Gary in Queens

@garyqueens.bsky.social

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Form // Color // Shade // Texture he/him #EastCoastKin Also, I write https://bsky.app/profile/atgeekay.bsky.social https://ko-fi.com/geekay

In stark black and white, a view of dry grass in the foreground with a darker upward grassy slope in thenackground, stippled with glowing wildflowers.
Black and white view of a grid fountain from the 80s, with a classical lion head within it. To the top left, a security camera leers.
A stone wall of layered stacked brick, covered with algae of a new spring.
A black and white view into a wooded area in New Jersey. Across the frame a train is visible.
Wide shot in black and white of the back of a man sitting on a park bench, gazing out at the day. The park is overgrown and teeming.
Dick Hallorann and Danny Torrance talking about what it means to “shine.”
A squirrel sits on a cement ledge, peering into swathes of tall, dry, grass.
Black and white frame of a person sitting at a table with hands clasped as in rest or prayer. Their head is out of frame.
Deeply contrasted black and white frame of a tar kettle with an open flame on an asphalt work site in Manhattan.
Classic cover from the Weekly Wolrd News depicting a confused kitten in restraints with the headline “Kitten Guilty of Murder!”
Inverted angle wide shot of colorful faces of buildings in a city.
Black and white close frame of a planter riddled with grass, leaves and spent cigar ends.
Black and white view of a building wall with slats in a light gradient.
Large frame of the top of the New Yorker hotel bathed in light. Black and white.
The cover of Tom Waits’ album, ‘Real Gone.’
Symmetrical frame of a weathered, wooden double door on a yellow wall. The door has posters of traditional chinese mythological figures.
Two hulking apartment complexs straddle a long, open concourse.
Black and white frame of stippled snow with the stems of frozen vines protruding from the frozen surface.
In black and white, a coffee cup lays discarded on a pile of hard frozen snow and filth on a NYC sidewalk.
Hardened snow forming a small valley on asphalt in New York City.
Dirty, hard snow and ice forms a bloom on a new york city street.
A dashing, young Tom Selleck sits on the back of a sports car and smiles.
High contrast black and white photo of a textured, wet section of asphalt.
Medium frame of the middle section of a tree in high contrast black and white.
Picture of the the Beatles wherein Paul is obscured by shadow and looks like what rich miser’s see on Christmas Eve.
View of space behind skyscrapers in lower manhattan. Chaotic geometry.
A smashed piece of fruit next to a painted line on a new york sidewalk. The fruit is a flourish of deep crimson and black.
Detail of a worn wall with water stains that resembles falling rain.
Inverted view of a wooden bench on a stone foundation and surrounded by stone tile.
Geometric pattern in high light.
Flourishes of red, gold, turquoise and darker colors.
A temporary barrier in front of a constrction zone that is covered with the layers upon layers of advertisement posters. The posters are worn and torn. There rectangular opening on the barrier with a view to farther walls of graffiti.
View of the elevated cement structures and trees of little island. Black and white with heavy contrast.
In black and white with strong contrast. A semi-symmetrical vista of pidgeons lighting on the steps of a greco-roman structure in Manhattan with colonnades in the background.
Symmetrical view of two apartment buildings in Manhattan in high light.
Black and white Detail of a wall covered in Moss in Flushing, Queens .
A low horizon under a large sky of blue, orange and white.
View of the top of a white, modern building against a blue sky.
Detail of a wall with a geometric texture. Inverted and cool-colored.
Trees and flowers in a public garden, over lit and glowing in the summer.
Black and white medium shot of a playground in between apartment buildings in Manhattan. There are three arches that emit water for cooling on hot days of summer.
Detail of a mosaic wall in Grand Central station detailed tiles of varying sizes and square dimensions. Tiles are blue, teal and green.
Black and white frame of newly demolished building space in between two standing buildings.
Inverted view of a brick wall meeting the painted line of a parking space. Black and white.
Black and white view of a turn in a marble walkway.
Detail of a wall with worn, displaced mosaic tile and running paint from the Borough Hall Subway station in Brooklyn, NYC. The view resembles an aerial view of a field bordered by intersecting roads.
Detail of a wall in the Borough Hall MTA station in Brooklyn, NY. Wood grain and lines of worn paint create a surface that looks almost like that of a gas giant planet.
Detail of a blue painted wall with a horizontal line og yellow gold across the top. The wall is worn, aged, dusted.
A long perspective view of the grass by the railing at Flushing LIRR Station. Black and white.
Large flourish of white paint on Madison Avenue in New York City. Black and white.
Heavy contrasted Black and White image of a dirty, stained wall of brick.
Detail of two horozontally arranged bricks on an aging building wall. The top brick is clear, the bottom brick is stained with vibrant, earthen tones. Both bricks are pocked and pitted with the texture of age.
View of a dirty patch of street in lower manhattan with an emphasis on the contrast in color and texture.
Detail of cement curb meeting asphalt street. Curves of tar scattered with trash.
Among the many hulking trees in Washington square park, one single tree with few leaves is brightly lit from above.
Close-medium frame of a brick wall with a single cutting through downward right diagonally. The bricks and mortar are accented by green algae.
Stone wall in Grand Central that is dark but lit from the floor in the ceiling, making for highlights of undulating patterns within the stone.
Detail of a wall in a subway station with a pipe crossing the frame in the top third. Lit from above.