Point camera, shoot into sun. You are never supposed to do this, but hey, I was never really good at following rules anyway. My first shots like this was of the bridge between two islands in Denmark being built. The shots were beautiful, so I have continued with this. Here’s another in color:

For the photo nerds out there, I did not add any vignetting to this thing. It just happened naturally.

And, a few diagonals:

Doesn’t this look like a picture your grandmother would take with her Kodak Brownie?

Ain’t she pretty?

These are the best kind of pictures because you bring your own stuff to these sorts of photos:

I had to leave my apartment and it was raining outside, really bad. Boy, was I happy, but as usual, I made the best of it. That means taking my handy-dandy camera and snapping as many shots as I could of the rain. I hid under a canopy. One short circuited camera from rain picture taking that cost $200 to fix taught me that lesson. I got a lot of shots, but this one was my favorite:

Altered states:

Lovely sorta sunrise over the buildings in Madison Square Park, a sight I am lucky enough to see every day now. Now that I am working. And no longer a vampire. Getting up early, yeah that will take some getting used to.

Should I just get into the time macheen and go back to the 1940s New York I am trying to portray in my photos? I think the answer to that question is yes:

Gotta go. Need to get to work at my time macheen!

Shots of Brooklyn at night in b&w you will get:

This is Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, where the fictional Humphrey family of Gossip Girl fame lives. Not that I am even slightly obsessed with that show. Oh wait. I am.

I hope so:

I did two versions because I wasn’t sure which one I liked more. Something about the way the guy had his hands on his knees made me want to photograph him.

Or, color me b&w:

This is a window display in New York. Some wise-ass gave me a 1 out of 10 on http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/index.php?offset=5&search=natalia%20radziejewska. Ridiculous. I happen to like this picture, so there, haters.

Still trying to be a photojournalist:

Am I ready for the New York Times yet? Maybe?:

OK, its the entrance to an old, abandoned pool that is now a performance space in the wilds of Brooklyn. Here it is as it really looks, sorta:

This is the McCarren Pool in Williamsburg, my latest obsession. Look forward to many more photos of it.