NYC Waterfront Sundown

A sundown view of buildings along the Hudson River waterfront on the west side of Manhattan, The pyramid shaped building at the center is the Via 57 West residential building. As the name suggests, the area is the high 50s numbered streets of NYC, almost the upper northern end of the midtown area.

A vertical format scene of layers of buildings of the New York Skyline as the sundown hour begins. The Intrepid Air and Space Museum can be seen at the Hudson River waterfront while above and behind, the two towers of the Time Warner Complex appear to stand guard. The Time Warner Center is a mixed-use building complex, located at Columbus Circle, across from the southwest corner of Central Park. The twin office and residential towers are joined by a multi-story atrium at street level with retail shops and eateries. The complex also houses the Mandarin Oriental New York hotel. Constructed as the AOL Time Warner Center, the offices of WarnerMedia (formerly Time Warner) and an R&D center for VMware are located there but will soon move to the new Hudson Yards area further south in midtown. The Time Warner building will be renamed when the move is completed and a new anchor tenant takes over the space.

NYC Sunshine Afternoon

A view of the midtown Manhattan skyline and the new towers of Hudson Yards on the west side of NYC as a rain storm breaks up and the beginning golden hour warm sunlight starts its magical transformation of colors and light.

New York City under Blue Skies

New York City and the Hudson River toned in pastel blues as skies begin to clear after a rainy day just as the sundown golden hour is about to begin.

Juvenile Ring-billed Gull

A vertical format image of a juvenile ring-billed gull with a partial reflection in the waters of the New JErsey Meadowlands.. The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized gull. They are one of the most common gulls found across the USA. They feed by foraging on the ground or while wading or swimming in the water and often steal food from other birds. Their diet includes insects, fish, grain, eggs, earthworms and rodents. Make sure your food is protected if you picnic where they congregate. Natural enemies of the gulls are rats, foxes, dogs, cats, raccoons, coyotes, eagles, hawks, and owls.

Mallard Drake-Spring Molt

A swimming mallard drake that appears to have begun his spring molt when feathers fall out and new ones grow to replace those lost. During the height of the molt, ducks are unable to fly untill all of their new wing feathers have grown in.

Mallard Duck Pair

A pair of mallard ducks swimming in marsh waters at NJ Meadowlands in late afternoon sun.

Pink Lenten Rose

A close up view of a pink Lenten Rose flower - the first blooming flower that I've seen in Spring 2019. Lenten rose plants are not members of the rose family but are Helleborus genus. It is a herbac(Helleborus x hybridus) are not roses at all but a hellebore hybrid. They are perennial herbaceous flowers that derived the common name because they are early Spring bloomers, often during Lent, and the flowers look like roses.

NYC Painted by Sundown

A vertical format view of the skyscrapers of New York City's Hudson Yards skyscrapers and the Hudson River as the sundown hues from across the river to the West reflect on the midtown Manhattan towers and the blue sky above paints the river in blues. Sometimes the effect of nature on stark manmade structures can create an amazing, colorful transformation and this was one of those moments.

Cityscape in Blue and Gold

A view of skyscrapers, buildings and rofftop water tanks of midtown New York City as sundown colors and shadows create a palette of blues and gold-oranges and a contrast between light and dark.

The Vessel in Blue and Gold

New York City's largest development project since Rockefeller Center was built in the 1930s held its Grand Opening in March 2019. This is Phase 1 of the massive project which is located on the west side of midtown Manhattan. Hudson Yards is built over railroad yards and is bing promoted as the new neighborhood of the city. It will eventually contain 17 high rise buildings and a school. At the current time, the primary redisential and office buildings have opened or are about to open with over 100 retail shops, many eateries including high end restaurants,a park and a climbable 16 floor structure with mre than 100 sets of stairs that visitors can climb. Here you can see "The Vessel" partially silhouetted against some of the shop windows as the night lights turn on and the buildings and structure are toned in blues from the twilight blue sky above.

New York's Steel Mountain to Climb

A vertical format view of a section of the public park area of Hudson Yards NYC. The Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project is the largest scale construction project in NYC since Rockefeller Center was designed and constructed in the 1930's. Located on the west side of midtown Manhattan, the project covers multiple blocks and will hold 17 skyscrapers, a school, a performing arts area, over 100 retail shops, restaurants. The centerpiece in the public park area is a 16 story climbable structure named "The Vessel" with over 100 sets of stairs. Much of the project is built on a platform over railway yeards. In this view, you can see some of the levels of construction including the rail yards at the base, the Vessel and park and behind that, the bright lights of the retail shops that form the lower levels of a high rise building. Viewed from across the Hudson River in New Jersey. Take a close look to see the people at the top of the structure is get a sense of the scale of it.

Full Moon Blues NYC

A view of New York City midtown skyscrapers and a pale full Worm moom rising in a cloudy, mist filled sky. The early twilight muted blue hues are reflected in the buildings. The moon only briefly appeared like a ghost in the sky before disappearing back behind the clouds.

NY Skyline Moonlit Blues

A view of the ful Worm Moon rising in a hazy, cloudy sky over New York City as the twilight hour begins The clouds and haze obsured the moon as it came over the skyscraper horizon, but then it briefly fought its way through the mist long enough to beam some light over the city, creating this pastel pallette of blue and mauve hues. Like many lovely, unusual moments in nature, it lasted for only a short few minutes, if that, before disappearing behind the low layers of blue hour clouds.

NYC Building Night Lights

When night falls on New York City, the builfding nightlights stretch across the island of Manhattan to create a skyline scene that has captured photographers' and painters' imaginations for years. As new buildings go up with new, more modern architecture with less than notable spires or rooftops, skyline adapts and eventrually the new blends with the old. That said, there are a few buildings of old that stand out and seem to defy the big and bold new structures. The Empire State Building, that will always be the symbol of the city; the Chrysler Building, Tthe Woolworth Bui8lding to name a few but this treasure is one of my favorites - the top of the Met Life Building. Seen here in a skyline vertical scene among other city structures as viewed from New Jersey.

NYC Golden Rooftop in the Night

When night falls on New York City, the builfding nightlights stretch across the island of Manhattan to create a skyline scene that has captured photographers' and painters' imaginations for years. As new buildings go up with new, more modern architecture with less than notable spires or rooftops, skyline adapts and eventrually the new blends with the old. That said, there are a few buildings of old that stand out and seem to defy the big and bold new structures. The Empire State Building, that will always be the symbol of the city; the Chrysler Building, Tthe Woolworth Bui8lding to name a few but this treasure is one of my favorites - the top of the New York Life Insurance Building.

Floral Salute to Ireland

A section of a bouquet of flowers in the colors of Ireland's flag. The orange, green and white bouquest includes mums, daylilies and other white flowers.

Sundown Light NYC Financial District

A view of the towers of the lower Manhattan Financial World Trade area with the Freedom Tower (One World Trade) rising high above the other skyscrapers as sundown light turns the scene into a pallette of blues and yellows.

NYC Hudson Yards Starstruck at Sundown

A landscape format view of the midtown Manhattan skyline at sundown with the lowering sun glinting off the towers of New York's Hudson Yards and creating sun stars. A gorgeous array of blue sky and clouds top the scene with the sky blue reflected in the Hudson River.

St Patrick's Day Bouquet

A section of a bouquet of flowers in the Ireland colors of green, white and orange. Flowers in the bouquet include mums, daisies, and a rose.

Ireland's Colors Bouquet

A vertical format image of a section of a floral bouquet in greens, white and orange in honor of Ireland and St. Patrick's Day withdaisies, mums and hydrangea flowers. ,

NYC Hudson Yards Golden Hour Glow

A vertical format view of the skyscrapers of the Hudson Yards section of New York City. Located in midtown on the west side, the new development offers residential and office towers, restaurants, retail l stores and more including a park. A climbable 16 story high climbable sculpture named the Vessel is the centerpiece of the public prk area seen here at the bottom center of the image. The redevelopment project, built on a platform over the train yards, it the largest development project in Manhattan since Rockefeller Center was built. The tallest buildfing features a viewing platform on the 100th floor, the hightest in the Northern Hemisphere, to be opened in the coming months. Viewed from New Jersey across the Hudson River.

Mallard Female- Sundown Swim

A swimming female mallard takes a snack break with golden sundown light bring out the gold in her plumage. The deep blue color of the sky above is reflected in the marsh waters.

Mallard Reflected on Sky Blue Waters

A photograph of a mallard hen in late afternoon sunlight with her image almost perfectly reflected in still waters of the New Jersey Meadowlands with the blue sky color reflected in the water.

Swimming Mallard Drake

A mallard drake enjoying a swim in late afternoon sunshine in waters reflecting a bright blue sky.

Mallard Hen Reflected on Blue

A female mallard duck sitting pretty and soaking up the sun at low tide in the New Jersey Meadowlands with the water calm and blue from the reflected sky.

NYC Skycrapers Mauve and Blue Twilight

A vertical format view of the skyscrapers of New York City, including the new tall towers of Hudson Yards, and the Hudson River in a pallette of mutliple blues and mauve on a cloudy day as a reluctant sundown turns to the blues of the twilight hour.

New York City Sundown Blues

A view of the skyline of midtown Manhattan and the Hudson River on a cloudy day as a hint of mauve sundown color shows in the sky that is most ly filled with twilight blue clouds.

NYC Hudson Yards Sundown Magic

A vertical format view of the towers of the New York City Hudson Yards project at sundown when the amazing variety of sunset colors in the sky seemed to be doubly magnified as they were reflected from the sunset skies westward across the Hudson River. An incredible sight to see this display of blues, cyans, greens, turquoise, gold, red, orange, and yellow all in one image of city skyscrapers. Who would guess that it can look like this, far surpassing the normal sundown colors.

Sundown on New York City

A view of New York City skyscrapers with the towers of the Hudson Yards Development Project in the center in the frame. Views at sundown from across the Hudson River in New Jersey. The newly completed skyscrapers have changed the entire skyline of the city as they tower far above the other structures of the midtown area.

NYC Towers in a Sundown Sky

A vertical format view in hue of blue and gold of the towers of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment project at sundown as viewed from New Jersey. Scheduled to open in mid-March, the development offers multiple office and residencial towers, retail stores, eateries, a park including a climbable sculpture named "The Vessel" and the tallest tower boasting an outside platform on the 100th floor to provide an outstanding view of the city. Coming in the future, a school, performing arts center and more.

NYC Sundown Beginnings

A view of the New York City skyling and Hudson River as the sundown warm light begins at the end of an afternoon on a chilly March day. The towers at the center of the frame are part of the new Hudson Yards Redevelopment project.

NYC Hudson Yards Afternoon Blues

A view of the towers of the Hudson Yards complex in midtown Manhattan. These towers are office and residential buildings that are part of the NYC west side redeveopment project that includes high end retail stores, eateries, a climbable sculpture named "The Vessel" and an open park area. Opening in March 2919, this is the first segment of the 'neighborhood" that will eventually include a school and a performing arts area. The tallest tower features a viewing platform on the 100th floor that will allow view all over the city.

St Patrick's Day Leprechaun Greeting

A fun St. Patrick's Day greeting, perfect for a card, a hand towel, coffee mug, tapestry or other item to celebrate the spriti of this beloved Irish cerlebration day. A leprechaun is a fiary in Irish folklore, typically rendered as sprightly, mischievious, tiny bearded me dressed in green. According to the folklore, they are solitary fairies who make and mend shoes, saving their money in a pot of gold hidden at the end of a rainbow. If a human is lucky enough to catch one, the leprechaun will grant the human three wishes in exchange for it's freedom. While the holiday celebrates Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, the green shamrocks, wearing of the green, leprechauns, pots of gold, rainbows and green beer have all become clumped together to depict the celebration of the day. So thik about your three wishes and go tread softly outside somewhere to find yourself a leprechaun. In the meantime, this one makes a cute gift your yourself or someone else,

Pink Rose Art Portrait

A portrait image of a pink rose with digitally painted texture layers.