Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robert - Didn't know this. It's a fascinating building. It was fun exploring it's niches and filigrees as the sun rose and the shadow of the building across the street crept down its facade. Dick >The Ansonia was immortalized by Saul Bellow in his novella Seize the Day. >The entire novel takes place in and around the Ansonia, and its presence is >like another character in the story. > > >> The Ansonia on Broadway at 74th was once a famous New York hotel >> catering primarily to the arts community. Enrico Caruso, Igor >> Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Florenz Ziegfeld, Theodore Dreiser, and >> Babe Ruth (an artist of a different stripe, [heh, heh, ;-)]) all >> called it home at one time or another. Today it is condos. >> >> It is typically described as "a 1904 Beaux Arts masterpiece," >> seemingly dropped into the upper West Side direct from Paris. It is >> a magnificent sight from the 20th floor of a hotel just across the >> street. >> >> At dawn (M3 40mm Nokton - f1.4 @ 1/60th) >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/1_34_0223_web >> >> >> Shortly after sunrise (M3 15mm Heliar f5.6 at 1/250th if I remember >correctly) >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/2_31A_0187_web >> >> This is the bottom half of the negative. The upper half is all sky. >> I took shot after shot trying to get people into interesting places >> in that splash of light at street level. New Yorkers on an early >> Sunday morning are very uncooperative. ;-) Probably should have >> brought some inflatable people along a la Graham and his ducks and >> cows. >> >> Enjoy! Comments welcome as always. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information