明珠蒙尘

Entrance to Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd - 7th Century Art

纽约真是个永远充满了新奇的地方。昨天中午我去午餐，在靠近五十一街近五大道的地方，有一个不太显眼的门。一进去，居然是个大厅，里面有些现代艺术品，更有甚者，里面还有一展览厅，里面是希腊三到七世纪的文物！它没有大博物錧的规模，但正好让我在有限的时间内，细细品味其中的珍品。（不过摄影是不允许的。） 原来这是传播希腊文化的地方, 叫Onassis Cultural Center。

我在这街上不知走过多少遍了，却对这地方一无所知。我再次明白了我对纽约的迷恋。也懂得为什么我每次从国外旅行回来，远远看见纽约的风景线，甚至有时在飞机电影里看到纽约，都会产生难言的激动。

在Onassis 楼的旁边是一家汉堡店，叫Prime Burger，我有时通过Seamless网点过它。里面有些座位的摆设很有意思，象大学教室的椅子一般，一个把扶手连在一起的活动面板，客人就在上面用餐。

New York is Building...Again

(West Side, New York, NY)

While it's heart-warming to see things like this, sadly, new projects like this are rarities in a city that once boasted the world's highest skyscrapers and  claimed the symbol of American Dream.

Transformation Empowered by the Alpha Channel

Original Image of Megan Fox

Image Source: Wallpaper Stock

Improved Image

The image was chosen randomly  through a Google search for the sole purpose of playing with Photoshop.  

进入微观世界

（Nikon 300s/30mm at f1.8, 0.01s, ISO800, manual focus, Zykkor, Macro Extension Tube）

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

东村地铁

(R Subway Station, East Village, New York, NY)

Other photos of the day can be found here. 

来自世界遥远角落的动物

非洲与南极:两个我这辈子不知是否有机会去的地方

可收藏的相机

Minox DCC 5.1 Digital Camera (Gold Edition)

This camera contains 24K gold plate.  Looks like a keeper!

孤独的但丁

Dante Park, New York, NY

A Forked Road

Choices of Life (photo credit: Harold Davis)

Everyday life presents us with opportunities.  Everyday life also takes opportunities away from us.  I was  reminded of this simple wisdom once again today, as I sat in my study on this beautiful later winter day, listening to the mechanical ticking sound of two clocks near me, augmented in clarity and amplitude by  tranquility surrounding me.  

Yesterday's news was a much-needed dose of excitement to a local community.  It is a miracle. (incomplete)

Light Illuminates, Shadow Defines.

这是摄影师Cliff Maunter的几幅婚礼作品。他对光的应用有很独特的地方。

进入微观世界

Anteior Median and Anterior Lateral Eyes of an Adult Female Phidippus putnam Jumping Spider

by Thomas Shahan

Very wonderful, inspiring photographs by this photographer!  His photo gear is laughably simple if not shabby, but, his works, admirably impressive.  His fascination with the little bug world, as seen in his YouTube clip, and his enormous patience and success are equally awe-provoking.  

An Unusual Cobmination

A waiting stretch limo parked next to a stretch of piled trash bags (50th St. near Gershwin Theater)

雨夜蹓狗人

(Hell's Kitchen, New York)

More of tonight's photos are here.

SMASH神马？

“水帘洞”公园

This little park is located close to 7th Avenue (between 6th and 7th Ave.). The park, formed on a narrow piece of lot between surrounding high rises, has a waterfall wall partitioning the east and west side and a glass tube passage way connecting 47th and 48th streets.

The Night After New Year's Eve (Jan. 2, 2012)

Time Square, New York

有点“豪华去后行人绝”的感觉。

Diagonal Dynamics  

A friendly store manager in this Gap chain shared her story of spending 3 months in China, setting up Gap stores in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. 

从狗的观点来看世界。。。

 在这是平时里永远也不会见到的抽屉底版虽然微不足道，却足以换位思考会让我们发现意想不到的东西。

Caged in Poverty (Hong Kong)

This photograph is from the photo series on CNN by Brian Cassey, an Australia-based British photographer, reporting a rare glimpse into the hard life of the poor in Hong Kong.

Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting

A Cancer Survivor's life in all its moods and tones




"Long before Flickr, fine-art photographer Jeff Harris began taking one self-portrait a day and posting it on his website.  Thirteen years later, the project captures the cancer survivor's life in all its moods and tones." (TIME January 16, 2012)

Source: http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1349803055001_0,00.html
Jeff Harris website: http://www.jeffharris.org

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天上一轮已捧出，名间万姓少人看

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