Life Is A Blur-The rush, the hustle, the bustle we seldom see.
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Beach Buddy Night
Friends sit quietly listening to the gentle rhythm of ocean waves washing ashore on the moonlit beach in largest city in the world—Honolulu.
Yes, Honolulu is the largest city in the world—in size, not population. The Hawaii State constitution stipulates any island or islet not belonging to a county belongs to Honolulu. The result is all islands within the Hawaiian Archipelago, which stretches to Midway Island are in the Honolulu City limits making Honolulu’s City border approximately 1,500 miles long. The 48 continental United States is 2,680 miles wide.
Hawaii also is home to the tallest mountain on earth. Mauna Kea, located on the island of Hawaii, is a dormant volcano which last erupted in 2460 BC. What makes it the tallest mountain? Mauna Kea rises 13,796 feet above sea level, but extends an additional 19,680 below the surface to the ocean floor making it the tallest in the world at 33,476 feet—4,441 feet higher than Mount Everest.BeachBuddyNightGary Rickettsgrickettsgricketts.comPhotography by Gary RickettsHawaiiOceanBoatFine Art PhotographyBlack and WhiteBWStreet PhotographyUniqueinterior designWall Arthttpsphotographybygaryricketts.comSmugmugManhattanNew YorkNew York CityNYnyc
Standing Still
New York City’s famous street, Broadway, is associated with live theater and Times Square, but Broadway is also one of the world’s longest streets. It originates in Lower Manhattan at Bowling Green Park and ends in Albany, New York, a distance of 150 miles. Bowling Green Park is believed to be the location where Native Americans held council and where Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from them.
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Lonely Street
The subterranean steam system, operated by Con Edison, is the largest steam district in the world, flowing through 105 miles of underground mains. 100,000 buildings, all in Manhattan, use steam for heating and cooling.
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Nightly Throng
On May 14, 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower broke ground for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts became a reality in September, 1962 when the first of its performing spaces, Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall), was inaugurated with a concert of music by Vaughan Williams and Mahler (among others) played by the New York Philharmonic conducted by its Music Director of the time, Leonard Bernstein.NightlyThrongGary Rickettsgrickettsgricketts.comPhotography by Gary RickettsManhattanNew YorkNew York CityStreet SceneLincoln CenterNightBWFine Art PhotographyUniquenyccrowdStreet PhotographyBlack and Whiteinterior designWall Arthttpsphotographybygaryricketts.comSmugmugNY
Illuminated
The Bethesda Terrace Arcade is the underground passageway to and from Central Park's Bethesda Terrace. The main feature of the Arcade is the Minton tile Ceiling. It is the only known example of Minton encaustic ceramic tiles used in a suspended ceiling.
The Arcade was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. The ceiling is made up of 15,876 elaborately pattered encaustic tiles, which were handmade by Minton and Company—a leading 19th century manufacturer in Stokes-on-Trent, England.
Completed in 1869, the Arcade was completely restored in early 2007. In January 2009, four vandals were caught defacing the restored Arcade with spray paint graffiti requiring a reported $100,000 to repair the damageIlluminatedGary Rickettsgrickettsgricketts.comPhotography by Gary RickettsNew York CityNew YorkManhattanCentral ParkFine Art PhotographyBlack and WhiteBWStreet PhotographyUniquenycinterior designWall Arthttpsphotographybygaryricketts.comSmugmugNY
Ghost at the Crosswalk
Everywhere Broadway crosses an avenue is a park created by the triangle or square space as a result of the crossing. The only exception is where Broadway crosses 5th avenue at 23rd street–the famous flatiron building takes up the space.
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Rush Rush
New Yorkers walk faster and farther than any where else. New Yorkers walk an average two to five miles per day.
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Gāst
Without anyone paying attention, a white clad protester walks through the crowd.
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Without Faces
Dose she see the blur or the person?
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Am I Alone?
A lone individual barely moves, as others rush on way to…
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