Manhattanhenge! (Or Manhattanhedge)
First, this has nothing to do with small things. As many of you know, I am a huge fan of the phenomenon called “manhattanhenge”, or as some game show hosts will call it, Manhattanhedge (more on this later). It’s when the sun sets directly in line with the grid pattern in Manhattan, and it’s gotten enough press lately that the corner of Park and 34th was swarming with amateur astronomers and sun worshipers. Well, actually, bloggers and photographers. Every time the light turned red, they’d put themselves in jeopardy by running into the intersection to snap some shots.
I went one step further, I hope, by taking several bracketed shots and combining them into an HDR image. The best is above. I took a few other shots as well, below. The last one is just a standard photo.
There’s more pictures at Wacky Neighbor, from 2004. (when the sun was even better)
