New York City

New York City at Christmas.  Again, not a photography trip, but I tried to take a few interesting pictures. 

This is Rockefeller Center and the iconic Christmas tree.  This is the only usable picture I could get without thousands of people in the foreground.

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The Guggenheim is a Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpiece.  It was also very crowded and you are only allowed to take pictures on the ground floor, which is even strange for a museum.  Again, lots of people, but a little post processing makes it work.  Click her for another shot from an earlier trip when the museum was closed.

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My favorite fruit related tech company (from the inside of the new Upper West Side store).

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Taking pictures in museums is a bit of a challenge--I don't simply want to take a picture of someone else's art, so I try to catch an angle or get the experience of the observer.  At the Museum of Modern Art:

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This shot outside of Rockefeller Center is a little artsy, but I like the effect of the camera blur on St. Patrick's Cathedral in the background.  The sharp focus image was boring.

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Oh yeah--we ran into several thousand Santas in Central Park.  They seemed to be enjoying themselves and not keeping track of naughty lists.

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