Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.
All the pixels, no congestion charges, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131
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@mattblaze Wow! What a great picture!
@mattblaze Are you old enough to remember the bridge's star turn semi-collapsed on the front page of Not The New York Times in 1978? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_The_New_York_Times
This was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and the Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm SLR lens was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.
@mattblaze That is one serious camera, Matt.
Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.
Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
This is part of my "slightly better photos of local attractions than you'd typically find hanging in your hotel room" series.
@mattblaze Is this series available for purchase, should a hotelier want to “up their game,” as the kids say?
@mattblaze Interesting point… just checked the license, and… well, thanks! CC nd/nc (i.e. “don’t butcher it, don’t profit from it”) means that I could indeed print it for myself and hang it up in that apartment of mine that feels like a hotel room - to make it feel more like a hotel room 😅
On a more serious note though… coming by highres photography suitable for framing is surprisingly hard, and we’re not even talking about “well shot”. So yeah, uhm. Thanks for sharing!
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