In October 2011 I was in New York for sixteen days and my only camera was a Fujifilm X100. In other journeys in this blog I had a couple of full-frame DSLRs and a barrage of lenses. However, this time I was with my partner so the primary purpose of the trip was not photographic and also I didn’t know in advance how safe it would be wandering around New York with expensive photographic equipment. Mainly we were interesting in visiting museums and galleries and catching some live music. I was also interested in what I might find in the way of street photography and how well the X100 would cope.
- First we take Manhattan …
- Wandering in Manhattan
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Michael Powers Frequency at Terra Blues
- Brooklyn Museum and Botanical Gardens
- The Flatiron Building
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met)
- The Cloisters
- Joe Louis Walker plus the Nighthawks at the Iridium
- Barb Jungr at the Met Room
- American Museum of Natural History
- The View from the Top
- Unseasonal Snow
- Central Park
- Lower Manhattan
- #Occupy Wall Street!
- Marshall Crenshaw & the Les Paul Trio at the Iridium
- Halloween and Subway
- Islamic Art Exhibition at the Met
- Duke Robillard at the Iridium
- American Museum of Natural History, Take 2
- Studebaker John at Terra Blues
- The Met, Take 3
- John Nemeth at Terra Blues
- Brooklyn
- Joe Bonamassa at Beacon Theatre
Murray Foote 
Planning to go to NY next year. How safe is it (re. cameras)?
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Pretty safe. By all accounts it was pretty hairy twenty years ago but these days there are many much more dangerous places in the States. Of course it’s a big city so normal caution applies.
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Thanks Murray
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Nice shots Murray, and what a treasure trove of blues artists. Looking forward to the other photos.
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Thanks, Derek. New York isn’t primarily a Blues Venue so there are not that many places to see Blues and the venues can be quite small. It wasn’t cheap but we saw some great performances in great venues with audiences of no more than twenty. My camera just had a fixed 35mm equivalent lens but we were able to get right beside the stage on all occasions except for Joe Bonamassa on the last night at the Beacon Theatre (with several thousand people).
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