When I shot this one on Monday, I though for sure that this was going to be a color photograph. Only problem was that on Tuesday when I processed it, there was a color shift because of the late day sun and the sky with the clouds looked like nothing special. So this B&W kick that I’m on came to the rescue.
Remove the color and adjust the contrast to highlight the clouds.
So was it the right choice, you decide. Take a look and decide for yourself if I made the right choice
July means feast Time here in Pelham Bay. St Theresa Chuch and school has it’s annual feast. Here is a photo journey thru this year’s feast.
20 inches of snow fell overnight in New York City last night (01.27 11). After digging out our cars (previous post), I took a little trip out on my snow day off from work
The neighborhoods were still a mess in the afternoon. Up and down my block people were still trying to shovel out the sidewalks
But even after they were cleared there still was a battle to get thru waist high snow banks
The plow banks after the roads were plowed, made it impossible to get from the sidewalk to the street
after digging out the car and clearing thru the plow bank, we were able to finally get the car out of the driveway. The snow piles in my front yard are as tall as my Toyota SUV.
But after getting the SUV out, the streets were still clogged with plows, police cars and ambulances on my street
and that blocked street led to this backup
later on after the street cleared, we got out
I went up Pelham Parkway towards Fordham road
Traffic varied, but was on the light side
The 12 Bus runs up and down Pelham Parkway. At one of the stops on the side of the road, this older gentleman with a walker was waiting for his bus.
The entrance to Bronx River Pkwy off of Pelham Parkway is clear
Up towards Fordham Road Arthur Ave in Little Italy, was a mess
But Mikes Deli was open and just as good as ever
Back to the neighboor hood and the on going battle to get the cars dug out
I thought that these 2 cars were in the deepest >>>>>>>
Until the next block when I came across these 2 which were so covered over that one of the owners put a sign up hoping that the plows would not destroy his covered cars
So lets go take a ride over to Pelham Bay Park
The lot is un plowed and impassable. Of course those tire tracks in the unplowed snow are mine, Had to play with the 4 wheel drive.
Over on the other side of the park, the plaza is untouched
The park is completely snowbound at twilight
and still futher around the park , Pelham Bay is starting to freeze over and snow covered
The docks at one end are completely snow covered
and passing Turtle Cove on the way back home
20 inches of snow fell in New York City overnight on top of he foot that still was on the ground
No one has gotten out to work, schools closed
Start of the storm at midnight
Cars this morning
Joe Junior digging out his 4 runner
6 foot tall pile just from driveway entrance, no place to put it
Getting some shots of the beach after a big snow has been on my list of things to do for a long time. New York is having it’s snowiest winter in years. 5 storms in 3 weeks time, 2 big dunps, i small one and a 4 incher on Friday past.
I took 2 trips to the beavh, one last Thursday Jan 12th and one today Jan 22. On the 12th it was brutally cold just under 20 F and with the winds comming off the Long Island Sound the wind chill put it below 0 F. really froze my fingers off that day. Todays trip was better, bright sun and a temp in the low 30;s.
Last week I used the D300 with the 18-135 DX zoom Nikkor. Today I wanted to play with an older lens of mine. The d300 had on it one of my first Autofocus len which I had gotten for my F5 a number of years ago. The 70-210 F 4 Push Pull Nikkor AF was never one I liked using. I perfer a zoom ring over push pull. The lens still works great and I could get use to the push pull.
2 brave people at the far north end of the beach walikng thru 12 inches of snow in butal cold
looking south, the red no swimning flags are flying ( really).
no lines at the food stands
the off season project is on hold till the weather breaks
feels funny to be there without any other people around
No Kidding
Mom’s jogging while Dad watches the Kid being a kid
the entrance walk ways with their wintery look
same with the playground area
main entrance way
a little activity on the boardwald. Surprized that it was plowed.
and the dog was walking it’s owner
While this friendly person insisted that I take their picture at the beach
Joseph Leotta Photography 
