AROUND OCHARD ST, MANHATTAN

Well, it's been a while... I've been really busy with some other kind of business and didn't have much time lately to shoot anything... But I went scouting today for a gig coming this week. Press images of the band Matuto. We will be shooting indoors but I'll probably end up doing one or two images outside and I'd rather be ready.

SNOW IN NYC

After Sandy, snow now...
In Prospect Park and on Flatbush.

MANHATTAN IN THE AFTERMATH OF SANDY

There is a split in the city.
It seems that North of 31st has electricity, South has not.
Traffic is quite insane midtown, lots of cars, no traffic lights. Surprisingly people handle it with patience.
The first image shot around the Jarvis Center shows midtown lit up in the background.
Then going South on the West Side Highway into Wall Street one enters areas of total darkness.
Quite eery at times. I had to turn back in the Wall St area as it was 100% pitch black, true, I don't have a light on my bike but that's another story...

 

RED HOOK, BROOKLYN AFTER HURRICANE SANDY

If our neighborhood didn't seem to suffer too much [ see previous post ] it's a different story in Red Hook.
Being on the water front, a lot of basements are flooded, goods in stores are wasted, electricity is off...
New York will need a lot of time, money and efforts to get over this one...
Not exactly what was needed in what are already hard times...
Below some images, starting Van Brunt in Red Hook up to  Dumbo.

 

 

 

HURRICANE SANDY IN BROOKLYN PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS

Took a walk yesterday night and was happy to see there was not a lot of damages other than broken trees.
The only casualty was one below... RIP.

 

 

 

FUTURE BW PRINTS

A couple of BW prints out of the selection for that gallery.

FUTURE PRINTS

I have been improving some previous images as a gallery in Paris wants to represent some of my work.
They have picked a few color & B/W images.
Some of the colors here.

SHORT NIGHT WALK ON MANHATTAN BRIDGE

Again the weather is hot [ well, not so hot in fact ] and humid here in NYC.
The particles in the air catch the lights diffusing a blanket of gentle eeriness all over the city.

PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN

I couldn't resist taking a late walk yesterday night.
It has been raining in Brooklyn and the park was hot, humid, diffusing many scents.
Somehow it felt like being in Asia.

 

BACK IN NEW YORK

This time it's for real... back home... in New York.
The top one arriving by the LIRR, the bottom one early this morning along Canal St.

BACK HOME, WELL, KIND OF...

A last stop in France, in my home town, Tourcoing before heading back to Brooklyn.
No doubt that Tourcoing does not have the charm of Trouville but it's my hometown and as such I still have a lot of emotional ties to it. Difficult to describe but I like Tourcoing even if I must recognize that things are not changing for the best. It seems that a lot of shops are closing, that life is slowly moving to other cities around. The only positive sign is the rehabilitation of old industrial building into nice condos.

 

TROUVILLE / DEAUVILLE BY NIGHT

I have, as far as I can remember, always been in love with these moments of the day when the city lights blend in the natural light.
It's still magical for me. Even more so in the early mornings when everything is so silent.
Daylight is always coming to soon...

 

TROUVILLE / DEAUVILLE BY DAY

Here is a mix of images of Deauville & Trouville by day.
A quiet, at this time of the year, spot on the coast about 2 1/2 hours from Paris.
Beautiful beaches, skies, and delicious fish [ not shown here...].