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After a very very long day of travelling we’d finally arrived in New York

We left on Friday evening and landed in Hawaii ten hours later (and incidentally before we’d left), a couple hours later we were on another ten hour flight to JFK

Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

We’d arrived early on Saturday morning local time and thankfully our rooms were ready at our Apartments (in The Marmara Manhattan). Whilst the rest of the family slept my eldest daughter and I went out to explore on foot

We were staying on the upper east side of Manhattan (on East 94th) so we headed up to 5th Avenue on Central Park and started walking towards along the park towards down town Manhattan

New York

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 1/640 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

35 blocks later we were at 59th street and the end of the park. I’d read that this north east corner of the park was a good spot to get a good view inside the park with the city overlooking it

Central in Spring

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 100

We then headed back to 5th Avenue to check out the famed shopping strip – first stop the flagship Apple store

The Big Apple

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 45 mm, 1/200 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

Many many shops later we’d arrived tired at 42nd street so we headed east towards Grand Central Terminal railway station

Grand Orbs

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/25 sec at f/5.6, ISO 1000

The classic view inside the massive main concourse of Grand Central

Grand Central

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 2.50 sec at f/16, ISO 100

Grand

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/25 sec at f/4, ISO 200

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/25 sec at f/4, ISO 250

We walked up Lexington Ave till we reached 59th street and now tired of walking we purchased a weekly Metro Card each (which allows us unlimited travel on the NYC MTA subway and bus network for $31 – a great deal since individual trips are $2.50) and caught our first subway train back to where we were staying

Goodnight from NYC

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 25.00 sec at f/10, ISO 50

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