New Year's Eve Fireworks?

It just came to my attention that the year is over. Does anybody know a good location to photograph New Year's Eve fireworks in New York City?

Dinner Spectator

The 341 West Lurker and "all that image noise"

Hello visitor, I hope you had some nice holidays.

The 341 West Lurker was taken last October, shortly after I started using the Canon 50D. The picture was taken with ISO 800, and was slightly underexposed. I corrected the exposure in Lightroom and applied noise reduction. After using the 20D for years, and now the 50D since a couple of months, I got to say that I have problems getting used to all that image noise the 50D produces.
Often photography enthusiasts who invest in a high resolution camera have in mind that it gives the freedom to crop images and still end up with a decent resolution. One should keep also in mind that this is only fun if the image was taken with lower ISO settings. Otherwise you will not only bring up interesting details in your pictures, it will show all that image noise in great detail as well.

Prison Chess #10

Prison Chess #9

Window Shopping

Subway Tunnel

It's snowing outside and everybody seems to be getting into this Christmas/end-of-year mood these days. I would like to post a picture that fits the theme, but nothing of my 300 GB archive comes to my mind. So here is a picture of a subway tunnel :-)

Kebab Stand

jazz at lincoln center

Prison Chess #8

Standing Aside

Share the Road

Reminded me a bit of Alexey Titarenko. Titarenko has some amazing photographs of crowds in his portfolio.

Prison Chess Closeup

View from Brooklyn

Little Girl on Hydrant

Chess Player and Officer

Radio City Hall

Left4Dead

Times Square People

Times Square Rush

Round and Round

The ice skating rink in Central Park last Saturday. I only had a drained battery with me and no idea how long it would last. I took a couple more pictures later on Times Square and that was it.
There are at least two more of those skating rinks in the city: one at the Rockefeller Center and one in Bryant Park, maybe I'll photograph them, too - hopefully with a charged battery.