Zoom in/out over NYC skyline at sunset. Last Light over the City. ©2020 by Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.

Zooming In & Out

Zooming in and out while on a tripod can create quite some cool effects. Here are a few examples: The … More

Starburst Sunrises

Today I’d like to focus on a few images that capture the starburst effect–that is, the sun in the shape … More

Shadows & Words. The NYC AIDS Memorial. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.

World AIDS Day in Images

December 1 is World AIDS Day Here’re a few images inspired by covering the HIV and AIDS pandemic on World … More

Summer Photo Happenings

Meet Influential Photographers June is here and summer is in the City. These past couple of months have been busy, … More

Photo Updates: The Berlin Modular Society #10 Concert

Responding to a Call for Submissions and using my photography for a good cause For the past month or so, … More

Blue Tribute Lights in NYC on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Tribute in Light Memorial and the Freedom Tower. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.

One Night in September

Photographing the 9/11 Tribute Lights I was going to call this post “One Day in September,” but I’m still working … More

September 11 – Twenty Years Later

Today is September 11, 2021. To this day, we still remember where we were and what we were doing on … More

9/11 Tribute Lights. Photo by Alina Oswald.

September 11 related Photography

September 11, 2001 – September 11, 2021. For the past twenty years, we gather together on this day, 9/11, to … More

New York, NY

This past weekend was a holiday weekend–Memorial Day weekend–here, in the U.S.. It was a rainy, cold weekend, too. And … More

NYC after sunset, seen through a foreground bokeh of Christmas lights. ©Alina Oswald. All Rights Reserved.

Creative Photography Ideas for the Holidays

Holiday Lights Bokeh as Foreground, Background, or Subject ‘Tis the season yet, again, this year, and although I’m never in … More