As I roamed Florence’s rain-soaked streets with my cameras early one morning, I chanced upon an imposing centuries-old building with a rocky facade nestled in the heart of the city.
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Miami Beach’s Art Deco Answer to the Great Depression
Miami Beach boasts the world’s greatest concentration of art deco buildings, which reflect a distinct era in American history—along with the can-do attitude that has defined the nation. From the Great Depression years through the 1940s, architects in the Miami area designed dominantly within the umbrella of styles now known as art deco, and some nine hundred structures in this genre remain. They rose amid economic hard times and evoked technological modernity, resilience, and optimism.
Read MoreArt Deco Redo in Roanoke
The buildings beckoned me to return. On a recent trip to Roanoke, I drove around the city nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia and several Art Deco structures caught my eye.
Read MoreThe Curves, Dips and Peak of VIA 57 West
When words such as “hyperbolic paraboloid” and “tetrahedron” are used to describe the shape of a building, a photographer on the lookout for unusual modern architecture knows he’s in for a treat.
Read MoreMidtown Views are Brooklyn Bridge’s Other Allure
Don’t let the Brooklyn Bridge or her many admirers fool you. There’s more to the 133-year-old structure than just her Gothic-style towers and web of steel cables.
Read MoreOheka Castle: An Appetizer
Orson Welles filmed Citizen Kane there; F. Scott Fitzgerald drew on it when he conceived Gatsby’s estate.
Read MoreNew York’s Emerging Skylines
When talking of the New York skyline, we really should pluralize it because there is more than one.
Brooklyn Bridge Walk Puts the Spiritual in Secularism
What is a secularist to do when he needs a certain spiritual lift? Some climb to mountain tops; I walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Read MoreLooking Beyond the High Line
The High Line is truly an urban “park.” Actually, it is a former elevated train trestle that was reconfigured into a walkway lined with various trees, lush shrubs, colorful perennials and stretches of grass, spanning roughly 22 city blocks on Manhattan’s West Side.
Read MoreTriangular Flatiron Building Has More Than Two Sides
Manhattan’s triangular Flatiron Building, located where Fifth Avenue and Broadway converge, is all about angles and optical illusions. But I’ve come across another “side” to this iconic 22-story skyscraper.
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SKYLINE E-READER: My favorite shot of this year is an image of a woman lying on a bench, e-reader in hand, with the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan skyline as a backdrop. What I particularly like about this images is the way her golden tan injects color into a scene dominated by a blues, grays and browns.
My Top 11 Photos of 2014
It’s official: my favorite subjects to photograph are in Manhattan. This was an easy conclusion to reach, given that the city’s views monopolize my top 11 photos of 2014, as chosen by yours truly (why stop at 10?).
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The Woolworth Building as seen from Broadway looking north. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Capturing the 'Cathedral of Commerce'
The Woolworth Building in lower Manhattan has a perfect nickname: The Cathedral of Commerce.
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