Remulak, a small town in France. Ah, the Coneheads, a personal favorite sketch from Saturday Night Live for good reason.

Because to return to the conehead’s home planet of Remulak, the coneheads had to use the Chrysler Building as their return vehicle.

Fortunate for us, the coneheads never came to get the sublime Chrysler Building and thank god, because it is a beautiful building. And, as most beautiful things, really freakin’ hard to photograph. Really hard.

Sure, I could take photographs like this one:

But these never look the way I want them to. The building is glinting off in the distance, but on film, it just doesn’t come across. It probably has to do with the limitations of the digital camera. Of course it also has to do with the limitations of my day, as I can’t stand there for an hour figuring out how to position the camera. My hands also shake like crazy, making taking these photographs all the more difficult.

However, I’ve always thought that the shots of the Chrysler building were amazing and the best thing to capture is the sun bursts on the top. The thing is 77 floors high and I haven’t mastered levitation yet, so I stand, trying to get the sun bursts with my beautiful zoom lens on the digital. Those things usually can zoom in pretty well but in the image window, what you want to photograph is totally blurry.

So, here are the results of all of that. And also, keep in mind that I tried to match the vertical lines of the building with the sides of image that the camera made. Just that slightest shift took the photo from blah to something that I hope looks that it is on its way to being semi-artistic.

Let’s have a look see:
(you have to click on the photos to get the full effect).

See anything you like?