The Paramount, in Red — Times Square, New York

The stepped Art Deco Paramount Building in Times Square lit red and gold at night, its clock tower against a black sky, the NYPD sign at street level, wet pavement reflecting the neon and a few pedestrians and a police officer in a hi-vis vest crossing the plaza. — The Paramount, in Red
Times Square, New York · February 2021
1D X Mark II, 16 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/250 of a second, ISO 1000

Red, gold, and wet underfoot.

The Paramount is one of the few buildings in Times Square that looks better than its billboards, so I gave it the whole left side of the frame and let the screens crowd in from the right. Wet pavement doubles the light. Winter, a snowbank or two along the kerb, and not many people out, which for Times Square counts as empty.

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