Tag Archives: photography

Fulton Street Towers

Posted on May 19, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged architecture, Barad'hur, brooklyn, Downtown, Flatbush Avenue, Fulton Street, photography, skyscraper, verticles | Leave a comment

Our Japanese Maple Shows Off Its Red Leaves

Posted on May 11, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Beginnings | Tagged backyard, brooklyn, Color, Japanese, leaves, Maple, nature, photography, RED, tree | Leave a comment

Selfies with Statuettes If you look closely, you’ll notice this is a different moneybags figure from the one pictured above (that one smiles, this one frowns). There are sometimes similar or duplicate statuettes on both uptown and downtown platforms.

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 14th Street, 8th avenue, Alligator, art, Bronze, coins, Life Underground, moneybag, photography, platform, policeman, selfie, station, statue, statuette, subway, Tom Otterness | Leave a comment

Hanami Nights at the Cherry Esplanade

Posted on April 28, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Last Thursday the Brooklyn Botanic Garden sponsored Hanami Nights in celebration of cherry blossom season. Hanami translates to “flower viewing”. I have posted pictures of the cherry blossoms before, but this is the first year the BBG organized their special … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Live! On Stage, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged BBG, botanic, brooklyn, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, cherry, dance, dusk, Esplanade, fan, flower, folk, folk dancing, Garden, Hanami, Japan, Japanese, lights, photography, picnic, pink, Spotlight, Umbrella, viewing | Leave a comment

Film Shoot in an Upper East Side Townhouse

Posted on April 24, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

I have been busy acting in several handfuls of short films (and other projects) lately. One of the short films shot early March in an upper class Upper East Side townhouse. It was a night shoot. I played a sleazy … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope | Tagged cushioned wallpaper, dolly shot, East Side, film, Film Noir, Gordon Willis, manservant, mirrored walls, mirrors, night shoot, photography, shoot, short film, slapjack, sleazy, town house, Upper, wall paper, wet bar | Leave a comment

THE RESISTANCE GROWS!

Posted on April 19, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Photos from the April 19 March in New York City

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Literary Lyricism, Notes in the News | Tagged 5th Amendment, 5th Avenue, Abrego Garcia, Billionaires, Constitution, Cory Booker, criminal, democracy, Due Process, fascism, felon, Gestapo, ice, Kilmar, Kristi Noem, Madison Avenue, Musk, Nazi, New York City, photography, POTUS, Protest, Putin, resist, Trump | Leave a comment

Brooklyn Vantage

Posted on April 14, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Boerum Hill, brooklyn, brownstone, perspective, photography, sidewalk, town house, trees, vanishing point, vertical | Leave a comment

Exit the Hotel

Posted on April 3, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged carpet, corridor, dark glass, exit sign, hallway, Hampton, Hilton, Hotel, mirror, photography, reflection, silhouette | Leave a comment

CROCUS & CARCASS

Posted on March 17, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

CSI: Brooklyn That feeling when you go out to take photos of the first buds of Spring but then stumble upon the scene of a murder. The Remains of the Bird. Pigeon most likely. Most likely devoured by a hawk … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged Bird, brooklyn, carcass, Cooper's Hawk, Crocus, crocuses, CSI, Falcon, flowers, hawk, murder, photography, prey, purple, raptor, Spring | Leave a comment

Is FIDELIO the Original HONEYPOT?

Posted on March 9, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center Friday night Ed and I attended the Met Opera performance of Beethoven’s one and only opera “Fidelio”, and it was glorious. I generally don’t cry at operas, but I did so twice this time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On | Tagged Beethoven, Bond Girl, Ezio Pinza, Fidelio, Honeypot, Jacquino, James Bond, Leonore, Lincoln Center, Lise Davidson, Marzelline, Met, movies, Ode to Joy, Opera, pants role, photography, political prisoner, prison, Prufomo, René Pape, Rocco, secret agent, Spy, television, The Americans, Willy Brandt, Ying Fang | Leave a comment

HYACINTHS!

Posted on February 21, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged buds, Edward Elder, flower, green, hyacinth, leaves, light, odor, photography, purple, scent | Leave a comment

Excursion to the Corpse Flower

Posted on January 31, 2025 by dannyashkenasi

Last weekend we heard on the radio that an amorphophallus gigas, a “corpse flower”, was blooming in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The BBG acquired the plant in 2018 and this was the first time it was blooming, a flowering that … Continue reading →

Posted in Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged amorphophallus gigas, BBG, botanic, brooklyn, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, carrion, Corpse Flower, flowers, Garden, Japanese Garden, landscape, nature, odor, photography, Snow, titan arum, winter | Leave a comment

View from Central Park West

Posted on December 19, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged backlit, Central Park, Central Park West, Essex House, light, photography, silhouette, skyscraper, South Central Park, tree, winter | Leave a comment

The Times They’re Looking Hazy

Posted on December 11, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged brooklyn, clock, fog, future, photography, Time, Tower, Williamsburg Bank Building | Leave a comment

Espy and Fly By Norman Mooney Sculptures

Posted on October 29, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

Explorations in shapes, materials and reflections

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope | Tagged art, blades, glass, metal, mirrors, movement, Norman Mooney, photography, reflections, sculpture, selfie, studio, video | Leave a comment

BROOKLYN ARTISTS EXHIBIT at the BROOKLYN MUSEUM

Posted on October 11, 2024 by dannyashkenasi

The exhibit of contemporary Brooklyn artists currently showing at the Brooklyn Museum is resplendent with imagination and diversity, technically and aesthetically. Here is a sample of the highlights. “Mother Sky” – David Shaw “Game of Crazy Eights” – Rick Secen … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin' | Tagged Aisha Tandiwe Bell, Alison Kuo, An-My Lè, Anthony Goicolea, art, Artists, brooklyn, Cate Pasquarelli, Chitra Ganesh, David Shaw, E. V. Day, exhibition, Garry Grant, Geoffrey Chadsey, Gwyneth Scally, Haoua Habré, Honorroller, Isamar Gonzalez, Janaina Tschäpe, Jennifer Dalton, Johanna Burke, Jon Kessler, Josh Sucher, Josiah McElheny, Katherine Jackson, Kit Warren, Kyung Tae Kim, Lauren Seiden, Loren Munk, Lufti Janania, museum, Naudline Pierre, photography, Richard Haining, Rob Raphael, Scherezade Garcia, Shosh Goller, Soull Ogun, Stanley Greenberg, Steven Montgomery, Swan Series, Tamara Kostianovsky, Timothy Paul Myers, Tinuade Oyelowo, Tracie Dawn Williams, Yaw Owusu | Leave a comment

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