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peterkopher — Empire State Building - N.Y.C.
Published: 2006-05-07 19:19:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 2164; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 7
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Shot of the Empire State Building, from Bryant Park, taken and hour ago - after my lunch time nap on the the lawn inside the park.Photo rotated slightly, cropped, autoadjusted for levels and saturated moderately in Photoshop.
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It seemed like spring was a LONG way away just recently!
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Indeed! That's why I felt the need to post something warmer-looking!
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hi my dear
your work has been featured here [link]
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I saw that when I read your journal! Thank you so much sweetie
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i love this picture, i love the empire state building (tho it is overrated) and i love NYC
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Thanks for the kind comments!
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Nice....usually you don't see pictures of the city involving much green... I really like this perspective.
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Thank you! It's an incredible building - even more so since 9/11 - and I just happened to look up while sitting in Bryant Park, and had my camera with me...The shot almost composed itself, serendipitously!
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naturally even 
lol....I'm such a dork
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ROFL! But you're a cute dork
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that's how I manage to pull it off.....lol
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Pull it off??? That sounds a little too severe to me. How 'bout I just apologize, instead?
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lol......I forgot what we were even talking about
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Love this! You really picked up the distance and perspective up through the buildings. Shadings, contrast and colors are rich and full too! It's definately a keeper!
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Thanks! After my half hour nap on the lawn of Bryant Park I sat on chair in the shade nearby and lit a cigarette. When I finally looked up I saw the Empire State Building, just as I photographed it - I didn't even have to stand up! The day before I had commented on a pic by another dA artist on a shot of the same building. So, I felt a real sense of serendipity to look up and see this photo, already composed for me...All I did was turn on my tiny little Canon PowerShot (which I love, as it's small size and prodigious out put for a 3.2 meg camera tends to mean that I have it with me more often than not) and take this serendipitously-already composed image!
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I think serendipity is an understatement!
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Yeah, it was fate, I guess...sort of a zen-like thing that led me there, as I rarely venture the mere 2 blocks from the studio to the park.
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I'm jealous. I wish I lived in NYC. I'm stuck in po-dunk Oklahoma and there's nothing fun to take pictures of here.
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Luckily, I don't live IN NYC - I live in the suburbs, out on Long Island. You must have parks, lakes, hiking trails or something along those lines near you, no? What about old buildings, farms museums - these are some good places to find some interesting photo ops.
Thank you so much for the 
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In all honesty I haven't really looked. I don't know my way around all that well. I'm here for school so I haven't really bothered to find my way. I need to get out and look around.
Your pictures are awesome, of course I'd watch you.
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If you get the chance you really should try to find whatever photogenic sites might be nearby. Are you from the midwest/Oklahoma area?
Thanks for the kind words 
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Yeah, I'm in Stillwater. Maybe I'll have time to go and look around sometime.
It's no problem. Nothin you need to thank me for.
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