Meanwhile.... HAPPY AUTUMN!
(Or spring "down under")
Photos here are from prior seasons - thus far New York is still holding on to late summer, not many hints of fall.
But the colors will come, eventually, even with disruptions to things like weather, climate, environment.
#mywork #Fenfotos #photography #autumn #CentralPark #NY #seasons
Now for something different..
Heavenly #erhu #music in Central Park - Part 2
My 1st goal - aside from exercise & enjoying a beautiful Sunday in the Park- was to inaugurate & test a new camera.
✔︎
A 2nd goal was to get some more/better images of the famous and beautiful ceiling.
Designed by Jacob Wrey Mould and created in the 1860s, the Arcade features a stunning tiled ceiling with more than 15,000 colorful, patterned encaustic tiles from England’s famous Minton Tile Company. These elaborate tiles were originally used on the floors of European cathedrals. Bethesda Arcade is the only place in the world where these special tiles are used for a ceiling! [cenralpark.com]
Video1 was grabbed with an iPhone, which I must say did a nice job. This 2nd one, after scrambling to set up the new camera, is in true 4K and (for me) 'feature length' - long compared to my nature snippets. Be sure, if viewing on hi-res-big/bright screen, to set the YT player (gear at bottom of picture) to 4K, if it didn't choose it with the 'auto-set'). It makes a difference in "being there", as the mix of serene music and people and pets strolling by and up/down the Bethesda Terrace stairs... Serene. And I guess the camera works ok.
Sorry for the shake - hand-held and trying to realistically 'look around' and also get some screen-grab-quality images of the tiles.]
Enjoy!
#Fenfotos #NYC #NewYork #CentralPark #erhu #MusicalInstruments #Music #BethesdaArcade #tiles #musica #musique
Just re-visiting a few favorite spots in Central Park, one of which is Bethesda Terrace, with its iconic Angel of the Waters Fountain and the nearby terrace beneath the park transverse, with exquisite ceiling, and acoustics.a
#music #Chinese #erhu #MusicalInstruments #CentralPark #Fenfotos #photography #music #musica #musique #musik
Sunday in the Park
Central Park NYC 18 Aug 2024
Today the predicted rain and thunderstorms held off until nearly sunset, a gray and eerie light in the park meanwhile.
I revisited my 'power spot' (with the boat house) and saw music at the band shell (quite percussive) . Then I headed to the Bethesda Terrace promenade by the fountain, my goal being to revisit the Italian mosaic tiles, above this man from China, playing the erhu.
Happy Sunday!
A VERY short clip of the Angel of the Waters at the Bethesda Fountain (Central Park) on a gorgeous day, late October... 🌞
PS: Dear Europeans - You're one hour closer to American time this week, I now understand. (The clocks still turn here early November.)
#MyVideo #mywork #Fenfotos #NewYork #CentralPark #NYC
More #photography of Central Park #autumn: @ http://www.fenichel.com/bowbridge.shtml
And truly, you'd think it was the Fourth of July... 80℉ / 26.7℃ in Central Park, NYC, last weekend of October.
My "power spot" for years, another image of this (by me) gracing the cover of a suitably titled book, One Day's Perfect Weather
#myphoto #Fenfotos #CentralPark #NewYork #NYC #autumn #foliage #music #Chicago #musica #musique #musik
If exit polls in Poland’s parliamentary election are accurate, the country has backed away from its anti-democratic and anti-EU stance. The opposition led by Donald Tusk will be able to form a stable governing coalition, with enormous consequences for the EU and Ukraine aid. - Source: https://www.gmfus.org/news/exit-right-polish-election-appears-herald-seismic-political-shift
Photo of King Jagiello by #Fenfotos ( #myphoto ) - www.fenichel.com/NYNY.shtml
#CentralPark #photography #Jagiello #Poland #election #Beatles #sunshine
One more from Central Park...
Because where there are bees, there are birds. (So it is said.)
More Nature photography (linked to near-bottomless photo collections of nature, cities, and "other" - including autumn foliage:
http://www.fenichel.com/nature
#housesparrow #sparrow #fenfotos #myphoto #birds #nature #CentralPark #autumn #foliage
Central Park Nature - # 2
More photos of Central Park (and New York, nature, and bits of the world): Photography by Fenichel: Central Park
#fenfotos #MyPhoto #nature #CentralPark #NYC #NewYork #photography
Turtles in Central Park
Before the latest deluge...
More photos of Central Park (and New York, nature, and bits of the world): Photography by Fenichel: Central Park
#fenfotos #MyPhoto #turtles #CentralPark #NYC #NewYork #photography
"Saturday in the Park"
With David Applolito, 🎸
"That guitar man from Central Park" singing of his days, and yearnings to be...
#Mexico #MyVIdeo #CentralPark #DavidIppolito #Guitar #GuitarMan #NewYork
Beautiful weather, 1st in a long while, with blue sky, dry breeze... Surprised to find so few people; maybe locals have all fled &/or not that many tourists are heading to NYC. So, I sat and watched, me and bird or two who joined me. "Cool" & calm in Central Park.
As for the song, it has become a tradition but this year I missed a visit to "the park" on or close to "4th of July".
Still perfect, 'you'd think it was the 4th of July'. Close enough. New video this year. #Chicago
#MyPhotos #NYC #NewYork #CentralPark #photography #Fenfotos || #music #musica #musique #SaturdayInThePark
A short clip (30s) from Central Park on a gorgeous spring (2023) day...
Here you see & hear a singer performing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", while over her are the unique and stunning 19th-Century encaustic "Minton" tiles.
Article about these tiles: Central Park's Bethesda Terrace Arcade
Newlyweds and models pose for photographers nearby. Behind the arches is the famed "Angel of the Waters" Fountain.
Reminded of a book whose cover my photograph appears on, "One Day's Perfect Weather" (Daniel Stern, 1999). On that is a little gazebo/boat stop on the Central Park Lake. You can see that image @ http://www.fenichel.com/cpboat.htm
More images/photography of New York (and a dozen + other travel hotspots) : http://www.fenichel.com/NYNY.shtml
#myphoto #myvideo #CentralPark #NewYork #NYC #NYNY #photography #Bethesda #fountain #architecture
A tiny taste of Central Park (NYC), at Strawberry Fields, near the Imagine mosaic. [29s video]
Good day, sunshine. 🎶 🌞
#NewYork #NYC #Imagine #CentralPark #StrawberryFields #JohnLennon #Fenfotos #myphoto #photography
Something Different: Gray Catbird
What's most different for me, in encountering a bird I've never seen before, is seeing it in New York's Central Park!
I'm used to pigeons and starlings, robins and jays, plus occasional hawks, but while not uncommon, this was new for me.
Recently transitioning from southern swamps & marshes to urban jungle, this oasis with flowers & birds was a pleasant surprise with the diversity of birds just in this little garden (near Bethesda Fountain and Strawberry Fields).
Called a "catbird" due to its "meow" cry, I've now learned, it is a relative of the mockingbird, & will mimic other birds in addition to cats.
While trying to ID it, I came across this short vid with a sample of a Gray Catbird Singing
I'll keep an ear out in the future, although between people, horses, and music, it's not always so quiet.
#photography #NYC #Fenfotos #bird #GrayCatbird #birds #BirdPhotography #myphoto #NewYork #CentralPark #nature
Back from the swamps & jungle of the South, returned to the urban jungle.
First spring walk in Central Park, and of course I stopped at my 'power spot'.
Why that? It's a serene little cove of the lake, where I took a photo - this exact spot - decades ago, and it became a book cover.
A bit weird for me still, with such strong memories of first returning to the walk at the tail end of the height of the Pandemic.
The original photo is here, along with links to other NYC (and world) photography.
#MyPhoto #CentralPark #NYC #NewYork #Fenfotos #photography #gazebo
Now for something completely different!
I'm not sure how I feel about this....
The #GoogleDoEvil gods are really churning out #YouTube #Shorts - I suppose to compete w/TikTok. Now they've tapped my shorts!
That said, who could not like this? Yes, I took the vid, but never made a YT "Short" (as an altered-for-gimmick grab).
Eh, will this make me a star as YT shorts take my (old) vids and turn them into cute clips? Meh... "We'll see." This is Mick.
#accordion #Mick #CentralPark #Moscow #musician #smile #smiling #myphoto #Fenfotos #short
