The Way Matt Sees It

It's become tradition at Christmas time that I make a calendar of photos I've taken in NYC with my DSLR camera. Unfortunately due to COVID-19, I only visited the city a handful of times this year and didn't go taking pictures (besides a few quick shots with my iPhone). So for this year's calendar, I took some of my favorite past photos to create my NYC 2021 calendar. COVER IMAGE - Columbus Ave, Broadway & The Lincoln Performing Arts Center Okay so for this first cover image, it's actually a panoramic photo I took with my iPhone 7 (it's the one  exception I made to the DSLR rule, at the behest of others). This view is from The Empire Hotel which we visited for my sister's birthday in 2018. It's a gorgeous view of New York, and you can see the Lincoln Performing Arts Center to the left. JANUARY - Atlas, Rockefeller Center This grand statue with the building towering behind it is an iconic location in NYC, and has appeared in multiple films. I took this...

Last year I challenged myself personally to create a calendar of pictures I took of New York City with my Pentax camera. The trick was that it couldn’t be made of photos taken with my iPhone. I love taking pictures of the city and so this was my way of doing something with it. These are the list of photos that I’m including for the 2019 calendar.   Below each photo is a brief commentary on what went on behind the lens, or what may have been the inspiration for each photo. Last year’s 2018 calendar (made up of pictures I took in 2017 with my Pentax) was primarily all of my favorite iconic shots of New York. This year, instead of taking those same types of photos over again (which I am likely to do, I can’t get enough of them), I wanted to continue to push myself to take a different type of photography. I wanted to take pictures that weren’t necessarily the traditional image, but were still clearly New York . COVER IMAGE – Downtown NYC from the Staten Island...