Holiday Greetings from the South Street Seaport

Taken from the corner of Pearl and Fulton Street, in one of the oldest and most preserved historic districts in New York City.

C9 Sonya / Happy Holidays

Downtown Brooklyn, Holiday Season 2010

The holiday season for our year of 2010 is upon us and that can mean only one thing, decor! While everyone in the city will undoubtedly be marveling at the gigantic tree in Rockefeller Center, I would like to bring forth the festive nature of Downtown Brooklyn during the holiday season.

The newly reopened Fulton Mall, which has been under construction for an extended duration is not festively decorated for the holiday season.

The same decorated Fulton Mall at night. Cold temps, checkout lines, credit card bills, pushy crowds, non-stop Christmas carols, packed subway trains, and sore feet all make the shopping experience a blur.

Not much decor in this shot, except in the distance, but all the lights give it a nice festive feel. If that doesn't do it for you, you 'You Go Girl' tag will! Looking down Atlantic Avenue.

The Christmas Tree Fire Special stands alert on Fulton Street to combat acts of retribution carried by the undoubtedly pissed off coniferous flora that received 'the chop' this holiday season.

The use of simple illumination as a form of holiday decor on one of the buildings used by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Lafayette and St. Felix.

The Williamsburg Bank Building, also known as One Hanson Place, or as I know it, the art deco phallus, uses simple red illumination. This shot is actually a double exposure; this was accomplished by a vertical, then a horizontal exposure, position on the tripod. While I'm steeping this shot in enormous innuendo, I will say furthermore, exposure of the shot was done, as with exposing all things phallic in public, with great care...

Christmas in Indianapolis

More Holiday Decor around Indy

Circle Tower, Market Street entrance.

On the circle.

At the Milano Inn on College Ave.

At Khoury's on 62nd Street near Broad Ripple Village.

On Belmont Ave, near Morris Street.

In Eagledale, I really like the use of the floods and the tactful minimal use of string lighting.

Emerson Ave in Beech Grove.

Off Main Street in Beech Grove

On Broad Ripple Ave. Lights string to the house acrossed the street.

Closer up on the front; notice the lamp in the window.

Indy Skyline

Christmas Decor on Meridian Street, close to the Lilly/Faris Campus with the Indy Skyline in the background.

Downtown Christmas Decor

It's the holiday season in Indianapolis again, and that means lots of seasonal lighting. The Friday night after Thanksgiving known as the circle of lights, is a long standing Indianapolis tradition. I decided to scope it out late at night, because I wasn't feeling up to being among a really large crowd that night.

The first night of lighting for the 2008 Holiday Season.


Yes, I like reflections.


West end, Monument Circle


Lobby of the IPL Building. I wish they could have faced another nutcracker toward the window.


IPL Building lighting pattern now features a Christmas tree.


The Broadbent Building on the night of the lighting of the circle.


CVS on Ohio Street.