Figure 1 – The View down NYC’s Fifth Avenue from 84th Street. (c) DE Wolf 2018.

I took the image of Figure 1 over the Thanksgiving weekend. It is the view down Fifth Avenue of New York City from 84th Street. I was focused at the time on the wonderful cloud patterns and their accentuation using the IPhone’s dramatic “Noir” filter. Soon gone will be the generation that remembers the classic Wratten Deep Red A Filter! However, on work-up, my mind turned to Edward Steichen’s fabulous gum bichromate over platinum print of a century ago of the Flatiron Building, with its deep blue tones. So I took on the digital task of cold toning this photograph. Perhaps I went too far. But I really like the moody Stonehenge effect.