Petal Luma
Linus Gelber
Another episode in the Educating Linus series - as usual with plants and flowers, I have no real clue what these pretty small blossoms might be. I've tinted them a bit of a minty green for fun, but in real life they're a generous white. Any takers?
One of the happy side effects of Flickr is that I am slowly, plant by plant, learning my flowers. I walk down the street and nod sagely from time to time. "That's a petunia," I say, full of confidence. And sometimes it is.
The Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City is dotted with poppies, daisies, and clover, and festooned with patches of these this season - on this beatiful afternoon they shine in the sun, so bright they almost wash out the green leaves and worn stones around them.
This week's Utata Thursday Walk is a long hot start-of-summer outing. I kick it off at the Municipal Building, at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, and start the first stage walking across Chambers Street, all the way to the Hudson River. From there it's a quick amble down to North Cove, and then I close the photography part of the day at Astor Place in the East Village for New York's first Bubble Battle, which is a hoot.
The Thursday Walk is a running project of the Utata photo tribe. It's set up much as it sounds it might be. When Thursday comes, we go for a walk, with the camera, and then see what transpires. It's a terrific way to focus the mind's eye, and since there are no goals, I respond to each one in interesting and unpredictable ways. Or at least so it seems to me.
For the most part, I do my walks on Fridays, when I'm off work. Thursdays, you see, are a state of mind. See the rest of my Thursday Walk images in the Getting the Hang of Thursdays set.
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