As Krissa has said, I think The Gates in Central Park are approaching total saturation photographically. At night, when we were wandering around (after our spot voxpop for the Christian Science Monitor), the sporadic flashes of white light on orange seemed to be part of the show.
As art, they are spread over the park, ubiquitous at the same moment as being unexpected and unusual. Photographing them is hard, because they are what they are. In the heat of their intense scrutiny as a short-lived work of publicly accessible art lies the crux of what makes the task of anyone photographing them much harder. It is difficult to show them in a light in which they have not already been considered or contemplated for what they are - both individually at the personal level or en masse with the few panoramic shots available in Central Park's gnarly maze. I think the really great photographs will contain either the obstruction of the vista of, or human interaction with, The Gates...
...which is lucky, really, as I took this photo on a 2 second whim whilst doing what I always do when Krissa is finished doing her pro-school stuff with the camera, which is muck about.
Check out the rest of the pictures from our walk, over in the pH gallery.
And of course, it's ten times better than anything I took. And I'm NOT just saying that because I'm in it.
Two sentences, two rather whopping fibs, Ladies and Gentlemen. Two sentences, two fibs.
OMG!!! I've just been having a look at some of the aerial photography of the gates... which led me to search for more aerial photogrpahy of Central Park... i just have to say that I knew Central Park was big... but... jeeeez.... it's not exactly "big" for a inner city park.. it's fu#king GINOOOOOORMOUS!!