Woman In Yellow

Woman in Yellow, Chinatown, New York City (click to enlarge)
Nikon D200; 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 kit lens @ 70mm; 1/250th sec. @ f/8; ISO 200

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an image of a young girl in a red antique automobile, lost in her own thoughts as the world passed her by.  I wrote that it was one of my favorite photographs.  You can see that photo here.  Posting that caused me to think about other photographs that I had made, mostly now forgotten due to time and life.  Almost immediately I thought of the image of the woman in yellow walking down a street in Chinatown in New York City.  That photo is posted above.

Along with another couple, my wife and I spent a few days in NYC just visiting, seeing the sights and going to a couple of Broadway shows.  Of course, we sampled a great variety of food from different neighborhoods.  We traveled by subway and our feet.  That way, we couple really experience “The City.”

While in Chinatown, we visited ‘The Bloody Angle,’ a notorious sharp turn on the one block long Doyer's Street where there was an infamous massacre among gangs in 1905.  It is an interesting little story in NYC's history.  You can read more about it here if you are interested.  As we continued our walk, as we arrived at a nearby intersection, Pell Street if I entered the photos keywords correctly, where I turned and saw this woman coming down the street in deep shadow.  I also saw the sliver of sunlight.  So, I waited.  As she entered the bright sun, her sweatshirt lit up like neon and I made a few quick exposures.  This is the one I liked best.

I just love how the color brings everything together in this image—the contrasting and complementary colors of the signs, awnings and banners—with her sweatshirt in bright sunlight.  When I look at this image, my eye immediately goes to the yellow sweatshirt then moves up to the yellow sign.  From there, it wanders through the frame, looking at all the details in the shadows and then back to the woman in yellow.   Because of the colors and how it keeps my eye in the photo looking for details rather than wandering out of it, it has become a favorite photo.

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Dennis A. Mook  

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