Weekly Email 8-12-11 Chrysler Close Up

I have always wanted to be able to capture some of the City's tallest buildings close up.  We've all seen many angles of the great skyscrapers and I knew one day I would get a chance to get a bit closer.  This week I shot the Chrysler Building close up and it is an amazing structure.

I read that when they built it they put up about four floors a week and manually laid approximately 3,800,000 bricks and used 400,000 rivets.  It is still the world's tallest steel supported brick building and the third tallest in NYC.

Exposure ISO 640 - F/4.0 @ .6" - 200mm (top spire image)
Exposure ISO 250 - F/5.6 @ .6" - 700mm (close up)