31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024.
Excessive pixels, each famous for 15 minutes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110
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Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.
This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making photography be something of an exercise in surveying.
Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.
The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol’s “Factory” studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.
@mattblaze@federate.social I was wondering if you’d done a super-long exposure to remove the crowds that usually appear here. But being there just after sunrise obviously does the same thing. Great picture!
@mattblaze@federate.social Do you know anything about the fourth building from the left, the modern, 1960’s? facade?
@wendinoakland@beige.party I believe it’s actually an older building that had a renovation in the 60’s or 70’s, giving it the modern-looking facade.
@mattblaze@federate.social Interesting. My old stomping grounds, but I always see something new, something that didn’t register before.
@mattblaze@federate.social
Brains are funny. Mine always tries to add lens distortion to your perfectly straight images.
It’s as if it doesn’t believe that it is corrected.@mattblaze@federate.social Love the black and white.
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social Thought you should see ;-)
@Cherteapet@c.im @mattblaze@federate.social Thanks! Damn, that’s a nice shot. Those lines are perfect!
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social I’m glad you liked it, too. You’re the professional ;-)
I love me some Union Square!
@mattblaze@federate.social Hah! I get that reference! Great picture!
