It’s been a while since I took some new pictures and I kind of ran out of pictures from my last trip to the US, so here is one from the archive. This picture was taken in Düsseldorf, Germany, a bit after the one I posted several months ago.
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets in New York City. The centerpiece of the Rockefeller Center is the Rockefeller plaza with the bronze statue of the Greek legendary titan Prometheus, bringing fire to mankind. During winter, the Rockefeller Plaza hosts an ice skating ring as you can see in the picture.
In the picture you see the famous GE building (872 foot – 266 m) which was the setting for the famous photograph by Charles C. Ebbets in 1932 of workers having lunch on a steel beam without safety harnesses.
A picture of one of my favorite animals, a squirrel hiding a nut in the snow in a park in New York.
Another picture of a San Francisco Fire truck, but this time a bit more than the bell alone.
This picture was taken as the truck was passing by at rather high speed. Trying to move the camera along with the truck caused the environment to be motion blurred and the firetruck to be rather sharp.
The Flatiron Building, which when constructed was called the Fuller Building, was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. The building is located on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, on the south end of Madison Square. It received its name because it is shaped like a clothes iron.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in New York, right across the street from Rockefeller Center. The land on which the cathedral stands was bought in 1813 by Dom Augustin Lestrange, abbot of a community of Trappists from the original monastery of La Trappe, which now brews the only non-Belgian Trappist beer (and the only one I haven’t tasted yet…).
The cornerstone of the cathedral was laid on August 15, 1858, just south of the orphanage founded by the Trappist monks and later further maintained by the Diocese of New York. Currently, it is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
PS: If you want to see the strangest case of perspective, take a look at the map location of the picture.
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States and stretches 1825 m over the East River connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn. Since its opening, it has become an iconic part of the New York skyline.
The pedestrian walkway which lies in the center of the bridge and higher than the automobile lanes, permits the passage of pedestrians across the bridge. From the Brooklyn side of the bridge, you get a fantastic overview over the skyline of New York, as you can see in the picture.
In 2006, a Cold War era bunker was found by city workers near the East River shoreline of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The bunker, hidden within one of the masonry towers, still contains the emergency supplies that were being stored for a potential nuclear attack by the Soviet Union.
Another view of the edge of Central Park, New York, in the snow. This shot was taken around 9 in the morning.
This panorama was assembled from 8 different pictures and shows an overview over San Francisco taken from the end of the Van Ness Avenue, which forms an inlet in the bay where people are allowed to swim with a small beach/recreational area.
The original image was 15256×2237, so I had to resize the picture so it would be easily viewable on screen, click the image to view the larger size.
PS: Who can spot the dragon hidden in the picture? 
Kris Taeleman | 
