Kris Taeleman | 
Let’s do a small jump of about 4500 kilometers (2800 miles) form San Francisco to New York. While having to wait 12 hours for a connecting flight to Brussels, we decided to make a quick visit to the Big Apple.
I spotted this photographer while during our morning stroll in Central Park. I learned from Ron Niebrugge that the camera he is using is a 4×5 large format camera which apparently is still very popular with landscape photographers. It is not as impressive as the one he encountered during his photo shoots though, which you can see in this post on his blog.
Central Park, New York
An interesting fact about New York is that during the last glacier period (30.000 – 10.000 years ago), New York was fully covered by glaciers. The grooves left by these glaciers can be easily observed in the rocks still present at Central Park (as you can see in the picture). These glaciers also contributed to the current skyline of New York. Large amounts of soil, stone, and other debris were scraped up by the expanding glaciers were deposited where the ice front retreated. Therefore, buildings can be a lot higher on those places. This is why Manhattan has areas with very large skyscrapers and other spots with smaller buildings.