Street View, NYC
The New York City trips I have taken over the past five years consitute an extremely varied body of work. It was as if I could not be limited by subject matter or format, my eye exploring every avenue. I was fortunate to have 5 (or is it 6) trips from which to choose images.
The editing process for this group has boiled down to , “Can I look at this image another hundred times?” If I can, it makes the cut. I have reviewed these images probably more than any other group of work I can think of. The NYC images are comprised of film and digital captures..even going so far as to haul the C220 around (that is probably what gave me some minor shoulder problems..yeah, film is expensive.)
The series currently uploading to flickr are from a batch of about 500-600 quickie prints from the local fotomat..remember those? Ok, it wasn’t fotomat but they are 4×6 prints that you get to anticipate and look forward to picking up, then go through roll by roll in order of how you shot, reliving the trip frame by frame. By now, my batch is crazy messed up with initials on the back of friends favorites..and probably missing a few. I have only scanned about 1/3 of them, of which this is about another 1/3. Then add in the digital. Nice to have a project.
Wendy
