NYC: All The World Loves Ice Cream

Taken at Flushing Corona Park, Queens, NYC, site of the 1964 World Fair.

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Nice, i like the way the shadows look in that pic....

I likee this shot BB ... and I likee ice-cream too. Shame he isn't taking a big lick of it.

Thanks, this was shot contra-luz (against the light). Had to bring out the face and ice cream a bit in PP. I thought the shadows were interesting too.

Thanks Dave! It doesn't look it here, but that globe structure at the back is really massive.

Ahh, the old World's Fair, an idea that has long ago died off. I attended that Fair many times during it's run. I was 7 years old when it opened. I could recount many of the exhibits like it was yesterday.

Later in life I lived in Forest Hills and used to do my daily runs through there.

Great shot, especially the shadow that is thrown down like a gauntlet at his feet.

mark

THanks Mark! Too bad they don't have these World Fairs anymore, I think it is a great concept. I like Flushing Corona Park, sometimes I go there for a pick up soccer game or do loops on my bike. And I've wathed a few US Open matches there too, it's just a great sprawling place.

It is too bad they don't do the world's fair anymore. I've been to the NY and Montreal and enjoyed them. When I was in school in Brooklyn, class trips included that park. There is a science museum and other sites near there. I remember eating with my class at the benches, nice bologna & cheese on stale bread with luke-warm milk. Those were the days. I've been to US Open matches there. I was in the main venue when Connors won his last quarter finals. Everyone loved Connors. Great times. Beautiful shot, Pio, especially love the shadows. My brother's photography is mainly B&W and bridges of NYC with lots of shadows. Maybe we should consider a shoot at the Brooklyn Bridge sometime. Those are wonderful photo ops. The little hexagon concrete pieces are another fine memory. I remember times when I didn't want to "walk on a crack" and it wasn't very easy there. Thanks for posting.

Suzy, I meant to mention that I too attended Expo '67 in Montreal.

All I can say, though, is that my bread wasn't stale, and I always had soda. I don't drink milk.

I used to live a few blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge, right in the heart of Brooklyn Heights, having worked in the Supreme Court there from 1979 to 1989. I have a few shots from the promenade in the days before digital. Guess I need to go back there too.

mark

Really great shot, i love the innocent look on the kids face. Great composition too

Mark, the Brooklyn Bridge is about the most interesting for shadows, IMO. The cables are just amazing there. I have on my thread the shot of the Verrazano on the way home from Brooklyn, and that is another of my favorites. My mother worked in Chinatown when I was young and I remember going on the D train on the Manhattan bridge and watching looking out of the subway to watch the cars and shadows on the Brooklyn just across the air. I must have experienced that view about a thousand times and I never thought it was boring.

Okay ... like and dislikes:
1) Like the globe
2) Really really like the shadow and the kid standing at the shadow's end (sorta Cartier-Bresson-ish)
3) Don't like the crop so close to the shoe
4) Like the way the kid is crowding the right side
5) Don't like the way the kid is crowding the right side
(can't make up my mind)
6) I like ice cream
7) Like the expression on the kid ... I like that he is deep in thought (not taking a big lick) ... kinda makes one wonder on what could be more important than ice cream for the kid to stop and ponder? Probably thinking that he should have gotten the cone dipped...
eight) Don't like the lack of contrast on the back lighted kid (a fill-in flash would have been helpful but you already know that)
9) Watch your horizons ... the building and the base on the globe looks a bit of an angle (I know very picky ... but it's attention to little stuff that makes the big stuff better) ... but then you'll lose more of the shoe... sigh ...
10) Like the B&W conversion
11) Would prefer the kid all by himself... just him, an ice cream and the world.

Nicely Done - BTW

Haha lovely shot. I live 10 minutes walking from there, infact I'll be shooting there tonight
Awesome capture.

funny...I have a shot very similiar to that of my brother holding a hot dog when we were at that World's Fair....I did it with my Grandfathers Rollie....somewhere's I have the neg....dunno...but your image brings all that special time back to me....don

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