Snowing today in NYC

Unbelievable snowy fairytale happened today in NYC. Adults like with kids trying to catch snowflakes with their tongues :) Dogs in colorful coats wandering through snowfall and warm white silence of Central Park.
I love such weather even if my feet are wet. It reminds me of childhood. I'm happy again.

Runners with dogs in Central Park, Upper East Side

Walking dogs on UES, Manhattan, New York

Urban view

It's one of the best spots to look at shiny NYC's skyline - across the river from Manhattan you got to Brooklyn. There is a beautiful pier with water taxis and infamous Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. And there is that view :).

The city moments

I was shooting another family portrait photography session in Central Park yesterday and just stuck there afterwards for a while. Crowds were enjoying nice weather and it was that amazing feeling of NYC's craziness at the same time, which I love :)

Most colorful person in the city

I see this guy in every NYC's parade. You name it - he is there. First time I met him at Easter parade in our very first year here, in New York City. Then Saint Patrick, Halloween, Mermaid - he is always around or in the parade :)

He was circling with those jars on the top of his head for a while

At first there was a bunch of guys dancing together, circling around and doing crazy stuff on their roller-blades. But every year their number were growing and suddenly a couple of years ago I saw a poster read that they are now an association. And they were fenced :) It didn't change the thing though. They are still great at having fun.

Public art installation on the streets of New York City

Walking to the subway by w46th St I stumbled upon these art installation. Quite catching and I haven't seen it before. Just took a few snapshots as memorabilia.

Taschen New York: Portrait of a City Exhibition

Great book! Just great book! Must have book :)
Great party! You shouldn't have missed it :)
See how much fun was it:

There were plenty of books to look through, great folks to mingle with, open bar, and nice prints on the walls.

Now this is my brand new t-shirt I designed :) after 3rd drink!
Just kidding :)
Photo made by amazing guys working at Levi's workshop.

Everyone was doing their way around NYC's skyline to get it printed on a t-shirt later.

Jumping or kissing? I may say only that at the end of the night I found a t-shirt with these kissing guys lying on my photo-bag! Have no idea! Honestly!

They got their own t-shirts I believe. Besides the fun they had.

He just stepped out of the picture I think. Didn't see how he walked in the workshop anyway.

This moment just caught my eye by the movements happening in all 3 plans.

Am I handsome! Yeaaaah :)

Central Park ZOO ???

The best thing about New York City is it's people for sure. You might meet something absolutely unexpected and crazy in the middle of the day just walking any place of the city.
For example these guys were walking among huge crowd of strollers, joggers, bikers, natives and tourists.

Nice weather, crowd of New Yorkers and tourists enjoying the nice autumn weather in New York

And this creative couple we had met actually 5 min before.

Shooting movie on the run at Central Park

Orange city mood

Just a couple of glimpses :) while walking in Lower Manhattan on a lovely Sun morning.

Double-decker for Mersedeses at 3rd World Trade Center building.

Luxury Mersedes passengers cars as passengers on double-decker

 Did she realize this match of colors? I guess not :)

I think she had very bright mood

Family photo session in Central Park

Another family photography session in Central Park on lovely summer day with a beautiful princess Aidan and her parents Melissa and Rob.

Portrait of a little girl sitting on rocks in Central Park

Portrait image of a redhead girl looking at her mother, hugging and smiling. 

Redhead girl in white princess dress running on a meadow by the woods in Central Park NYC

5-minute headshot

At the end of another very long day I still had some juice and lights set ready :) And there were a couple of cool guys helping us with running the photoshoot whom I wanted to photograph. Luckily for me they were interested.

So I just used one rather big softbox for a swift 3-minutes sessions for both Anvil and Carl. I kinda like the result ;)

Fashion lookbook - great team of professionals

It was a very long and fast-moving fashion lookbook photoshoot. The team was working together for the first time and I hope we will have a chance to work again, I like the result very much!

Thanks to all:

Make-up and Hair - Wenya Chang - amazing work, all images you'll see here are NOT touched for any skin or hair issues (and mostly straight out of the camera, just basic level/contrast/sharpening adjustments). During the whole shoot Wenya was all the time doing the right stuff in the right moment. No need to ask her - she fixes a problem before you see it.

Model - Micaela Piccolo - extremely professional and hard-working, I admire her because she almost couldn't stand at the end of the very hard day but was able to smile! And what a smile she has!!! :)

And to me she has that look of Monica Bellucci - check the pictures below for yourself ;)

Photo books in easy way

Great news to all photographers and other creative folks - now we have another way to showcase our photo books made via Blurb.com on-line - they just came up with a new fine widget.
It's easy to integrate it into your photography web-site, photo blog etc. You may post it to your Facebook account in just one click.
Below you may see how it works - there is my fine art / documentary book about Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in NYC.

Boo To You! by Alex Kotlik | BOOK INFO

Bryant Park Holiday cards with my photograph of 2 chairs in the park

I love Bryant Park in every season. I love it most in spring when daffodils blooming and everything around smells new life.
But I like it in the winter not less. It's just different. You could feel more attached to the place when less people around you. For me it's more calm, lonely there in the winter.

And I am a little bit proud that I was able to capture that feeling and the beauty of the park in a photograph which were chosen by Bryant Park Corporation for their annual Holiday Cards.
I believe it's quite compelling example of street-life photography. A silent dialog of 2 chairs that left behind... Ghosts of people passed by some time ago... They are together and they are alone, conscious and abandoned...

You may see more of my street-life photography of New York on my web-site and there are some documentary photography, photo stories and series as well.