NYC Pics

[Boo Radley]

I have loads of pics so please bear with me.

The fact that I have lots of pics indicates that I'm a total photography amateur so unlike some of the photography pros on our forum, my pics suck.


I'm adding the pics in the order I took them and will try adding some commentary



Firday ~3am Time Square


If you look to the right of this pic you'll see a guy wearing a mask?
I only noticed this now... weird





Toys R Us Time Square




So you wanna see my pics, you have to see the disgusting ones too . I was taking a pic when this guys walked in front of the camera blowing his nose.

[Boo Radley]

Saturday Morning - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

I heard this museum was huge and fabulous but I never imagined it would be that large and still fun! If you're going to NYC you need to dedicate at least 6 hours to this museum.

I'm not exactly an "art" kind of person yet I really enjoyed the museum.


freaking construction ruined the look of the building from outside



Some randomly taken pics from the museum







I love this pic:

















Stuffed shark



Modern art





Gotta love modern art:

















Starving



Sorry had to remove myself from this pic hehe



Egyptian section









Outside of the museum

[Boo Radley]

Saturday Late Afternoon - American Museum of Natural History


The Metropolitan Museum of Art was huge so we never got to finish it all but we had to leave or we'd spend the whole trip there.

Anyways, I thought things couldn't get any better. I was wrong! The American Museum of Natural History is spectacular! Being more of a science than arts guy, I loved this museum.

Just in case you guys don't know, this is the museum that was filmed in the movie "Night at the Museum"!!! Yes!!! I even saw parts that I remembered seeing in the movie!

oh, and admission to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The American Museum of Natural History is very cheap. Guess how much? Well it says $20 for adults but in small letters above it says "suggested". I had done my research online before going and I found out that the admission fee is a donation and you can pay whatever amount you want. So you can pay $1, $5, $10, $100... whatever you like. How much did I pay?





Remember this from the movie?




Here are the pics. All these animals are real stuffed animals. Unfortunately the pics will give no justice to this museum.












So all of the above pics are in displays just like in the movie. Here's a pic that makes this clearer:











And my favourite section! Dinosaurs!!






















Cuz I'm a geek I had to take a pic of this malfunctioning screen in the museum





And my gift to SC'ers! STUFFED RODENTS




Boobies

No, not these... stop using your dirty mind






"Boobies are so called because sailors considered these fearless birds to be stupid"




The museum also had sections for all cultures. Unfortunately the museum was closing so I didn't get to see everything.









Darwin section was awesome! They had real skulls of a semi-human semi-ape person... trying to remember his name... hmmm

Also strange ones like these. These were built based on foot prints only.





Real Asteroid!



Outside of the museum

[Boo Radley]

Saturday Evening - Night: Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, Broadway & Time Square















I like taking pics of a large crowd on the other side of the street waiting to cross. Many movies have this scene... there's something exciting about it.







No I didn't get hit by a car





































Special pics just for roseofblack

[Boo Radley]

Sunday Morning/Afternoon: Central Park

In the middle of Manhattan's hustle and bustle, I find it amazing that such a wonderful and huge park exists. The park has a street that goes round it dedicated to bikes and rollderblades.

That day was terribly hot and it was very hard to enjoy anything is that heat.

[Boo Radley]

The Subway stations are old and dirty.

All of NYC in general smells like garbage and sewage, the floors are filthy and the whole places is disgusting. I understand it's an old city with millions of visitors each year, but so are capital European cities and they're way cleaner. Kingston feels so ritzy compared to NYC

[Boo Radley]

On our way back home

The tunnel where iRobot and a bunch of other movies were filmed. It goes under the river and takes about 10 minutes driving to drive from one end to the other.




NYC Skyline




Got delayed for 2 hours because of a burning bus






Nature just as rewarding as NYC itself

[jenna321]

Those are some great pictures especially the Museum. Thanks for sharing with us!

[Skippy]

Cool!

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder too!

[twin]

Great pics . I'm so jealous, would love to go to New York.
Love the statues

[harkatsmom]

Wow, NY looks so busy...guess that is why that guy walked in front of your camera eh

You got some really great shots from different angles in the museum, and they turned out great.

Have to day though, that some of the art work is comparable to my munchkins

Look forward to seeing the rest of your pics Boo.

PS

You didn't have to edit the picture with you in it though...

[eri]

awesome awesome awesome

[Mia001]

wow, thank's Boo for sharing with us
have a nice evening

[Sally888]

Very nice. Ive gotten my nekkid fix for the night, heheheh.
I would love to go to the naturall art museum, reminds me of night at the museum. Very cool!

[SavingKarina]

Love the night shots. My camera can't take those.