Final Week {Favorite Image}

Hard to believe this is the final week of Photo 52: A Play on Light. It has been such an incredible journey with these women whom I now consider dear friends, studying and capturing the many facets of light in intriguing and yet very different ways. To have collaborated with such talent was truly an honor and I am thrilled to be working with them again for the next edition of Photo 52 starting in a couple of weeks.

For this final week we decided to choose our favorite image from the year. Without question my favorite is my wide angle shot of West Harlem at sunrise.

You can check out the very beginnings of the project HERE.

Week 31 - Exploring Morning Light

For the month of April our group decided to capture light at four different times a day: early morning, midday, evening and night. This first week I ventured out in my West Harlem neighborhood at 6:45 a.m. when I knew the sun would be rising up and over 145th street. This is the time of day with the least amount of traffic as well, so every time the street light turned red I would hustle out to the double yellow line and get on bended knee. I used my wide angle zoom lens in order to get as much of the setting as possible in the frame. What's not included however, is the handful of lovable lowlifes that were wrapping up their night on the streets. The funny part to me is how quiet and serene the image appears and yet, at this particular time, I was dodging the harassment of a toothless, pantless (and truly harmless) female crackhead. Oh for the love of the craft amongst New York City's colorful landscape!

Please continue along to see the rest of Photo 52's images for this week. Next up is Kelly Roth Patton of Brooklyn, New York.