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After 2 cross country drives, it does not amaze me to hear from my readers on their interest to do similar long hauls. Many of you have followed my narrative on the cross country drive from California to New York and have asked for my tips and suggestions. I have updated the Travel section of photoduniya.com with as much detail as possible. I shall quickly mention a few of the …

From: photoduniya.com
We are on the second day of our cross country winter drive, from California on the West US coast, to New York in the East US coast. It is a total distance of about 3,000 miles, with a minor diversion to Jackson, WY. Here is our planned route for the drive.
Driving Route from California to New York @ photoduniya.com

We have crossed California into Reno, NV on Day 1 and we’ve reached Salt Lake City, UT on Day 2. As I write, it is snowing here and more is …

Having seen both the cities of New York and San Francisco, it’s nice to flavor both of them together! Though, while shooting in the streets, I often get asked “so for a street photographer, which do you think is better?”. Now that is a difficult question with no simple answer. And I do not want to answer either!
 
 
For the advertisers though, the urban complex cosmo audience of both these cities are probably the same.
 
 
Barneys New York @ photoduniya.com
 
 

 
 
The one thing that I do enjoy better in San Francisco is less …

For a long time I have photographed streets of New York City, from the sky scrapers to the amazement of the tourists staring at them. New York City, as I have heard numerous people say, has a charm of it’s own, be it the pizza, the Central Park or the artists sitting alongside the roads. When the days are dominated by busy tourists and performers, the night time New York City had a flavor of it’s own. The dazzling neons of the Broadway is hard to forget. Numerous photographers wait …

On our way from Tahoe this weekend, I found plenty of opportunities to shoot into the rear view mirror for the picture-in-picture effect. The timing was bad – it was 3′o clock in the afternoon, the sun was bold and merciless, right on top and the road was white as snow. But I could not pass on the opportunities to park on the shoulder and shoot a few shots of cars in my mirror.
 

 
Surprisingly, this wasn’t shot with a Nikon! I used a 5MP Samsung point and shoot and then …