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NYC – Fort Tryon Park: The Cloisters – Lion Passant
Image by wallyg
Lion Passant, or Lion from a Frieze
From the chapter house of the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, Castile-León, Burgos, after 1200
Fresco, mounted on canvas; 7 x 11 ft. (226.1 x 335.3 cm)
The Cloisters Collection, 1931 (31.38.1a)
This wall painting and its companion, which depicts a dragon, are closely related to a cycle of frescoes at Sigena (Huesca), thought to be by an English painter from Winchester. Notwithstanding attempts to find symbolic significance in these beasts, contemporary texts state that "images of animal, birds, serpents and other things are for adornment and beauty only."
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The Cloisters, a branch of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages, is located in Fort Tryon Park near the northern tip of Manhattan island on a hill overlooking the Hudson River. The Cloisters collection contains approximately five thousand European medieval works of art, with a particular emphasis on pieces dating from the twelfth through the fifteen centuries.
Maria Sharapova and her Canon Powershot Diamond Collection
Image by ChrisGampat
Original Story here: www.gearlog.com/2008/08/maria_sharapova_unveils_her_ca.php
My story: As my last story for my internship at PC Magazine, I went to South St Seaport to shoot Maria Sharapova’s official unveiling of her Canon Powershot Diamond lineup that people could win through a contest on Canon’s website. The other photographers next to me were from NY Daily News, Newsday, AP, Getty, NY Post and I believe the NYTimes. And they were all using Canons so it felt odd for me to be the only guy there using Olympus on the front lines right in front of her.
What made me really happy though was the fact that the Post photographer (who reeked of alcohol) kept saying that I wasn’t allowed to stand next to him because he didn’t have enough room to take his shot. The Canon reps fixed that and let me stay there because I had previous reservations.
I took my flash off because my mentor (Pulitzer Winner John Williams at Newsday) taught me to shoot that way. But I synched my timing to shoot with the other photographers.
To make a long story short–the only photos of the event that ended up being published were mine and AP’s. The Post and Daily News used AP’s. But mine…were all over the net.
It made me quite happy and made me realize that Olympus can hold it’s own against the bigger guys in terms of getting the right shot. That being said though, I still plan to move back to Canon (I used to use them) because they do better in low light and give me the features I need.
Also seen here on my article, "8 Great Tips to Get More Out of Your Camera Batteries"
www.photographybay.com/2009/07/07/8-great-tips-to-get-mor…
And here:
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/pretty-players-…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Sharapova_and_her_Canon_…
www.deepglamour.net/deep_glamour/2009/11/virtuosity-and-b…
thephoblographer.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/hey-there-im-ch…
thephoblographer.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/my-favorites-im…
www.moneycompare.com.au/blog/the-wealthiest-kids-in-the-w…
Imelda Cave (Hundred Islands)
Image by ShutterbugMari
A cathedral-shaped nature cave, it has two chambers, with the outer chamber accessible via a submerged opening from one side of the island and from an open ceiling which can also be reached by a 30-m trail from the beach area. One of the favorite things to do here is to dive from the tip of the wooden stairs and into the water. The cave which can be reached by swimming, kayaking or rafting is a corner of serene beauty on which one can just lay back and enjoy the quiet atmosphere.
