New York, NY -- The next time you are in New York, take the broadway local to Canal St. and walk east on Canal past the ramp to the Manhattan Bridge. There is a bona fide autonomous island city within the island, under the bridge downtown, of citizen skaters.

[CreationBear]

Definitely digging the first in the set, if only as an excuse to trot out the old Bresson chestnut.

[Schraubstock]

Definitely digging the first in the set, if only as an excuse to trot out the old Bresson chestnut.

One blurred photo is a mistake, ten is an experiment and 100 is a style.

You decide which category this one belongs to. I stay out of it !

[oculus]

One blurred photo is a mistake, ten is an experiment and 100 is a style.

You decide which category this one belongs to. I stay out of it !

Ha, spot on. The first and second in the series above were taken with a diminutive point-and-shoot rangefinder, the Olympus XA (max SS 1/500). The camera is semi-automatic in that you choose the aperture (2.8-22) of the F-ZUIKO 1:2.8 f=35mm lens. The camera meters and automatically selects shutter speed (up to 1/500) based on aperture and iso input (25-800). Here I metered tri-x 400 for 800 and, on a semi-cloudy day, chose f/4 in an attempt to keep the SS high. I should have chosen f/2.8 (the blur is not intentional).

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[CreationBear]

Fortune favors the prepared mind...the first B&W in the new set is the best of all.