Rochester, New York
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Rochester, also known as both The Flour City and The Flower City, is a city in Monroe County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, Rochester had a population of 219,773. As of 2004, the population given by the U.S. Census Bureau was 212,481, making this the third largest city in New York State. Rochester is also the county seat for Monroe County.
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Rochester, also known as both The Flour City and The Flower City, is a city in Monroe County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, Rochester had a population of 219,773. As of 2004, the population given by the U.S. Census Bureau was 212,481, making this the third largest city in New York State. Rochester is also the county seat for Monroe County.
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Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse at Night
Made by snowgen
This is the Charlotte-Genesee lighthouse, at the mouth of the Genesee River near the shore of Lake Ontario, in Rochester, NY. The light was activated in 1822, making it the second oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes. The current structure was built in 1863. The light was originally on the lake's shoreline, but over time a half-mile strip of land built-up between the beach and the lighthouse. The result was a Supreme Court case when Massachusetts claimed ownership of the land. The lighthouse was deactivated in the early 1880's and is now a museum. The site also marks the site of a British raid during the War of 1812. This is the shot I've been hoping to take for a while. I finally was able to pull it off. This picture received a little post-processing (I generally don't do any other than rotation), but the color of the sky is real. It's is a combined effect of the long (30 second) exposure time and the reflection of the neon and other lights from the shore reflecting off the cloudy sky. The only tweaks were a gaussian blur to remove the graininess and air-brushing some power lines out.
14/365 January 14 - Levels
Made by Sharon Drummond
Our hotel room is on the 25th floor, which offers a fun opportunity to get some fun city shots in. I loved the tire tracks on top of the hotel parking garage, especially when paired with the curve of the nearby building. Looking at this now, I'm trying to figure out if this parking garage was one where I did a photoshoot with Rob months ago Those elevator doors look familiar. I used this image for Week 1 : After Hours on www.shuttersalt.com Places, people and certain moments become something entirely different after hours -- perhaps bustling or solemn, hopeful or crumbling. What does a place look like after the last person has left and it had revealed a new face? What is a cafe like when the chairs are placed on the tables, or a market as workers busily unload trucks and restocks shelves? Capture a place, a person, a moment at this shift in gears. Tag your photos from this assignment with shuttersaltw1 on Flickr so they'll appear on ShutterSalt. Click to see more photos from this assignment by ShutterSalt shooters.
20 Atkinson Street, Corn Hill
Made by _Yoshi_
My cousin says people in neighborhood call this house the Taj Mahal though I'm not really sure I understand why. Maybe because of it's symmetrical proportions or maybe it was built in honor some guys dead wife. The architecture appears to be in the second empire style which is an expansion on Italianate and French designs. Second Empire because at the time this style was popular it was the era of the Second French Empire. Anyways, the Taj is Mughal architecture which is made up of Indian, Persian and Islamic influences. My cousin doesn't own this house anymore. He sold it when he moved to Amsterdam. I think it was built around 1850. Edit: Found this on Second Empire Architecture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Empire
Day 01
Made by stevelosh
Done by Erik Mannhardt of Lucky Lotus Studio in Rochester, NY. About 2.5 hours to finish the linework. I go back in 2 weeks for the filling. (Update: Filling is done: ) Between the angle and the mirror the lines don't look quite straight. In reality, they are. Erik rocks. (Excuse the Myspace-style photo; all of my roommates are gone for the rest of the week.) No one managed to guess the meaning of it, so here it is: The birds represent 1's. The spaces represent 0's. The arrangement of birds on the wires (with the flying bird) is: 01001101 01001111 01010110 01000101 Which means MOVE in binary. If the flying bird flies away, it changes to: 01001100 01001111 01010110 01000101 Which translates to LOVE.
They Say It's Your Birthday
Made by the billyllama
They say it's your birthday We're gonna have a good time I'm glad it's your birthday Happy birthday to you. Yes we're going to a party party Yes we're going to a party party Yes we're going to a party party. - Paul McCartney ( selected lyrics ) Wish you could all drop by in person and celebrate with us, have some cake and He's another year older but you'll have to ask him to reveal how old he is. That would be rude of me to give that away, but since he keeps saying if I was a Spice Girl, I'd be Old Spice, he is... 1. older than the universe 2. older than methuselah 3. older than the alphabet 4. older than dinosaurs 5. all of the above 6. none of the above and just right!
Mother and Daughter
Made by J-Fish
I don't know much about swans, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying their company. This mother swan and her cygnet (the term for a baby swan) stuck close together. The mother... actually this could be the father, I don't know how to sex a swan, is not pictured but wasn't far off. Swans mate for life so hopefully the pair will have many more cygnets like this one. Also of an interesting aside I took this photo on a recently completed boardwalk over the Genesee River in Rochester NY. On the satellite image from Google you can see it's beginnings, and when I geotagged it I put it in mid water where where it's now completed. How fast things can change...
Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Bridge at Night (Rochester, NY)
Made by Gary A. Stafford
View On Black - A nighttime view of the recently constructed Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Bridge in the Corn Hill section of downtown Rochester, NY. Photographed with Canon EOS 5D and Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens, on a tripod with cable release. Image required a 20 second exposure at f13 and ISO 100. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw 4.6, with minimal post-processing in Photoshop CS3. With two light sources, I balanced the cooler, natural, evening lighting in the background, leaving the foreground awash in a yellowish glow from the the streetlights.
3.23.06 Treehouse
Made by M J M
All day it was overcast and dull, but I could see a line (possibly the end?) in the clouds to the north. As I left work, I told my boss, I'm tempted to drive up to the lake (Ontario) to see some sunshine. Sure enough, the clouds ended right at the lakeshore, and the edge was moving inland as I got there. The setting sun peeked out while I was shooting the Hojack Bridge, an abandoned rotating rail bridge, and dramatic lighting ensued. I like to think of the little control room in this structure as a treehouse, and someday, somehow, I'd like to get up there.
Bite the Dust
Made by M J M
(bigger) Building 9, Kodak Park, Rochester NY... Imploded 8:03am Saturday, June 30, 2007. Building 9 was the former home of photo paper cutting and packaging. It is one of many Kodak buildings being demolished this year, but one of only two getting the dynamite treatment! This was worth getting up at 6am on a Saturday for! I shot many more frames than this at 5fps, but these three tell the story pretty well. The dust cloud reached me in about 10 seconds and was really thick and nasty. Glad I brought a dust mask!
White Wolf
Made by penguinchris
True story - when I was five years old I was licked in the face by a wolf (not this one) in the Adirondacks because earlier in the day my nose had been bleeding. Update 10/08: If you do a google or yahoo image search for white wolf face, this photo is in the first page of results. For plain old white wolf I stopped looking after 30 pages of google results. I find that interesting because while indeed this is a photo of a white wolf face, the face that I had mentioned was mine, not the wolf's :) Also in 10/08, this is my first photo to have surpassed 2,000 views.
Waterfall Lines
Made by fallsguyd
This picture of High Falls was taken from the far end of the St. Paul St. viewing area. From over there the different tan lines really stand out better and look kind of neat. It was really exciting to watch the spikes (for lack of a better term) that would sporadically blast up from the bottom. Some of them were about 3/4's as high as the waterfall's height (96 feet). You can see one such spike a little better in the second picture below taken with a fast shutter speed, but you'd need video to really see that it's not just spray and a truly unique event.
Car crash on the inner loop near state street
Made by -dangler
Inner Loop Crash Kills Driver by R News Staff Published Dec 02, 2006 A man died after crashing his car on the Inner Loop Friday. State police say Kenneth Sedor, 35, lost control of his car as he was approaching State Street. The vehicle hit a pair of construction barrels and then struck a concrete barrier. Police say Sedor was not wearing his seatbelt and struck the windshield upon impact. He was transported to Strong Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police continue to look into what caused the crash.
lilac detail
Made by Abizeleth
A closeup from the 2006 Lilac Festival in Rochester, NY. The festival is held in Highland Park, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the same landscape architect responsible for Central Park in NYC. The park has over 500 varieties of lilacs (all in the genus Syringa, which is in the olive family). Lilacs are native to Europe and Asia, but are widely planted in gardens in the US.
homage
Made by smoocherz1
Shades of Grey: That is what moods are about for me. Love , hate, desire, greed, lust, despair, exultation, contemplation, polarization, exaggeration ....get a big cauldron, add a pinch of this, a dash of that, stir well. This can be served hot or cold, fried or boiled, maybe a touch of soul sauce for flavor and serve in generous portions. Whatever you do, do not kep it all for yourself, share your moods with the world. Description: -Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my best of 2007
it was a dark and stormy night...
Made by TW Collins
In night's impenetrable clouds, My solitary watch I keep, And listen, while the turbid deep Groans to the raging tempests, as they roll Anne Bannerman Charlotte Harbor's, West Pier, on Lake Ontario in the midst of one of her darker moods. I'm always amazed by the changes from season to season, day to day and sometimes even hour to hour. The photo below was shot just a few days earlier than this one... Happy Fence Friday - Happy Weekend!
Butterfly
Made by Blumie the Koala
Butterfly Garden at the Strong National Museum of Play (Rochester, NY). This photo is available as a postcard and on baby onesies and infant tees. My first (and so far only!) photo to make Explore!! It made it to #416 on August 4, 2007. Thanks for looking :)
Butterfly
Made by blmiers2
Butterfly This photo used here: debramoffitt.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/dance-of-the-butter... and here: www.thedphoto.com/inspiration-fix/beautiful-examples-of-b...
Space Station Lunar Transit
Made by jrlasers
International Space Station passing in front of the moon as seen from downtown Rochester, New York. Taken with an Orion XT8 Telescope, 1/640 sec. exposure. October 10, 2008 At the time of transit, 20 minutes before sunset, the ISS was at a distance of 640 miles. The High Falls laser installation at RG&E's BeeBee Station was perfectly placed within the 6-mile wide path where the transit could be captured.
6.17.06 Upstairs Downstairs
Made by M J M
The fanciest staircase in town at the George Eastman House, built in 1905 by the founder of Eastman Kodak. Note this is taken from the third floor, which is normally closed but was accessible on a special tour last weekend. BigFrank has a with the opposite perspective -- roughly from the lowest stairs. My vantage point is near the edge of the ellipse in his photo.
Chase me, mirror me
Made by King'76
I was headed for my car and just starting to put the camera in my bag, when I heard this flapping noise coming in from the North. It all went real fast: rushing back to the lake (just 10 meters), grabbing the camera, popping the hood and shooting 3 to 4 shots. The settings were still on the last shot, so not optimal for this kind of action shot. I thought they made one hell of an entrance!!!
