Week 31 - Exploring Morning Light
For the month of April our group decided to capture light at four different times a day: early morning, midday, evening and night. This first week I ventured out in my West Harlem neighborhood at 6:45 a.m. when I knew the sun would be rising up and over 145th street. This is the time of day with the least amount of traffic as well, so every time the street light turned red I would hustle out to the double yellow line and get on bended knee. I used my wide angle zoom lens in order to get as much of the setting as possible in the frame. What's not included however, is the handful of lovable lowlifes that were wrapping up their night on the streets. The funny part to me is how quiet and serene the image appears and yet, at this particular time, I was dodging the harassment of a toothless, pantless (and truly harmless) female crackhead. Oh for the love of the craft amongst New York City's colorful landscape!
Harlem sunrise
Please continue along to see the rest of Photo 52's images for this week. Next up is Kelly Roth Patton of Brooklyn, New York.