TTW - The Cable Building

Taken thru a tinted taxi window - I've passed this building hundreds of times but never noticed this until getting stuck in traffic here yesterday. The Cable Building was built in the 1890s to house the generator plant which powered the cable cars that ran on Broadway at the time. Broadway & Houston Street, Manhattan.

TTW - Abandoned & Tagged

Taken thru the window of a moving Amtrak train a few minutes from Philadelphia's 30th Street Station

Abandoned Railroad Car

On an Amtrak train returning home from Philelphia, I spotted a familiar logo on an old rail car sitting near what seemed to be an abandoned building near Newark, NJ. Mays was a popular department store in the NYC area operated by the J. W. Mays company from the late 1920s thru the late 1980s. Taken thru the tinted window of a moving Amtrak NE Regional train.

Philadelphia City Hall at Sundown

Taken thru the hotel window - Looking west along Market Street at Philadelphia City Hall

Butterfly

Butterfly at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel Uiversity. This nocturnal guy did not seem to mind or even notice people getting up close. Philadelphia, PA

TTW - Avalon in Avalon

Through the Window -- Avalon Chrystie apartments reflected in the windows of Avalon Bowery apartments across E. Houston Street. Taken through the window of a Houston Street crosstown bus near the Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan.

TTW - Come One, Come Fun

There is a 1 or 2 block stretch of Houston Street, around Lafayette, with a couple of large billboards. This was taken through the window of a M21 crosstown bus that was caught up in a massive stop-and-go traffic jam around sunset this past Friday. Nolita, Manhattan.

Cooper - Astor - Union

Streetscape at Cooper Square, looking north past Astor Place towards Union Square. A wide variety of building styles, sizes, colors.

The red-brick buildings lit by late afternoon sun at the center are two of the 4 towers that were originally known as Zeckendorf Towers. Today they are known by two other names: 1 Irving Place and 1 Union Square East (but they'll always be Zeckendorf Towers to me). Peeking from behind those towers is the top of the Empire State Building further uptown at E. 34th Street.

Cooper Square Hotel

Close up of the facade of one of the modern buildings recently constructed in the Cooper Square area of Manhattan.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

A message on a wall on The Bowery near Rivington Street, Manhattan

Kozy Korner at Night

This is the corner that most Lower East Siders know as Cozy Corner - where Grand, Madison and Lewis Streets meet up. Lower East Side, Manhattan

I'm testing Canon's new G15 camera, which I hope will complement my G1X in those situations where I need a faster lens and faster focus. I do a lot of shooting from moving taxis/car service and buses. I find, in too many cases, where the G1X auto-focus is too slow to grab a shot before the car or bus moves on. Also, while the G1X has superb image quality in low light, it's slow lens often requires a slow shutter speed. Between my aging/shaking hands and my aversion to carrying a tripod, this often results in wonderfully exposed but blurred photos. I'm hoping the G15 will fill in the gap in these situations

Last year I switched from using a T3i dSLR to the G1X because back problems made it painful and difficult for me to carry around the dSLR and lenses (which is also why I don't carry a tripod). I absolutely LOVE the results I've been getting with the G1X most cases. The addition of the G15 should help with the rest.