File:Happy man in a rainy day.jpg
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This man was crossing from the south side of 96th Street to the north side, on the west side of Broadway. He was grinning and smiling to himself all the way across -- not listening to music, not talking with anyone else, just enjoying his own private joke or moment of happiness... Note: this photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Dec 2009) Squidoo blog titled "Happy News, Happy Stories & Happy People." Months from now, if people stumble onto this set of Flickr photos, they won't know or care when the photos were actually taken. After all, rain is a fairly universal phenomenon, and it can happen in any of the four seasons of the year. Still, it's an odd experience to be writing these notes a week after the photographs were taken -- at an altitude of 35,000 feet, on a flight to Miami that lifted off from JFK airport just as the first snow flurries hit the runway at the beginning of what promises to be the first major snowfall of the 2009 season. Twelve inches of snow are expected by the time the storm stops, which makes this collection of water-soaked individuals seem like they got stuck in the wrong place and the wrong time. But a week ago, the temperature was about ten degrees warmer -- and what could easily have been a foot or two of snow was instead just a couple of inches of cold rain. Rain, of course, brings out the umbrellas; and on a couple of earlier occasions this year (which you can see here and here on Flickr), I began to see that -- notwithstanding the typical stories about New York fashions -- people were not restricting themselves to black raincoats and black umbrellas. My winter coat (courtesy of North Face) is black, and just about every umbrella I've ever owned has been black; my suitcases are black, my backpacks and briefcases have always been black, and even my camera bag is black. Since it's promising to be a cold winter, I just bought a new pair of gloves and a new woolen cap ... in black. But that's apparently not true for many other New Yorkers. While you'll see a few black outfits in the photos collected here, the range of vivid colors continues to surprise me. Somehow, it's something you would expect to see at the beginning of the spring season -- signifying the rejection of the dark gloom of clouds and rain, and celebrating the imminent arrival of flowers and blossoms, of emerald-colored trees and thick green grass and the chirping of birds. But this collection of photos was taken in mid-December, only a week before the official beginning of winter. You'd think that people would be carrying black umbrellas and somber raincoats that marked the season of death and darkness, but I guess that's just not the way things are here in New York City. On the previous occasions when I've photographed umbrellas in the rain, I've deliberately used a "pocket camera," albeit a fairly sophisticated one such as the Canon G-10. I wanted something that would be compact enough that I could stick into my jacket pocket if the rain got heavy, and I didn't want to risk damaging the electronic components a really expensive, sophisticated camera by getting it wet. The results were usually fairly good, but I always wondered if I could do a better job with one of my high-end DSLR cameras... ... so that's what I used for this collection of photos: my Nikon D700 camera, with a big, heavy 70-300mm zoom lens. I attached a lens hood to the lens, to minimize the chances of raindrops falling directly onto the lens itself; and I stood beneath the awning and overhang of various storefronts and buildings along Broadway as the rain poured down steadily all around me. Next time, I might be even more adventurous, since I've got a professional waterproof bag-thingy that should keep the camera dry even if I'm standing out in the middle of a torrential downpour. But for now, this was a good start. Because of the rain, most of the people I photographed paid no attention to me at all; they were too busy concentrating on where they were walking, where the puddles were deepest, and whose umbrellas were about to poke them in the face. On the rare occasions when they did see a crazy guy standing under an awning, pointing a camera in their general direction, they frowned or gave me a quizzical look, and just kept going... So that's the way it was, on this rainy Sunday afternoon. At this point, I'm going to assume that winter has officially arrived, and that the precipitation during the next few months will take the form of snow, not rain. I don't know how well it will turn out, but one of my future projects will be a series of photos during a blizzard. Stay tuned ... and in the meantime, stay dry. |
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Source | You'd smile, too, if you just got a job after being unemployed for the last six months! |
Author | Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA |
Camera location | 40° 47′ 41.09″ N, 73° 58′ 19.04″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 40.794748; -73.971955 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Ed Yourdon at https://www.flickr.com/photos/72098626@N00/4213727760. It was reviewed on 23 June 2010 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
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Camera model | NIKON D700 |
Exposure time | 1/250 sec (0.004) |
F-number | f/8 |
ISO speed rating | 3,200 |
Date and time of data generation | 12:31, 13 December 2009 |
Lens focal length | 230 mm |
Pixel composition | Color Filter Array |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Software used | Ver.1.01 |
File change date and time | 12:31, 13 December 2009 |
Exposure Program | Normal program |
Date and time of digitizing | 12:31, 13 December 2009 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4.9 APEX (f/5.46) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire |
DateTime subseconds | 71 |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 71 |
DateTimeDigitized subseconds | 71 |
Color space | sRGB |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 230 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Subject distance range | Unknown |
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- Male humans with umbrellas
- People holding umbrellas in New York City
- People in the rain
- 96th Street (Manhattan)
- Men smiling while standing
- Walking men in New York City
- Men walking
- Happiness
- People with red umbrellas
- Down jackets
- Folding umbrellas
- December 2009 in Manhattan, New York City
- Walking people in the United States
- Men wearing blue jeans in New York (state)