"Homage to Manhatta"

Every job I have ever had, has never offered vantage points to view the city much differently than ground level. It wasn't until I accepted a position in a company that was located in the upper floors of a huge building in the financial district that I began to view things anew. What was more intriguing than the view, was watching the ever changing play of light and shadow on the urban landscape through the day and the seasons. This series took further meaning when the company I work for, moved uptown into a famous iconic building. I am now more than twenty floors up, looking out on views and watching light that I have never experienced from street level. The work I mostly concentrate on is at street level, where I document closeup interactions with people using a wide angle lens. This new view has me as a witness to atmosphere, light, shadow, across the geometry of the urban landscape that I have only dreamt about. I now utilize a long telephoto lens to compress space. To pick out slices of geometry mixed with atmospheric haze and light. In this "Homage to Manhatta", inspired by the film of Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, I let myself not be bound by the technical qualities of optics. I let the distortion and sometime blurring of old windows interject into my feelings on these views.