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New Yorkers (and a few tourists) queue up at a crosswalk in Manhattan.
After promising New York street photography for the past few days — and then sharing cool mountain images instead — here’s a photograph from our recent, late-August visit to Manhattan. (This was the same trip that eventually took us up to Vermont woods. ) Our previous New York City visit was last winter, when the city was in the throes of a very bad peak in the covid epidemic. At that time the whole place seemed almost oppressive. This trip felt different — more like the New York we remember from the before times. It is still not back to normal, but we were able to get out and walk a lot and the sense of dread that was in the air last winter was gone.
I’m fascinated by almost everything visual in Manhattan — the crowds, individuals, the architecture, the urban landscape, and more. I almost always walk around with a camera handy and often keep it literally in hand. That was the case as we walked through a busier section of town and I photographed this group of people queued up at the crosswalk. A closer look reveals quite a variety of people and appearances — there’s a shirtless guy int he crosswalk at left, the anxious people trying to get a head start on crossing the street, the woman near the left with the 1000 mile stare, one guy with a mask on, and more.
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