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Brooklyn Winter Flea Market

Alakajay, Black And White Photography, Photography

My wife and I had last Saturday off from work and whilst looking for something to do indoors on a blistering cold winter morning with windchills driving down the temperature into the single digits we found ourselves at what was the old Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in Brooklyn.
What a treat it was considering the unique architecture of this iconic building. Completed in the late 1920’s in a modernised Byzantine-Romanesque style with 63 foot vaulted ceilings this place could have been a church!
Considering I was heading to a flea market I did not carry any of my Nikon’s and as the old saying goes the best camera is the one you have with you, I used my Google Pixel for this shot.

Let’s Celebrate our Diversity

Alakajay, Black And White Photography, Photography

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American Indian Pow Wow, Long Island, New York
Nikon D610 200mm 1/160 sec at f2.8 ISO 800

Celebrate our Diversity,
For we are very different;
Respect our uniqueness,
For each of us are distinct;

For in the end we are but one,
We all represent Humanity;
In a little speck of the universe,
On a planet we call earth.

Misty Mountains of Kandy

Alakajay, Black And White Photography, Photography

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Kandy, the hill capital of the Island of Sri Lanka was also the Kingdom of Kandy from 1469 till 1815, rich in history, culture and biodiversity the city has a very special place in my heart having been my childhood home

Astor Hall

Alakajay, Black And White Photography, Photography

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This is the grand entryway to the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the flagship building of the New York Public Library from 5th Avenue, Manhattan, originally opened to the general public in 1911

Say “Hi” to Mister Ed

Alakajay, Black And White Photography, Photography

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This photograph was captured while visiting South Carolina last year and credit to the above caption should go to Joe Giordano as it was he who drew the parallel between this photo and Mister Ed, the talking horse, featured in the popular American sitcom going back to the 1960’s

McGraw Rotunda

Alakajay, Black And White Photography, Photography

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McGraw Rotunda, New York Public Library

Ceiling detail photographed at the McGraw Rotunda of the New York Public Library main building located at 5th Avenue between 40th and 42nd streets. They built things with class a 100 years ago for sure!

Riding Into The Light

Alakajay, Black And White Photography, Photography

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Visiting Rocheport in Missouri was an interesting experience and here photographing a part of the Katy Trail tunnel I was lucky to have a cyclist just pass me by while I was clicking giving me this shot.