I was struck by the way the new Apple Store on the Upper West of Manhattan side seems to illuminate and warm the whole block, so I went searching online for images that showed how it really felt. I thought there would be tons - it's a spectacular piece of architecture - but aside from Apple's own institutional-white shots, there weren't many at all, and none by artists or architectural photographers. So here's my version. A warm, inviting hearth in the middle of cold, structured Gotham. It almost looks like CG where a guy on a mac designed the Apple Store and some guy on a PC designed the rest of the city around it. I'm going back again when I can get roof access - this was taken through a dirty movie theater window.

This image is called "Solitary #5". Solitary, as in "confinement." #5 because I edited four images before this, which, though nice images of the cold and snow, all contained elements of the beautiful. This one isn't. It's flat grey, cold to the point where you feel it, and separates starkly the stacked cell apartments from the frigid, lifeless New York outdoors. "Another week in the hole" it says, and that's how New York feels today.

Enjoy.

Grand Central is something of a beast to shoot in - massive banks of daylight but with and incredible amount of tungsten lighting inside, people moving unpredictably all over the place - but what an awesome venue.

We took a ton of shots, but I found myself having difficulty finding the right exposure and angle in a lot of them - there were almost too many options. Alas, quite a few great images resulted, so I thought I'd share one or two. This is Terri & Guan, a young couple slated to be married June 19th, 2010.