Nicole Bengiveno

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An ongoing photo series of time & motion, to be continued, inspired by physics and the city, originating with the NYT column: LENS Searching for the Essence of Atmosphere.

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Photos © Nicole Bengiveno/New York Times

A full moon rise timescape exposure, from the Brooklyn Bridge looking north, searching for the essence of atmosphere
   
A water ferry from Manhattan to New Jersey
   
     
  
Like a sundial keeping time, spots of lights made their way across the wall along Grace Plaza in Midtown Manhattan; its building's glass facade revealed the source. To see or not to see, that is the reflection.
   
Manhattan's full moon rise brightened the sky, the collective inner glow of the buildings inspired thoughts of lunar myths. A view from the Brooklyn Bridge looking north.
  
A subway train in motion along the platform at Smith and Ninth St Station in Brooklyn becomes vapor-like in the timescape exposure.
     
  
Just because we can't see it, that doesn't mean it's not there. A time exposure at twilight proves that the Magic Hour does exist.
   
A winter jogger runs through a long exposure taken along the West Side Highway in NYC
   
     
  
   
Into the vortex, rush-hour traffic becomes physics in motion near Grand Central Terminal.
   
On the floor of Grand Central Terminal, where sunlight ricochets and reflects, shadows meet, unbeknownst to their keepers.
     
  
In memory of the color green, preserved in transition on a trek through New York's Central Park.
   
The underground exhaled, hot to cold, drawn into the light of a Lower Manhattan intersection along Ave D.
  
A subway train pulls through New York's Harlem 125th Street station overpass.
     
  
The afterglow of a NYC 4th of July fireworks display lights-up the smoke-filled sky
   
A study in growth Central Park NYC
   
     
  
A NYC East Village wall provides the backdrop: Witness shadow land, where the census depends on the time of day.