Rockefeller Center, Through the Viewfinder

The day I thought of this series I left with the intention of taking some simple photographs of Rockefeller Center and the tree, but ended up with something much more interesting: hundreds of photographs looking through peoples viewfinders on their cameras and cellphones.

It was actually a pretty challenging thing to do.  Rockefeller Center is packed with people streaming through the area and I usually had to get directly behind a person to capture a good enough photo from their viewfinder.  Add into the mix the low light in the area, being bumped constantly, along with people shaking their cameras around and a lot of great photographs were lost.

A couple of times I had a perfect photo in view, only to be almost knocked off my feet by a passing tourist (or more likely at the speed they were going a native New Yorker).

But many times I was the cause of my own inadvertent bumpings, and I heard one to many comments from this about how annoying tourists were with their photographs.