{"id":337,"date":"2010-09-06T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T22:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=337"},"modified":"2013-07-02T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T16:22:44","slug":"empire-state-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/empire-state-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire State Building [ Northern VA Real Estate Photographer ]"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few more of my favorites from our recent trip to New York City. \u00a0This time photos of the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n

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The night we visited the top of the Empire State Building it was SUPER cloudy. \u00a0As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure that the observation deck was engulfed in a cloud. \u00a0It was cold and windy up there and the fog was thick. \u00a0This made for what I think are almost spooky looking photos. \u00a0I decided to use my wide-angle lens (a 16-35) to capture as much as I could in each frame. \u00a0Here are a few of my favorite shots of this impressively tall building!<\/p>\n

Looking upward from the observation deck… for some reason the red exit sign just screams spooky to me…<\/p>\n

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Straight up from outside the front door…<\/p>\n

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And my absolute favorite… probably again because of the combination of perspective, red lights and thick clouds.<\/p>\n

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We’ve visited the Empire State Building before… back in college. \u00a0This time we went with our children and a friend who had never been there. \u00a0I remember thinking the first visit was “okay”… but probably one visit was enough for me. \u00a0So I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to go again… but as parents we wanted our kids to get to be there and experience it, and well our friend is here from another country and she really wanted to go.<\/p>\n

We started out with the NY Skyride – an interactive movie\/ride (similar to the types of rides you’d see in Epcot or Disney). \u00a0The movie itself was… well… a bit of a stretch. \u00a0But our 6 year olds LOVED IT! \u00a0When we came home they kept saying the ride was their favorite part. \u00a0What I liked about it was that it allowed us to bypass a long portion of the line to the top.<\/p>\n

Once we got up top it was super crowded (of course) and very cold and windy. \u00a0We definitely should have brought along jackets for the kids. \u00a0So, while they took a peek over the edge they very quickly decided they’d rather be inside. \u00a0it was past bedtime before we made it to the top… and cold. \u00a0Still – they got to stand there and experience it… and they still talk about it. \u00a0So that’s great!<\/p>\n

I, on the other hand, enjoyed it MUCH more this time around with camera-in-hand. \u00a0It was a fun challenge to play with settings, long exposures, varying angles. \u00a0So… if you’re a photo mom like me (who has a SUPER supportive spouse that was willing to entertain the kids while I played around with camera settings) I would highly recommend a visit to the top of the Empire State Building at night!<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by my little photo blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few more of my favorites from our recent trip to New York City. \u00a0This time photos of the Empire State Building. The night we visited the top of the Empire State Building it was SUPER cloudy. \u00a0As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure that the observation deck was engulfed in a cloud. \u00a0It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,699,729,80,730],"tags":[91,62,1219,63],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-location","category-out-and-about-by-type","category-out-and-about-2","category-our-hometown-within-driving-distance","category-vacation-destinations","tag-empire-state-building","tag-long-exposure","tag-new-york-city","tag-night-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}