This picture has just pipped the other one (posted on Sunday) to become my most viewed Flickr photo of all time - thanks to the same, metronomic 35-40 views today as have been occurring for the past week.
Just wish I knew where the regular trickle of punters was coming from!
And here is the band referred to in the previous post... As you can see, they proved a big draw for the locals....
A chair. Sitting on a street. With a rude request sprayed in something or other on it. If I was more pretentious I'd claim I thought this was 'artistic' and had some kind of message. It's actually just an excuse to swear on the blog (sorry mum)
I was aiming to get the Brooklyn Bridge and Empire State Building in focus on this one, but my woefully amateurish aim resulted in my focusing on the fence railings instead. Which in hindsight, I'm very bloody happy about.
You're allowed to take photos inside the Guggenheim from ground level only. Any attempts to take a shot from the top, no matter how subtle, will be met with an embarrassing telling off by a stern, loud, but polite security guard.
Trust me on that one.
It was the annual Tartan Day parade on 5th Avenue on the Saturday of our trip. Scottishness, American-style.
It really is 'everywhere' in New York. It became a standing joke when we were there that every time we saw it, we would ask each other what it was. Funnier if you were there. Actually, probably not.
Not actually one of mine, but a Justyna special. She battled to the front of our boat to get a shot of the Statue of Liberty as we sailed back towards the bridges
Gav and Justyna, pausing to gaze in wonder at the neon blitz in Times Square. I'll never look at Piccadilly Circus quite the same way again.
Probably my favourite photo of the whole trip, if I can work out how to use Photoshop to make the blacks a bit, well, blacker.
Walking down past the New York Public Library, en route to the Empire State Building, we had to take a right onto 5th Avenue. This is one of a set of about 30 photos of the Chrysler Building taken in the space of about 5 minutes as I attempted to get one I was happy with.
It was the last.
This is our host with the most, and one of my oldest and best friends, Gav, stood in the doorway of a souvenir shop near the Empire State Building.
I don't know why I like this photo - it just looks very American to me...
Flickr have introduced a handy posting mechanism so I can add photos to the blog direct from their website. So what the hell, here's a few more of my favourites from our trip.
This is the view north from the Empire State Building. In front is the GE Building, aka '30 Rock' or 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and behind, the big dark square is Central Park.
In the space of a week, this photo, from our recent trip to New York, is about to become my most viewed on Flickr of all time.
That honour currently belongs to a pretty poor photo of Dominican college in Portstewart, taken in early 2006. But that's the weird thing. It's had 246 views in 5 years.... This one has had 178 in 5 days.
The most frustrating thing is that I can't even tell where people are clicking to it from, as Flickr can only class it as an 'unknown source'. It's something Pepsi related - close behind it in the rankings is the same sign, from the water, the following day.
Curious.
