see it like that though.

Striking picture, well done. Really makes me look at it more.

[Overbeyond]

Hello Tuna
This has the Tuna trademark of excellence written all over it.
Two worlds: the peace of the park and the mayhem of the overlooking buildings, and what threatning and cold buildings they are. The blackness in parts of the buildings give them a nasty character. The white sky and the white water form a great relationship and the foreground shapes and patterns work so well. I love this photograph and the others with a similar eerie efffect (are we safe anywhere?) that you have posted in the past.
Tom

[gahspidy]

You have captured what Central Park is all about. . .an Oasis amidst a concrete jungle. Very nice.
The only thing I can be critical of is the somewhat flat lighting of the overcast day is making it hard to get the feel of the depth from the foregroud to the distance, but as is usually the case I'm certain this would be remedied somewhat in the print.

[Overbeyond]

You have captured what Central Park is all about. . .an Oasis amidst a concrete jungle. Very nice.
The only thing I can be critical of is the somewhat flat lighting of the overcast day is making it hard to get the feel of the depth from the foregroud to the distance, but as is usually the case I'm certain this would be remedied somewhat in the print.

Hello Gary
Interesting to hear your comments on the light.
Funnily enough I thought it was the rather dull lighting that gives this shot a lot of the atmosphere I see in it, especially the pretty miserable tone to the buildings: a sort of "Eastern Bloc Country Feel" if you get my drift.
Tom

[OldSchool]

Hi Tuna,

Central Park is very scenic with the trees, lakes, statues, rolling (and rocky) hills, and the juxtaposition of the surrounding old-ish buildings. However, when I was there last year, I have found it very difficult to capture what I saw and express it in an image. I think you did an outstanding job here. Very nice...

Tim