Wednesday Walk in Long Island City

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea being to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first let me explain the challenge.

Wednesday walk challenge

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Try and get a few shots not just one

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Try to limit yourself to a set distance or time from the starting location, say 5 Blocks, 5 Minutes walk or whatever and see what you can find in that short distance

make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join it this week please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

For my Entry for the challenge for this week, I will show you some shots of a walk I did lat last week around Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City

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Starting with this shot showing the view of the Manhattan Skyline across the East River.

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A visit to this park would be complete if I didnt share a shot of the Gantrys, from which I guess the park got its name, this shot is taken from out on one of the many Piers in the park

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Speaking of Piers here is looking out over one of them.

Gantry Plaza State Park is a 12 Acre park in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City and has some cool views across the East River, in this shot you can see a few of the well-known buildings the tops of the Empire State and Chrysler buildings, the United Nations Buildings as well as the leaning towers of the American Copper buildings which I did a post on recently

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And here is a shot where i zoomed in on the American Copper buildign, what I didnt know when I did the post on it is that the bit that connects the two buildings which can be seen clearly in this shot holds a swimming pool, must be a unique experience swimming there.

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And finishing off with a shot looking along the river, you can see Roosevelt Island and the 59th Street Bridge in this shot, and also in this shot is the weel known Pepsi sign which is on the left hand side, I do have more shots of it and that will be another post at some stage even though I have never been a Pepsi fan and never drink it lOL

I hope a few of you may find this an interesting challenge and decide to join in.

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