An Urban View: Post-Modern City Life
Welcome to An Urban View, the Urban View Photo™ Blog devoted to the Great American City!
Here you will find scenes from the urban landscape: images depicting Man's struggle against the environment as expressed in modern, industrialized society (i.e. the built environment). These illustrations range from vibrant, pleasant cityscapes to bleak, gritty, often surreal portraits of urban decay; whose ultimate goal is to accurately reflect and forever preserve the frantic, mechanized pace of city life at a moment in time. Sweeping twilight urban vistas, large brooding structures, huge powerful intricate machinery or abandoned warehouses - in short, urban industrial images.
Abandonment
March 03, 2013
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This particular warehouse has been deserted for as long as I've been driving down Elizabeth Avenue. I've probably passed this specific site at least a dozen times, but today it caught my eye. Making a mental note to come back, I took this photograph late in the afternoon when the shadows are longer and the sunlight is less harsh. The graffiti, spli...
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The Rails Beckon
February 24, 2013
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A universal trait among photographers is the ability to "see" beyond the mundane as a scene unfolds before them. It could be light glinting off a shiny surface, or shadows falling on an object, or, as in this case, leading lines and perspective.
Whatever it is, something catches our eye and we are compelled to record that moment in time.
So...
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2 Guys Photo Blog
February 23, 2013
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Thoughts and opinions, resources and experiences… for emerging photographers everywhere.
This is the opening image and caption on the 2 Guys Photo blog. Run by Rey and Ed Spadoni, this is one of my favorite blog sites. Not only do they render interesting and compelling images - with commentary (i.e. the stories behind the pictures) - on a daily ba...
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RWJ Children's Hospital
February 09, 2013
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While driving by from work the other day, I decided to take advantage of the beautiful twilight and capture some images of the Children's Hospital wing at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center.
The facility is located at the corner of French and Patterson streets, across from the Clinical Academic Building at 125 Patterson in New Brunswick, NJ....
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