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Just testing a wireless flash in the living room, but I liked how this picture turned out.

The first picture shows the elevator shaft in the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square. It takes less than 30 seconds for the 49 floors (see also here a picture while in the elevators taken last year).

This was the 247th consecutive year of the parade. For more info see St. Patrick’s Day on Wikipedia.

Two pictures of the Shops at Columbus Circle inside Time Warner Center.

The McGraw-Hill building (on the right side) is my workplace. At the time this picture was taken, it was the 45th tallest building in Manhattan with 51 floors and 207 meters height.

A colleague lent me the Canon 10-22 EF-S for a week; I was not at all impressed by picture quality and sharpness, but this is really wide. Here is a Midtown street crossing under rain:

Every business has its own marketing strategy. I don’t know how effective is this dentist’s large open window facing the street while he is performing an intervention on a patient…

A classical snapshot of New York: a combination of skyscrapers, old small buildings, elevated parkings and the yellow cabs …

This is the last post in 2007:

• reflections of midtown skyline (Verizon Tower on the left, Empire State on the right) on the HBO building
• a black & white view of newly built Bank of America Tower (left), HBO building (middle) and Grace Building (right)