A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog
Thanksgiving, a Parade
November 22, 2012
I did not see it this year. The crowds don't appeal much, and I was working from home. Still. There's something outrageously grandiose about Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
Below, one of Macy's 2013 Christmas windows, portraying the parade. Hard to tell of course, but they are about 6 foot tall and 20 long. See my previous post for a street view.
Happy it, you all.
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in a 34th Street window
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As Life Goes on in New York City
November 17, 2012
Three weeks ago, hurricane Sandy hit the city like a ton of bricks. A week later, it was a nasty nor'easter and the first snow fall of the year. Already weak in the crotch, pear trees gave up.
Strike one
Strike two
But life goes on and I launched on yet another night run around Lower Manhattan to measure progress and take the neighborhood's pulse.
North Cove Marina and brightly lit Jersey City across the Hudson River
World Financial Center Winter Garden
Ful...
Sandy's Aftermath: Chaos in the Rockaways
November 13, 2012
Exactly two weeks after long inhibited category 1 hurricane Sandy unleashed her post-tropical moods on the Eastern Seaboard, much remains to be done in New York towards a complete recovery.
So many still lack power and heat that the drama is wearing off and both media and public awareness are slowly drifting away from the crisis, their senses blunted by fifteen days of sensationalist news bombing.
So on Sunday when I escaped downtown Brooklyn for a quick getaway to D...
And Manhattan Falls Asleep
November 10, 2012
With power coming back to her Don Quichottesque giants in increments, Lower Manhattan goes to sleep on yet an another partially dark night, Monday November 5, 2012. Shot in HDR well after sunset from the Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Patches of light emerging in Lower Manhattan
Brooklyn (foremost) and Manhattan Bridges
Classic Brooklyn Bridge Park view of Manhattan
Heavy Clouds Lifted
November 7, 2012
Need I say more?
Times Square, Wednesday November 7, 2012, 6:30 AM
Interlude
November 6, 2012
No chaos, no damage, no devastation, no visible sign of trouble. A simple horizon-full of gantry cranes like our friend Frank likes to paint it.
NJ seen from across the New York Harbor
More Post-Sandy Coverage, While I'm at It
November 3, 2012
Not so much has changed*.
Lower Manhattan heads into another dark night, emergency crew lights everywhere
Our mayor has finally cancelled the NYC Marathon that was to be held on Sunday, after being pressured in all directions from all sides - and I have no doubt that some sides were dark and definitely not so clean. I like Bloomberg, he has guts and goes against the flow. His law against oversize soft drinks was sociopolitical poetry, apart from being a self-inflicted ...
In the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a Limited Pixel Essay
November 2, 2012
Marie and I took a walk along the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn on the day after impact. Then last night, 48 hours after hurricane force winds and record-high storm surge combined to extreme tides flooded many areas of the New York City boroughs, I went for a late afternoon run across the Brooklyn Bridge and into Manhattan's Financial District, point-and-shoot camera in hand.
Broad and Beaver Streets, Financial District, Manhattan
It was a sobering outing. The entire...
Sandy Be Gone
October 30, 2012
Twenty-four hours after the strongest winds were felt, New York City is in recovery mode, idle, disoriented, licking her wounds. It could have been worse, yet it could have been so much better. Wide-spread power outages and flooding, downed trees, drifting cars, sinking tunnels, skinned buildings, collapsing cranes, casualties, the Media has shown it all, there is nothing I can add.
All transit is still shut down. Lower Manhattan - aka the Financial District - remains ...
A Very Cool Wind Picture
October 29, 2012
As recently downgraded hurricane Sandy, now a tropical storm, still unleashes the strongest gusts so far on our little terrace - the northeast quadrant always being bad news - do yourself a favor and have a look at this very, very cool artsy representation of US wind speeds, live.
Warning, it loads slowly.
Sandy: C'mon Honey, it's not Like it's Armageddon!
October 28, 2012
As New York City, along with two or three entire states, prepares feverishly for the frontal assault of category 1 hurricane Sandy, I am left with a feeling of déjà vu, of sadness and resignation.
Having spent 15 years in the Caribbean and another year in the south Pacific and Southeast Asia, I saw a fifth season added to my calendar. Sure there were spring, summer, fall and winter, but there was also hurricane season. The storms were called typhoons in the south Pacifi...
The Great Hudson Escape - Part II, Fall
October 26, 2012
[This is part 2 of a story which started rising]
Old mountain-climbing habits prevent me from lingering too long at the summit, so despite the modesty of Bull Hill, I started down shortly after reaching the top. My knees never like the descent. I miss the days when I could hop from rock to rock like a mountain goat. I have become a mountain turtle. Slowly but surely.
Katydid
I stopped for a moment to take pictures of an insect which had been on the same rock all aft...