The main photo event of the year in New York

Says blogger samsebeskazal: "That's exactly what one would think, looking at the hundreds of people with cameras who gathered a few days ago around 42nd Street."

(Total 18 photos)

1. So why did they all come there?

2. Why did the crowd gather on the bridge that goes over the street?

3. What are they all waiting for?

4. What are they looking at?

5. Why do they climb onto the roofs and trunks of other people's cars, push through them for the sake of a better view?

6. What is photographed every second?

7. Why is the crowd on the double solid line?

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9. Why do more and more people come?

10. Why did the photographer put a tripod in the middle of the road with the risk of being run over by a car?

11. Even police officers passing by ask the same question: why?

12. What is the occasion? Second Coming of Christ? Alien landing? A long-awaited visit from Godzilla?

13. Everything is much simpler. Four times a year in New York there is a phenomenon called Manhattanhenge. It's when the sun sets right in the middle of the streets that go from the Hudson to the East River. It turns out something like this.

14. Or this.

15. Or this one. All photos with the sun are not mine. Found on flickr among thousands of similar ones.

16. And for some reason it is believed that everyone should take a picture of this case. Which, like, is really cool. News anchors are already choking in delight about this wonderful view. MUST SEE headings in guidebooks are getting fatter and fatter. Therefore, every year the crowd of photographers is more and more. The best places take many hours. I think that the people standing in the first row on the bridge came in the morning. A long wait is not in vain, and at the moment when the sun appears in the middle of the street, people raise their cameras, spoiling each other's view, jumping, pushing, throwing themselves under cars, blocking roads, and are ready to go to great lengths for the cherished shot. I am sincerely surprised that there are no victims, such intensity of passions at that moment.

17. Badikov and I went there not behind the scenes with the sun, but to look at this photo circus from the side. And it was fun, although the faces of most of those who came in advance were rather sad.

18. The fact that there will be no sun became clear to all normal people a few hours before sunset. The entire lower half of the sky was covered with dense gray clouds, but this still did not prevent thousands of people from coming to known points and standing there in the hope that a ray would suddenly come out. The ray did not appear, and from the outside, all this action looked somewhat crazy. There is a huge crowd with photographic equipment and every second takes pictures of 42nd Street and the gray sky above it. Someone runs out to the middle, someone lies down on the asphalt, someone even launched a drone to get the best view. In this case, nothing happens. Street, houses, cars. Everything is as usual. Passers-by turn around, cars honk and stop, drivers turn their heads and do not understand what has happened. As a result, everyone stubbornly stood until the appointed hour and parted with a sour mine on their faces in order to return to this place the next day, take the sun and post such a photo.

I sort of explained everything, but I still don't understand it myself. For what? Photos of me and Badikov.