Photo Album
New York, New York!
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Mike,
I just wanted to let you know that I have/am
thoroughly enjoying 'travelling with you' around the UK and N.America in
your pictures... I was actually looking images of for 'Ro-Wen' in
N.Wales, (where I spent a good deal of my youth) and just couldn't stop
after that - I am currently with you in the Grand Canyon!
Mike, I am originally from Manchester, but
as I said spent time in Conwy and Ro-wen - I still speak a little Welsh,
but my vocabulary hs faded somewhat - I have been in Canada for the last
20 Years.
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Terry Bennett |
| Hi there, mr.Baker! My name is Grigor,and
I'm a student from Bulgaria! I am very happy, there are people, who share
their photos with others without any 'taxes' and stuff! New York is one
fantastic city, amazing place! There are other places in the world so nice
as NY,and if people do not share their memories we'll never see them. It's
easy to say "Me" and never do nothing for others! It'S easy always to take
without giving! That's why I thank you so much for that beautiful photos,
and I wish for both of us some day to breath in NY again!
Best regards! |
Grigor |
Thanks for the
wonderful pictures, I googled for New York and found your amazing shots,
I also looked at your pictures of Tuscany – quite wonderful. I have
visited NYC several times and I get homesick for it
J so seeing your
picture brought back a lot of good memories and made my day.Thanks
again
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Alastair |
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I came across your site from a site
(Beaupré Mansion) that my daughter sent me. Her husband is from Barry
Wales. My daughter is from the USA as we are. They lived in the US for
almost 20 yrs and just moved back this past April to live. I miss her
terribly but know she loves it there. Everyday she is emailing me new
places to visit. I really enjoyed all of your GREAT pics of New York
City. Haven't checked the other ones yet......but will definitely come
back. Thanks for sharing them. I know it takes loads of time to have a
great web site as yours. Thanks again. Someday we hope to visit your
beautiful area.
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Mary B from Alabama USA |
| I just wanted to compliment you on your
amazing website. I live in New York City and was astounded with the
pictures you took. I never knew that there were bike tours of New York
City -- I may take a tour when the weather gets warmer. How did you get
started in photography? |
Mark, USA |
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I really enjoyed all of your GREAT pics
of New York City. Haven't checked the other ones yet......but will
definitely come back. Thanks for sharing them. I know it takes loads of
time to have a great web site as yours. Thanks again.
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Mary B from Alabama USA |
| I LOVE the photo's of New York.... they are
superb. I always knew it was a big place, but they really capture how vast
it is.... it's unbelievable! |
Louise (Cardiff) |
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Just checked your New York site as I am
going there in Jan-Feb 2003 excellent, the best photos I have seen, well
done!
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Jan (UK) |
| Just dropped by and saw some
of your lovely photographs. I particularly liked the NY shots, having
visited that wonderful island of Manhattan twice in recent years (one of
mine attached). |
Simon (UK) |
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Your pic of the advertising hording, Times
Sq: would that shot, by any chance, have been taken from the Millenium
Broadway Hotel?
It's just that I was there Christmas 2004
and that hording, from that perspective, looks familiar.
It's good to see how and that you got
yourself about the town. You must have enjoyed it.
Happy life.
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JJJ
Liverpool UK
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Hy
when I was looking for pictures of Ny on the
internet I found your site,
wow what a beautiful pictures, my compliments,
really beautiful.
Greetings from Holland
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Michael Kroegman |
| It took just 57 years, 11 months and a week for me to get my
first opportunity to visit the Big Apple. I was on my way to do a 'recce' for
BBC Wales for a programme that we hoped to make in Manhattan with Wynford Jones, one
of BBC Wales's News and Current Affairs Programme Directors with whom I work
often on Pawb A I Farn.
We had a 'Hit list' of four studio centres to see and check out in a
day. This we did, and there was a little time left for a spot of 'turbo'
tourism. The results are below... |
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Saturday morning found me on a flight link bus
from Cardiff to terminal 4 Heathrow to catch a B.A. Jumbo to New York. |
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Some twenty minutes after leaving Heathrow,
we were crossing Cardigan Bay at some 30,000 feet. I had been in the Lleyn
Peninsula (under cloud towards top of frame) just a few days
previously. |
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A meal, two films and a short sleep later we
were over Long island about to descend to JFK airport. |
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On our final approach with the sun about to
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Our Hotel (Best Western Manhattan) was very
close to the Empire State building, the upper part of which seen here on
my 'try and keep awake' walkabout. |
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This French lady needs no introduction. She
was a gift to New York from France. Seen from the Staten Island Ferry
which is one of New York's best freebies. |
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This was my bedside lamp in the hotel! How
corny can you get? |
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Shopping Freaks will all head for fifth
Avenue. Avenues run north to south, streets run east to west. Delightfully
simple, but I still got lost! |
Grand Central Station is just amazing, this
roof has all the well known star constellations built into the ceiling.
They all light up, but are all the mirror image of how they appear to the
earth dweller. There is a story behind that.... |
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This was one of the saddest sights I saw in
the Big Apple; Display boards in a lobby of Grand Central Station have
pictures and names of the lost and loved ones who perished in the twin
towers disaster of September 11th 2001 |
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Every time I saw one of these fire tenders, I
was reminded of 9/11. Each man must have known a victim. |
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The old, classic yellow cabs have all gone,
but their modern successors cruise the uneven streets of Manhattan. |
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This is Bryant Park where one David Blaine,
illusionist of this planet, stood for 36 hours atop this tiny platform
before jumping 12 stories onto a pile of cardboard boxes. Publicity he
acquired worldwide. His last stunt was being encased in ice for days..... |
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he came to London and sat in a clear Perspex box hung by a crane near
Tower Bridge whilst he went on a one man famine for a few weeks. |
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Macey's store, the biggest department store
in the world on your left, Empire state building dead centre. |
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Wynford and I sampled a typical New York deli
on our last lunchtime together. Just take what you want, have it weighed,
and pay by weight! Nice one! |
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On a subsequent night, I took this picture
from the roof bar of the hotel using a long exposure; some 3 seconds.
tricky without a tripod!
The picture has proved popular with
somebody as it has appeared in the background of a certain Rap artists
page somewhere in the US of A. |
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On the following morning, I was in the queue
at 9 a.m. along with about 60 others to ascend the grand old lady, once
again the tallest building in New York. This is a close up of the top from
the observation gallery on the 86th floor. Yes, the 86th floor. The first
lift takes just 50 seconds to ascend 80 floors. |
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A self portrait (by a kind passer by) of moi
with a lot of Manhattan behind. This, the 86th floor observation platform
of the Empire State Building. Each year they have a race on foot to get to
the top. The record is held by an Australian who runs up the 86 floors in
less than ten minutes! |
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I thought Central Park was absolutely super.
Better than London Parks with more relief and lots of different
atmospheric corners. Here, a musical entertainer played to New Yorkers
just sitting on the grass listening to early Bob Dylan music. |
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A not very well framed self portrait taking
lunch in the Seaport area alongside Brooklyn Bridge, just around the
corner from Battery island and the site of the former World Trade centre.
A nice Pizza and two glasses of white wine sitting in the sunshine..... |
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Take the free Staten Island Ferry to get the
best views of Manhattan. |
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Work completed, it was time to return home.
Here we are queuing for take off at JFK airport with Manhattan in the
background. |
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400 seats, 400 screens to watch movies on.
400 tons of Jumbo flying at 575 miles per hour burning 2500 gallons of
fuel per hour; all too much for my little brain to take in! |
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Quite early one morning as we approached the
North Cornish Coast. Just six hours for 3500 miles (with a tail
wind).
It takes me four hours to drive from North Wales to
South Wales.
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