When I started planning my trip to New Jersey for a wedding I knew that spending time in NYC before I headed back home would be required! Thanks to my wonderful clients that gave me a place to stay for an entire week, as well as showed me how to get from their NJ home to Manhattan by train, I was able to enjoy several solid days in New York. I love travel and exploring new corners of the world and when I do personal travel I always shoot on film. Shooting film keeps me from hiding my face behind a camera all. day. long and forces me to slow down and enjoy seeing things with my own eyes as opposed to the backside of a digital camera screen. Plus, you can have all sorts of fun with double exposures and not have any clue what they’ll turn out like, as seen in the photos below that I shot at the Top of the Rock.
I really loved my time at the top of the One World Observatory, where some of these photos were shot, but my favorite stop on the trip was my last evening in NYC - the Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center. The views here were my favorite by far since you are still in the midst of all the buildings in central Manhattan. I was in New York during the (statistically) coldest week of the year so the lines were super short or non-existent just about everywhere and I jetted to the top of both towers without waiting at all. I packed in all the big touristy things - Times Square, Central Park, the Met, and Brooklyn Bridge, but my favorite photos of New York City are the shots with the views that capture the density and magnitude of Manhattan. New York was unlike anything I’ve ever seen, I felt instantly comfortable walking around and exploring, and would have happily spent many more days there immersing myself into more time exploring Central Park, more museums, and more food. I’ll be back someday soon, New York!
Images captured with a 35mm cheap Canon camera and cheap expired films like Fuji Superia, as well as my beloved Hasselblad 501C with a combination of color films and Iford HP5+ for the long exposures in Grand Central Station.
Next to wedding photography, traveling is one of my favorite things and I prefer life experiences over disposable things, so any chance for adventure is one I jump at. You can check out more of my travel adventures - always photographed on film - below!
