New York & Paris Headers at Art & Story Blog

New York & Paris Headers

Published September 3rd, 2007 in Design

New header images for the ol’ bloggy. These are from photos taken in New York and Paris, May 2007. Notice they all have lines leading from the upper right to the lower left? Kind of odd how that turned out.

West Village, Manhattan:

Red Hook, Brooklyn:

Rooflines of Paris, France:

Musée d’Orsay, Paris:

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1 Akiko Sep 3rd, 2007 at 8:14 pm

great photos. I especially like the Brooklyn one. I think it’s challenging to create a horizontal composition. Speaking of Brooklyn, check out
http://www.saveindustrialbrooklyn.org/
National Trust for Historic Preservation lists it as one of the 11 Most Endangered Places.
2 Lee-Roy Sep 4th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

Thanks, Akiko. It can be a little challenging, but fun. I just go through my photos and drop them into a photoshop doc already at that size, move them around, resize them, etc. I think the reason I have so many diagonal lines in my header images, is they play nicely against the horizontal. There’s not a lot of room for a whole picture, so I scan photos for details/focal points, interesting colors, textures, forms, and perspective. I also keep my eye out for potential header images when I’m carrying a camera, so I keep this stuff in mind. Makes for interesting shots, anyway.

Thanks for the link. I believe it! When I was in Brooklyn I saw demolition and development going on all over the place! All those old buildings getting knocked down, because it’s cheaper to just build a new condo than to try and preserve the old stuff. Sad.
3 blauereiter Sep 5th, 2007 at 11:01 am

Very beautiful. I especially like the one of Brooklyn.
4 Lee-Roy Sep 6th, 2007 at 8:51 am

Thank you! Seems to be a favorite.

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I’m a Storyboard Artist and Illustrator currently in Los Angeles, where I live with my fiancée, three cats, and several colonies of ants. My earliest memory is as a three-year-old, drawing a picture. About three decades later, the picture is still being drawn. It’s one I never want to finish.