Hell's Kitchen, 46th Street Between Ninth and Tenth Avenues

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Even with the extra hour of sleep we had today, I still didn't get out of bed in time to do a photowalk. What to do? Luckily I found a nice shot from my November 4, 2006 photowalk that I wasn't able to use then. So here it is, a two year old shot, good as new.

I also redid the first shot from that walk, so you can see how changing to Photoshop was probably a good idea.



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Compare with the original one posted.

I'll do my best to get out tomorrow. But if not, there're a few more good ones from 2006 you haven't seen.


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Hell's Kitchen, 46th Street Between Ninth and Eighth Avenues

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Same block. Can't resist. Something about this guy makes me happy.

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Hell's Kitchen, 46th Street Between Ninth and Eighth Avenues

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Now we're back into civilization. You can tell because here there be restaurants. In fact, this block is called Restaurant Row, and I'm sorry I can't tell you how many restaurants on it, but I didn't think of counting them at the time. A lot of pre-theater business.

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Hell's Kitchen, 46th Street Between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues

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This is the last block of 46th Street before the West Side Highway and the Hudson River. It's an unusually active block for being out here on the edge – there's a construction site where they're probably putting up billion dollar apartments because, of course, what rich person wouldn't want to live in this adorably gritty neighborhood? And on the corner, there's an H&H Bagel plant and retail store, which I'm not going to show you because we don't have time, and the photo wasn't that good, but there's a photograph on their website if you are obsessive, which I sincerely hope you are. I wish I had been hungry.

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Hell's Kitchen, 46th Street Between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues

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I look up a lot more than I used to. The great thing about doing this is you can do anything you damn please, you can look up, over, stare, gawk, study your map, and it doesn't matter what people think, whether they think you're a tourist or just dimwitted, because you know better, you know you're a Street Photographer. Yeah.

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Hell's Kitchen, 46th Street Between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues

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This is a perfect photograph.

Yes, it is.

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Hell's Kitchen, 46th Street Between Ninth and Tenth Avenues

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Last Saturday I went to get a haircut at David Ryan's on West 46th Street. See map. If I were on top of things, I'd have a link to a photo of my haircut. Not on top of things. Afterwards I walked 46th Street to the river and back on 45th Street.

This is a pretty and frothy shot that reminds me in its prettiness and frothiness of this Cornelia Street shot last summer.