Completed in 2007, the New York Times building in the Times Square area of New York is 52 floors tall and 1,142 feet tall including the antenna…
The building is shrouded in distinctive horizontal ceramic rods on all sides except for the North side, which help to keep the building cool during the summer months but also let as much natural light in as possible.
It was also these rods that made it easier for Alain Robert to climb up to the roof of the building on the outside, during the summer of 2008 (June 5th).
For this photo (also included in the ‘Manhattan – A Closer Look‘ series), I started out at street level, looking for a decent angle. After a while I realised that I’d prefer to be more level with the wording on the building. Handily, there’s the gigantic Port Authority bus station opposite, with some handy outdoor car parks to shoot from (via some trial-and-error elevators). With the elevated position across the road, I snagged the shot above, again using the tilt function on the tilt-shift lens to narrow down the area of focus – this time it had the added effect of making the rods look further apart in this particular part of focus – sharper rods meant more ‘gap’ between them, while the others blurred into almost solid white.
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
1/640 sec at f/2.8
ISO 200
45mm (Tilt shift)
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