stuny Posted August 28, 2007 Share #1 Posted August 28, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Walking from Barbara's office to mine early yesterday morning I was stopped by a traffic light at the corner of 6th Avenue and 42nd Street. I looked across to Bryant Park (fine now, but a 24-hour-a-day drug store in the 1980s) and saw the Empire State Building and the “castle in the sky” (my name for it in a post about two months ago). Plenty more NYC photos on the 9 pages (40 photos per page for the first 8, only 12 so far on the 9th) of New York photo galleries on our site. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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andybarton Posted August 28, 2007 Share #2 Posted August 28, 2007 The Empire State Building looks much shorter in this shot than I imagined, Stuart. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share #3 Posted August 28, 2007 Andy - We've had sigificant rain, of late, causing it to shrink. With a few more days of sunshine it will grow back to its normal height. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted August 28, 2007 Share #4 Posted August 28, 2007 My reaction was the same as Andy's except that I also was impressed with the apparent height of the "castle." You must have taken this with a long lens from a bit of a distance. Nicely done, at any rate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share #5 Posted August 28, 2007 Brent - Thank you. I was using the Panasonic equivalent to the C-Lux-2 (I always have that in my briefcase to, from and at work), at full tele zoom, which is the 35mm equivalent to about 100mm, or 2X normal. The Empire State Building is eight blocks south (the north-south blocks are each about 1/20 of a mile) and one block west (the midtown east-west blocks are 3 to 4 times as long as the north-south blocks) of where I shot the photo. The castle in the sky is one block south and one half block east of where I was standing. The perspecitve and relative distances caused the impression of shrinkage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted August 28, 2007 Share #6 Posted August 28, 2007 Looks pretty short to me too. How tall are you? :D:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LichMD Posted August 28, 2007 Share #7 Posted August 28, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) My friend it never ceases to amaze me how our city constantly gussies herself up for you. Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share #8 Posted August 28, 2007 Pete - In this dimension I'm not much over a meter tall, but in one of the parallel dimentions I'm able to stand on my toes and dust the antenna on the top of the Empire State Building. Jeff - Thank you, and we do love this city. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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