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Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019 (cdn.masto.host)
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Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.All the pixels, but you can't afford any of them anymore, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48#photography

A large cantilever bridge, illuminated along its superstructure, at night.
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[–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

This was captured with the Phase One IQ3-100 back, Phase One XF DSLR camera, and the Schneider 80mm/2.8 "Blue Ring" lens. I had planned to use a technical camera and the Rodenstock 70mm, providing movements, but a cable was missing from the kit I had with me in the city that night. Fortunately, the 80mm SLR lens was just wide enough to not require movements, though the Schneider lens renders highlights (as prominent starbursts) a bit idiosyncratically for my taste.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

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