NEW YORK PHOTO BLOG

As I walked back from the park, I noticed these stone stairs that if you cropped it right looked like they lead to nowhere.  The blue background is actually a scratched door.  I had a lot of trouble taking this shot because my shadow kept creeping into it.  So I was there for a while and of course a window opened and an old woman asked, politely at least, what I was doing.  I told her that the stairs were interesting and that I wasn’t working for anyone.  Just for myself.  (I know that’s what everyone is worried about.  That there’s some building violation or something.)  Anyway, I could feel her eyes on me - and when I did look up a small child had also come to the window to watch.  I was starting to think that they’d make a better shot than this dumb stairway to nowhere; but I had already used up my shooting bravery, and decided to leave well enough alone.  Eventually I got the angle where you can’t tell it’s a door, and my shadow stayed out of the shot.  I looked up at them and nodded.  I don’t know what the nod meant - I guess that I had finished.  And strolled back to the apartment determined to start printing some orders that are in the bin.  But instead I ended up futzing with these pictures and some other web gadgets.

I’d better get back to printing tomorrow because I’m getting pretty tardy with orders lately, and some of these are from repeat customers.

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