Mysterious Night, An Art Opening and Two Suggestions/Shadow Shot Sunday

For other Shadowshot participants go to Heyharriet. 

Sitting on the windowsill taking rather bad pictures out of the window on a snowy evening when even the most ordinary things look magical. 

Who would be abroad in the park at night?

What are they doing?

Never mind that the man in the red coat is probably carrying take-away supper in his bag.

This shadow shot was taken from an 8th floor window on 11th Avenue aiming out over the Hudson the instant before my camera battery gave up.

Art openings almost always have really cool flowers (very welcome on a January night) and white wine in plastic cups. (Also welcome).

The quality of the photos in this post makes me think of a group blog Crappy Photo Blog

which R. recently discovered. Here are displayed in all their glory some perfectly 'crappy' pictures.

I'm sure we all have lots of these before we zap them into oblivion.

However, before I fall into the very murky waters of taste and aesthetics, I must admit some disastrous pictures have a certain charm.

For uber- cool non-crappy photos go to Jezblog.com.

Ugly

So much of what we see is not very pretty. But, having said it's ugly, I notice the pink metallic gleam near the beer can.

Whoever put up this tape has the same organizational skills as me. Bravo, we are loose in the world.

The person who designed this snack bar (on 7th Avenue and 23rd Street) had been to the Pre-School School of color choice. The people who work here are pretty cheerful anyway.

A close up of stuff you can buy. My new camera can capture things like this. 

Whether it should is another matter entirely. The shop is called CUTE TOONZ.

A long suffering old door on the eastside. On the left a dress of pure white.