This is another wide photo showing a mass of skyscrapers in New York. However this was taken many years ago on my old compact digital camera. You can just make out a dark areas void of skyscrapers in the middle, background which is the massive Central Park. As you can tell from the title this photo was taken from the viewing floor of the world famous Empire State Building. To get a better view of Central Park I recommend the Rockafeller Centre. They have really cool lifts (or elevators), sadly I only went up there at night, so didn’t get any really good images to share. Just another excuse to one day return to the Big Apple (as if I needed anymore reasons to justify another trip over the pond!)

I have been to this famous art gallery twice now and both times it left me with the same impression. The Guggenheim in New York is an amazing building, the main hall pictured here looking up at the ceiling is really impressive. However, the artwork displayed on my two visits just wasn’t as good as I was expecting or hoping for. The Museum of Modern Art was much more interesting in my opinion, but from a photographic point of view this building has to be seen to be believed!

Every year thousands of tourists take the lift (or elevator) up to the observation deck to look down on the city of New York below. I have taken dozens of photos looking in every direction, but I think few would ever think to look up and photograph this. I can only imagine what it would be like to get an opportunity to go right to the top of the mast.

I am continually amazed by the things that can be done in post processing software such as Photoshop and Lightroom. Even with the above jpeg image taken five years ago on a compact digital camera. The original to the above image was very grey and washed out, almost completely void of colour. Now the statue has it’s famous green colour back and almost looks 3D, something that even two or three years ago would have been almost impossible to achieve.