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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixty Eight: A city portrait -- impressions of New York > Curtain of glass, Park Avenue, New York City, New York, 2009
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18-SEP-2009

Curtain of glass, Park Avenue, New York City, New York, 2009

The reflections on the windows of the office structures surrounding Grand Central Terminal create a curtain of glass that looks like a soft summer rain. I cropped in on them to remove all evidence of sky in the reflections, which would have destroyed the illusion. There are four buildings involved in this image – the host building’s windows covers the entire frame, while three other buildings flow through it at left, center, and right. Each reflected building offers a different pattern and color, yet all are unified by the texture created by the host building.

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Phil Douglis30-Oct-2009 17:58
It's a mix of architecture here, Carol -- the old, the new, and the middle-aged. You are right -- when it comes to reflections, much depends upon the colors that are present and the clarity of the reflecting medium, in this case a sheer sheet of glass window panes with every little space between them.
Carol E Sandgren29-Oct-2009 21:56
I just returned from New York where I too was enticed by the shimmery "curtains of glass". This shot though is more enticing than mine due to the color clarity in the reflections. I like that one can recognize that it is an older building in the reflection rather than straight abstract design distortion.
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