New York - Posters for Living Room Decoration _ Big Wall Posters for Bedroom

1. New York - Posters for Living Room Decoration | Big Wall Posters for Bedroom New York was one of the first cities I ever shot professionally, and I have returned several times throughout the year to fill out my portfolio of this magnificent city! Downtown New York City Skyline with Freedom Tower I shot the New York Skyline from North, South, East and West! It looks completely different from each angle. This is my 3rd entry into the Skyline series. It was shot at around 1 am from New Jersey across the Hudson river, which separates Jersey from Manhattan. This is from the north and is a very uncommon angle. So much so that many people familiar with New York City don't immediately recognize it. But that is indeed the new Freedom Tower, or One World Trade Center front and center, replacing the former Twin Towers. I used a cool blue to emphasize the cold majesty of the steel and glass skyline of New York. This is downtown New York City and Wall St. It's a frantic and bustling hub of finance in the daytime, and a near ghost-town at night, when all the stockbrokers leave work.

2. Times Square in Motion After years of photography, I finally got my chance to visit New York City. The first location I wanted to shoot was the overshot and cliché image of Times Square. Except I didn't want to contribute to the endless stream of identical tourist shots of Times Square that gets taken thousands of times a day 365 days a year on cell phones. I wanted to make something unique. Therein lay my challenge. How do I take one of the most iconic scenes in modern history and create something unique? I decided to tackle it head on. I googled for days to see what others had done, to try and get some inspiration. After sifting through hundreds of photos on different photo-sharing sites, I concluded cynically that there was no originality and there was no possible way to shoot this that hadn't been done before. But I went anyway. As I rode the underground towards Times Square, armed with my camera gear, I recalled a physics paper I read many years ago. It covered “time”. It theorized that the three dimensions (length, width and depth) made up the universe, but that “time” as a seemingly 4th dimension, made every view of the world completely unique, as it is never the same as the second by second, as it was only a few minutes ago. I decided to experiment with this concept of time to help me create a unique take on this world-famous landmark. But as it turned out, it was an act of pure chance that created this end result, independent from my original plan. After half an hour of fruitless attempts at originality, I decided to get bold, and place my tripod on in the middle of the street where the cars flew by, but I'd plan it in between the red lights to give myself the time and space I needed. So I ran into the road right in front of a very curious looking taxi driver with a huge mustache, staring at me wondering what the heck I was up to.

3. I set up the shot and started the 5 second timer. I did this as the light was low but also to capture the blur of motion in front of me, contrasting with the static buildings behind it. No such luck. As the 4 second mark arrived, the light turned and an almighty horn rattled my skull. I jumped and knocked the tripod over. Everything went into slow-motion, and I caught the camera right before it hit the ground. At the same time, my finger accidentally turned the camera off. I rushed back to the sidewalk safely and looked at the screen in shock. 4 and a half seconds had caught Times Square at night, and half a second had captured the falling camera sweeping in a perfect arc, crashing to the ground. I had somehow “stumbled” upon a completely unique picture of Times Square. What are the odds of that? Ghosts in Central Park I was in New York City for a single day, shooting a commercial for a clinic in the Upper East Side, and I got off around 11pm and went shooting until 3am.

4. This was shot after a very, very long walk in the sweltering heat in August. I shot this from the Manhattan Bridge, shooting south with my lens sticking through a hole in the fence! You can see the East River here, separating Manhattan from Brooklyn, as well as the iconic Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan and Wall St in the background. I removed all colors except for red here. I left all of the natural red in the picture, not just from the red stream of brake-lights, but also the faint glow of red in the clouds and the red dots on the tips of buildings.