This week’s photos, courtesy of David Tan, show Bay Ridge apartment buildings from two interesting angles, illustrating both stretching shadows and a lonely-looking lamp.
They were taken on January 19, 2013.
To see more of David’s canny camera work, please visit his blog at dtanlog.blogspot.com.
This week’s photo, courtesy of David Tan, shows a large rock in the Japanese garden section of the Narrows Botanical Garden, with a spindly winter tree peeking out [or possibly photobombing?] over a bamboo fence.
It was taken on January 19, 2013.
To see more of David’s spellbinding snapshots, please visit his blog at dtanlog.blogspot.com.
The accompanying photos were taken by Bath Beach shutterbug David Tan back in November – weeks before the holiday season got into full gear and people got wrapped up in the promise of a new year.
One features some fall foliage, while the other shows the importance of finding your niche.
They were both taken on November 23, 2012.
To see more of David’s cyclical snapshots, please visit his blog at dtanlog.blogspot.com.
When I first saw this photo – by the talented Mr. David Tan – and realized that it may be the single most attractive underside of a highway overpass ever seen, I imagined some rusticated voice chime in, “Best damn ramp in the state! Uh huh…”
I believe this little park/playground area, lying underneath the ramp connecting the Verrazano Bridge/Gowanus Expressway to the Belt Parkway, also made a brief cameo in the film Saturday Night Fever.
It was taken on December 15, 2012.
To gaze at more of David’s noteworthy negatives, please visit his blog at dtanlog.blogspot.com.
The accompanying images, courtesy of the one and only David Tan, show some festive Christmas lights in front of a Dyker Heights home.
Both were taken on December 22, 2012.
To access more of David’s penetrating prints, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com.
Whoever had the foresight to lift one of these “No Parking” signs for the cancelled 2012 NYC Marathon may eventually have a collectors item on their hands.
This photo, which once again comes courtesy of David Tan, was taken along the race’s planned route in Bay Ridge on November 3, 2012.
To see more of David’s illustrious images, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com.
The above image shows Southwest Brooklyn’s answer to Stonehenge, as stacked rubble from Hurricane Sandy does a balancing act on the Shore Parkway Promenade, with Fort Hamilton’s VA Hospital in the background.
This photo was taken by Bath Beach shutterbug David Tan, on October 31, 2012. To see more of David’s fancy film work, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com.
In this week’s photo, which once again comes courtesy of photographer David Tan, an owl statue watches over Owl’s Head Park, while seeming to seek out a different pickup basketball game to play in.
It was taken October 13, 2012.
To see more of David’s fascinating photographs, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com.
If you have a photo you’d like us to publish as part of the Seen In Bay Ridge photo series, please send it to info@bayridgeodyssey.com. Be sure to let us know where and when the picture was taken, as well as how to credit the image (i.e. by your real name, pen name, anonymously, etc.).
The accompanying image, courtesy of roving Bath Beach shutterbug David Tan, shows a fully-suited bee keeper looking a bit like Neil Armstrong [RIP] as he prepares to harvest some honey at the Narrows Botanical Garden.
It was taken on October 13, 2012.
To see more of David’s extraordinary exposures, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com.
If you have a photo you’d like us to publish as part of the Seen In Bay Ridge photo series, please send it to info@bayridgeodyssey.com. Be sure to let us know where and when the picture was taken, as well as how to credit the image (i.e. by your real name, pen name, anonymously, etc.).
Even in our increasingly digitized world, old Gutenberg and Bi Sheng would probably be pleased that so many readers still prefer words printed on paper rather than displayed on a glowing screen.
The accompanying image, captured by Bath Beach photographer David Tan, shows a store on the corner of 4th Avenue and 92nd Street over which the written word still rules.
The photo was appropriately taken using good old-fashioned Fuji Superia 200 film on October 8, 2012.
To see more of David’s handsome halftones, please visit his blog at dtan.blogspot.com.
If you have a photo you’d like us to publish as part of the Seen In Bay Ridge photo series, please send it to info@bayridgeodyssey.com. Be sure to let us know where and when the picture was taken, as well as how to credit the image (i.e. by your real name, pen name, anonymously, etc.).