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  • New York Chrysler building in the evening with Grand Central Station.
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  • New York Chrysler building in the evening with Grand Central Station.
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  • Photography is usually one of the professions where, if you do a bad job nobody dies but when I photographed the Chrysler Building there was every chance that if we messed up – statistically someone was going to get hurt.  We fabricated a scaffold with adjustable platforms to mount four motorized Hasselblad cameras and hang it over the edge of the Chrysler Building to get this viewpoint. One of my assistants, a bit of an electronics buff wired all the cameras to a single switching box so I could fire them all with one button. It so happened that the previous tenants had vacated the week before so we had the whole wing of the floor to ourselves.  We strung climbing rope through the windows and around the building as a main lifeline and clipped ourselves onto the line with harnesses.  The whole heavy contraption was lowered and raised about thirty times over rush hour pedestrian traffic some 57 stories above Lexington Avenue as we changed film backs and adjusted exposures and made slight adjustments in camera angles.  Even though we were all roped and harnessed in, if anything fell, say a film back or film slide and hit someone it would have been a disaster.<br />
We photographed the building over several days during a couple of sunsets and sunrises, even at different times of year but the best shot was taken the first day.  It was one of those miraculously rare clear days when the pollution was blown out to sea leaving metropolis looking like it just got out of the bath.  I used Tungsten film to accentuate the blues of magic hour when two divergent spectrums of light, blues and reds, coverag
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  • Chrysler Building during the day.
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building with Grand Central Station.
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  • Setting up Chrysler Building photograph called The Guardian.
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  • Chrysler Building with Grand Central Station.
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building during the day.
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian.  Dusk on New York City.
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Chrysler Building, the Guardian
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  • Evening Sky with Pink Clouds.
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  • An evening sky is filled with clouds of pink and blue hues.
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  • An evening sky is filled with clouds of pink and blue hues.
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  • An evening sky full of red and purple clouds.
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  • An evening sky with red clouds.
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  • An evening sky full of red and purple clouds.
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  • An evening sky with red clouds.
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  • An evening sky full of red and purple clouds.
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  • An evening sky is filled with clouds of pink and blue hues.
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  • An evening sky full of pink and purple clouds.
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  • Two guys on sand dunes at the Fifth Annual star Pary in White Sands National Monument.  Man in foreground with the cowboy hat is John Cornicelli who works at the solar observatory at Holloman A.F.B.  He watches for solar flares for work by day, solar flares impact telecommunications, satellite transmission, power grids etc…., watches the stars by night for fun.  It is important for amateurs that work with mobile set-ups to spot early in the day so that when evening falls they aren’t floundering with the alignment of their spotting scopes and telescopes.  These photographs on the dunes of the two stargazers John and Mark were made at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, Although the park normally closes in the evening, it was left open for two evenings for the event.  One night was open to the public and several hundred locals from around the state attended.<br />
Home phone: 505 479-9918<br />
Work phone: 505-572 -461<br />
email:  john.cornicellie@holloman.af.mil<br />
Man in background of same shot is Mark Bibeault from Espanola N.M..  P.O. Box 3502<br />
Fairview, N.M. 87533 stargazer@la-tierra.com
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  • Eiffel Tower in evening with people walking underneath.
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  • Eiffel Tower in evening with people walking underneath.
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  • The crossing from the Canaries to Antigua took nine days on Hyperion's maiden voyage.  This photo shows Hyperion under sail at dusk one evening.
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  • Eiffel Tower in evening with people walking underneath.
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  • Eiffel Tower in evening with people walking underneath.
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  • The crossing from the Canaries to Antigua took nine days on Hyperion's maiden voyage.  This photo shows Hyperion under sail at dusk one evening.
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  • A practitioner of Tai Chi does a morning workout on a rock on Elephant Mountain above Taipei.  Tai Chi is a common mental and physical art that is openly seen around the city beginning around sunrise.  The man's workout is so common that it would not even draw stares from local hikers.
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  • All over the town of Drumheller, Canada dinosaur pop culture abounds, even at the rodeo grounds.
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  • A practitioner of Tai Chi does a morning workout on a rock on Elephant Mountain above Taipei.  Tai Chi is a common mental and physical art that is openly seen around the city beginning around sunrise.  The man's workout is so common that it would not even draw stares from local hikers.
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  • A practitioner of Tai Chi does a morning workout on a rock on Elephant Mountain above Taipei.  Tai Chi is a common mental and physical art that is openly seen around the city beginning around sunrise.  The man's workout is so common that it would not even draw stares from local hikers.
    taipei0036 elephant mt taichi.jpg
  • A practitioner of Tai Chi does a morning workout on a rock on Elephant Mountain above Taipei.  Tai Chi is a common mental and physical art that is openly seen around the city beginning around sunrise.  The man's workout is so common that it would not even draw stares from local hikers.
    Taipei0037a elephant taichi.jpg
  • A researcher at the Mongolian State Museum in Ulan Bator assembles the remains of an ankylosaur discovered in the Gobi Desert.  The heavy body armor and masive tail clubs of these creatures made them a formidable opponent for even the largest of predators.
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  • A practitioner of Tai Chi does a morning workout on a rock on Elephant Mountain above Taipei.  Tai Chi is a common mental and physical art that is openly seen around the city beginning around sunrise.  The man's workout is so common that it would not even draw stares from local hikers.
    scf4399-014_taipei0033 elephant mt t...jpg
  • A practitioner of Tai Chi does a morning workout on a rock on Elephant Mountain above Taipei.  Tai Chi is a common mental and physical art that is openly seen around the city beginning around sunrise.  The man's workout is so common that it would not even draw stares from local hikers.
    taipei0035 elephant mt taichi.jpg
  • A practitioner of Tai Chi does a morning workout on a rock on Elephant Mountain above Taipei.  Tai Chi is a common mental and physical art that is openly seen around the city beginning around sunrise.  The man's workout is so common that it would not even draw stares from local hikers.
    scf4327-872-taipei0037a rescan.jpg
  • A practitioner of Tai Chi does a morning workout on a rock on Elephant Mountain above Taipei.  Tai Chi is a common mental and physical art that is openly seen around the city beginning around sunrise.  The man's workout is so common that it would not even draw stares from local hikers.
    Taipei0037a rescan.jpg
  • There are images that come into my head sometimes and I’m not sure where they come from.  Dreams have always been a rich resource for me and poems too and this shot came through both channels.  One of my assistants in New York was Roy Michaels, a former rock star of sorts whose band, Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys, was produced by Jimi Hendrix.  He used to play concerts with Hendrix, several hundred thousand people screaming fans and now he was painting my studio ceiling - and not in the Michael Angelo sense -  we're talking flat white Sears’ house paint.  A decade plus later Roy was happy with his life, content to live without crowds and the rock star life. He kept a little sailboat in San Francisco Bay called Invictus where he could get away from it all.  I had never heard the poem Invictus and Roy recited it to me as he painted my ceiling.  I had a dream that night and started making this little set in the corner of my loft with seagulls soon after.  These were the days before PhotoShop.  The guy in this photo, another assistant is actually hanging there suspended with seagulls tied to his wrists – he wasn’t dropped in later by a computer.  I guess this set looked pretty strange even to the artists in the building who would pass by my loft and ask what I was doing.   Some of these same artists would paint some pretty strange imagery while working through various neuroses but it’s one thing to paint a fantasy, its quite another to actually build it.
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