I had a great last day in the city today before catching the train back to PA midday tomorrow. I don't know if the photographs will be any good - I have to start processing them before I put that critical eyepiece on and figure out whether what I have is useable. I started off by walking over to Union Square and then walking up Broadway to Central Park. The people didn't seem to be cooperating by being interesting enough, or I just wasn't adequately awake, but I wasn't feeling the street shooting. Then I walked through the Park and did some more scenic photos, some of which are probably good enough. Then around the Upper East Side a bit and then caught a subway down Lexington that tood me down to just north of Soho - I guess that'd be Noho. Walked back to Chelsea from there and, in the process, realized I'd thus far missed the biggest chunck of the best part of Greenwhich Village. Basically walked along Bleeker Street from east of NYU all the way back to where it ends at Hudson in the West Village. I'd been over he portion from Hudson to 7th about a hundred times (OK, maybe 10-15, but enough), but always continued east across 7th toward Washington Square Park, about 3-4 blocks north of Bleeker. Bleeker is AMAZING in that stretch and I was both enjoying the walk through there today immensely and kicking myself up one-side and down the other for missing this amazing area before today. Just wonderful, as cool as the West Village but seemingly a bit less over the top affluent so a bit funkier like Soho - I saw the names of some stuff I recognized (the Bitter End, Matt Uminov's guitars, etc). I wish I had a lot more time to really get to know this part of the Village. Ahhh, a reason to come back NEXT year!
I'll likely process this last batch of photos in the next couple of days and put some up here. Then I'll let this thread die. I may put together a book from this month, or not - I'll have to see what my motivation is like. I'll keep folks informed but I won't be wearing you out with 8-10 images every day anymore, except whatever I come up with from today's shooting.
I appreciate all of the nice comments, here and on Flickr. I know I put up a lot of images here. To the extent that it was just too much and you had to skip many or most, I fully understand. To the extent some of you enjoyed some of them, I'm glad for that. I've had an amazing month and have enjoyed pretty much every minute of it immensely. I hope to be able to do it again someday, whether here in NYC or in some other great city...
-Ray