Our backyard is currently a field of daisies and so we thought that we’d play with the camera and a single daisy.
Regular lens:
Fisheye macro Lens:
Macro lens sans fisheye attachment.
TOTAL COOLNESS!!!
What Does A Building With 38 Active Violations Look Like?
For years we’ve seen this former nursing home located at 2300 Cropsey Avenue in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, crumble and slowly become etched with graffiti. Since it has the appearance of being a building that was to be demolished we checked out the NYC Department of Buildings record on it and found that it currently has 38 active violations and two active complaints against it.
Our favorite violation was this one that reveals that both the top floor and the fire service piping had been removed without a permit. It read:
“WORK W/O PERMIT: WORK NOTED,EXISTING STAND PIPE REMOVED SECTION OF PIPING FROM MAIN VALUE FROM FIRE SERVICE PIPING TO STAND PIPE RISER. ALSO FOUND TOP FLR WAS REMOVED & CUT AWAY. ALSO ALL OF THE HOSE VALVES WER”
This building is a perfect example of how the Department of Buildings is an absolute joke in the City of New York.
Some of the violations have been overdue and have not been in compliance for over 17 years; while there are numerous other active and open violations that date back nearly a decade!
Further evidence of just how big of a joke the NYC Department of Building: the fact that there are currently $69,600 worth of outstanding penalties that date back years without payment.
The DOB appears to be powerless with regard to having the ability to enforce anything and the owners appear to think that DOB summons as well as other official notes need to fade out in the sun — either that or they just can’t be bothered anymore with the mere thought of this place.
They’re stuffed all over! We counted over half a dozen Department of Buildings summonses fading away into obscurity.
If you’d like to see photos of the inside of this abandoned building and what the roof looks like, check out LTVsquad’s shots.
Fisheyed KFC
The scent that wafts out from this KFC has always made us want to yack.
Yet it looks oddly good through the fisheye.
Cat In A Box
Our cat is ever so slightly too long to fit in this old Amazon.com shipping box, but that doesn’t stop her from getting comfortable in it. She has two positions for it. The one she is pictured with holding her head resting on a flap. The other position being curled up in a ball to the point where we could in theory closed the flaps.
This box is her crack. It was moved off to a corner on the other side of the room for several weeks. When were in the process of moving the empty box back to this original spot our cat jumped off of her chair, ran across the room over to said spot, nearly knocked us over in the process and jumped into the box before it was even fully on the floor.
Fisheyed Chase Bank
In exchange of the analog Diana fisheye camera that we received for Christmas (see yellow fisheyed beetle pic) we got some lens attachments for our digital camera.
This is a shot of an old Lincoln Savings bank that was built in the 1930s that is now home to a Chase Bank.
It’s a classic ‘bank’ building.
And with this, we just got hooked on a whole other side of photography and look forward to exploring it more.