Bluejake

These pictures of Central Park strike me as being boring, forumlaic, conventional, and uninteresting. I often have this problem with shots I take up in the park- they always come out looking like they were shot by a tourist. The banality of it all- the standard views of the reservoir, the mews, the lake, the shot from the top of Belevedere Castle. It's all been done countless times before- the same shots were probably taken fifteen hundred times on the day I shot these. It's the Brooklyn Bridge problem: after 100 years or more of being photographed, what's left to be discovered? The answer, I'm afraid, is nothing. [Related: Central Park in Winter, Central Park at Night, Central Park by Ixtayul.]

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