Gantry Plaza State Park
the Gantry Plaza State Park is part of New York, NY (Manhattan) , New York City , Long Island City, NY .Top photos chosen by u all:
Gantry Park
Made by binkybink
This is Gantry Park in Long Island City sort of right outside my building. Oddly film makes it look wild westy to me. Yes it's film. Picked up a big batch of negatives the other day, and now am scanning to death. Anyway, I like it, I think i'm getting better at the film thing. What's becoming more obvious working with a manual medium format camera is that you can't shoot fast. I'm not really sure how it was ever done. I'm enjoying the slowness, but it's also changing what I'm shooting. I've got a new project coming up which I think i'll shoot with both. Oh, and the shutter synch doesn't work with cheap ring flash for those wondering.... or at least i haven't figured out the right shutter synch setting.
NYC - Queens - LIC - Pepsi-Cola Sign and Queensboro Bridge
Made by wallyg
When Pepsi-Cola erected its big red neon sign in Long Island City, along the Queens side of the East River, in 1936, ships would steam up to the plant below it and unload sacks of sugar from Havana. Soda hasn't been bottled there for years and the plant was torn down in 2004 to make way for a high-rise apartment complex. So the sign--unofficial landmark and longtime beacon to local residents, film location scouts, and drunken taxicab passengers on the F.D.R. Drive--had to move, migrating letter by letter, from the plant's roof to a site on the ground, three hundred feet to the south. The was designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1974.
A View from Queens
Made by RMac_Photography
This shot is from the Gantry Plaza State Park...I just happened upon this on my way back from LaGuardia Int'l Airport...I was just trying to get close...a lost out-of-towner, gettin' lucky finding this spot...
NYC Syline
Made by Jemlnlx
From Gantry Plaza Park in Long Island City, Queens, NY...First attempt at a Night Skyline Set
NYC Skyline
Made by Jemlnlx
First attempt at a Night Skyline Set...
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