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31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024. (fedia.io)
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31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024.

Excessive pixels, each famous for 15 minutes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One XT IQ4-150 camera. 12mm vertical shift to maintain geometry.

This is a straightforward head-on single point perspective view of the facades of the varied buildings on this block just after sunrise. It took some time to line up the camera to be parallel to the faces of the buildings, once again making photography be something of an exercise in surveying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Union Square West between 16th and 17th Streets in Manhattan is home to five distinctive and variously historically significant narrow mid-rise buildings.

The quirky Decker Building (2nd from left, at 33 Union Square West) is now chiefly residential with a retail ground floor storefront. From 1967-1973 the building housed Andy Warhol's "Factory" studio, where, in 1968, he was famously and nearly fatally shot by an irate Valarie Solanas. The neighborhood was more colorful back then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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I love me some Union Square!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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Brains are funny. Mine always tries to add lens distortion to your perfectly straight images.
It’s as if it doesn’t believe that it is corrected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] Love the black and white.

@[email protected] Thought you should see ;-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] Hah! I get that reference! Great picture!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Do you know anything about the fourth building from the left, the modern, 1960’s? facade?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I believe it's actually an older building that had a renovation in the 60's or 70's, giving it the modern-looking facade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] Interesting. My old stomping grounds, but I always see something new, something that didn’t register before.