Good place to visit - tough place to live
This is how a local described his city to me this morning. he had randomly started a conversation asking me what exactly I was picturing on 6th avenue (an NYPD car, a yellowcab and the Chrysler building).
As far as the traffic is concerned I must say: it is far more decent than I expected, almost calm and disciplined. Maybe Mumbai traffic in my mind is simply too hard to beat.
My lonely planet had listed a synagoge on my walk through China town. I thought I could hop in for a few minutes and check the building from the inside. The staff offered me a tour, and as no one else was showing up, i got a very personal 1 hour tour through one of New York's oldest Synagoges, plenty of small and bigger stories about the city, its history, people and particularly Jewish community included.
As far as my camera equipment is concerned, just two little stories: in the morning at breakfast I went through yesterday's pictures realising that dust was sticking on my sensor. The manual suggests in such a case to take a picture of a white wall. I don't know what the waiter of that deli was thinking when this weird guest started taking pictures of their wall. "Don't ask!" I just suggested to his astonishment.
In the evening I took a ride on the Staten Island ferry. By the time I arrived on Staten Island the sun had set and the skyline of Manhattan was blinking just in front of me. The good thing about tripods is that they make shots in the dark of such objects possible. The bad thing about them is, that you never have them with you, when needed. In my case I the thing was in my room here in New York, but not attached to my rucksack as I did not want to carry it through the city the whole day.
After 20minutes of fighting I finally managed to attach the camera to my rucksack, which than I layed accross a dust bin.
As far as the traffic is concerned I must say: it is far more decent than I expected, almost calm and disciplined. Maybe Mumbai traffic in my mind is simply too hard to beat.
My lonely planet had listed a synagoge on my walk through China town. I thought I could hop in for a few minutes and check the building from the inside. The staff offered me a tour, and as no one else was showing up, i got a very personal 1 hour tour through one of New York's oldest Synagoges, plenty of small and bigger stories about the city, its history, people and particularly Jewish community included.
As far as my camera equipment is concerned, just two little stories: in the morning at breakfast I went through yesterday's pictures realising that dust was sticking on my sensor. The manual suggests in such a case to take a picture of a white wall. I don't know what the waiter of that deli was thinking when this weird guest started taking pictures of their wall. "Don't ask!" I just suggested to his astonishment.
In the evening I took a ride on the Staten Island ferry. By the time I arrived on Staten Island the sun had set and the skyline of Manhattan was blinking just in front of me. The good thing about tripods is that they make shots in the dark of such objects possible. The bad thing about them is, that you never have them with you, when needed. In my case I the thing was in my room here in New York, but not attached to my rucksack as I did not want to carry it through the city the whole day.
After 20minutes of fighting I finally managed to attach the camera to my rucksack, which than I layed accross a dust bin.
posted by Sabi at 5:55 AM
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