Persongalleriet #751: Live blog from NYC: Day 2

Wednesday, November 1st 2017.
Day 2 became a full day, although much shorter than day 1. It included a seven hour photo walk that took me through midtown Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, crossing the East River on the Manhattan Bridge to Chinatown and onwards to Little Italy and Soho. I also had the pleasure to meet and have dinner with my wonderful hosts Michael and Francisco in their beautiful home on the Upper West Side! A great day!

On 34th street.

Downtown Brooklyn. 2 Crutches, 2 Sodas.

Day After Halloween.

New York Love Letter. Manhattan Bridge.

Chinatown.

Be well, everybody!

/Niklas

Persongalleriet #750: Live blog from NYC: Halloween

I flew three flights, Umeå-Stockholm, Stockholm-Oslo and then the long one: Oslo-New York for a total travel time of almost 16 hours. But I had a couple of hours sleep on the plane, so I went ahead with my plan to do a photo-walk in the area of the New York Halloween parade. I managed four hours, before succumbing to my tiredness, didn't see the actual parade. I was sad to hear about the terror attack that had happened during my walk, but unknown to me until I got back to my room and turned on facebook.
Here are three quick photos from yesterday.

Be well everybody!

/Niklas

Persongalleriet #749: Nick Cave and Notting Hill Carnival, part 3

Yesterday, me and Sam, my youngest son, went down to Stockholm to see and listen to Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Didn't bring a camera to Stockholm and not even the phone into Stockholm Globe Arena, where the concert was. I wanted to concentrate on the show and we were far away from the stage anyway.
What a show!!! So so powerful: heavy rocking songs, meganoise, soft piano playing in a great dynamic mix. Sometimes even all of these elements in just one song.
To compensate for the lack of freshly shot photos a bit, here are links to the blog posts I wrote after we saw this band in the US back in 2014. A different experience completely, since we stood right in front of the stage. Post 1 in B&W and post 2 in colour.

Well, this is a photo blog after all, so I'll show some more photos from Notting Hill Carnival also!  :-)

A lot of green colour in this carnival, in a show of respect for the Grenfell tower victims and their families.

Be well, everybody!

/Niklas

Persongalleriet #748: Notting Hill Carnival, part 2

Colourful as this day was, I still choose black and white sometimes during post processing. I normally just try both colour and B&W for a photo and go with what I like the most.
So, here are some monochrome street shots from August 27th, Carnival Sunday!

Be well, everybody!

/Niklas

Persongalleriet #747: The Ultimate Guide to the Carnival

För några dagar sedan blev ett av mina blogginlägg med gatufoto från Umeå uppmärksammat av fotosidans redaktion i form av en blänkare på förstasidan. Riktigt kul, tycker jag! Och lite oväntat, eftersom jag bloggat väldigt lite på senare tid.
"Man behöver inte åka till Stockholm, London eller New York för att ta bra gatufoton. Niklas Lindskog visar i ett blogginlägg en rad fina nytagna bilder från Umeå." stod det i texten.
Men faktum är att de allra flesta av mina blogginlägg innehåller gatufoto från någon av alla mina resor!  Och på onsdag-torsdag åker jag faktiskt en sväng till Stockholm. Det blir dock inget gatufoto den här gången, jag ska se Nick Cave i Globen i sällskap med min son Sam. Och i slutet av månaden åker jag till New York, just för att gatufota. Min senaste resa gick dessutom till London, så redaktörens pricksäkerhet var total!  :-)
Detta blogginlägg inleder en rapport från augustiresan till London, där jag träffade flera goda fotovänner, både nya och gamla och besökte London Street Photography Festival. En av dagarna blev det gatufoto på Notting Hill Carnival. Högljutt, färglatt och trångt och många möjligheter till närgånget gatufoto.

Inspirationsbild för dagens bloggtitel!

Fortsättning följer...

Ha det gott, alla!

/Niklas