FILM NOIR NIGHT FALL

A winter sun-set, over the dark and mysterious waters of the Hudson river.  A view that may have been the last vision seen by the characters Merlin and Cosmos, from my "Acting out" blog-book.

The sentinel-like lanterns glow like ghosts, after midnight in a park in the city.  Strange shadows can be seen acting out their roles and playing the game, amongst the dark corners of the Island-like patch of shady greenery deep in the night.

Smoke that appears to be like a spirit or phantom of the past, spirals up into the city sky from the darkness below the pavement.

A haunting view from a roof-top facing the East river in lower Manhattan.

A frozen Winter Moon, hangs over the city like a ghost that sees all in the dead hours of the night

A lone car passes slowly, and stops in a desolate area under a bridge by the East river.  Only the lunar orb  above knows what may have transpired in those moments during that eerie night.

The World Trade Center glows like a phantom on a luminous Winter night in December of 1999, down by the Hudson river and a windswept, desolate waterfront area of appearances and disappearances in the city.

The skeleton of the entrance to the pier where the survivors of the Titanic were brought back to, stands like a monument to the spirits of Manhattan, past, present and those spirits still to come.

An empty park bench in the ghostly hours of the night, looks like a scene from any film noir movie set in a big city.  It always appears as if something melo-dramatic and strange has, or will happen.  I can still see the characters from my blog-book "Acting Out", Romeo, Miriam and Puck haunting this park late at night.

Dock strip, after midnight , a full Moon.  It truly is a "River of No Return", in many, many ways.

The large white Hydrangeas are illuminated in the nocturnal light of a solitary street lantern in the middle of the night.  The scene is set for  lust, scandal, betrayal, over the top drama and mysterious disappearances in the city.

No, that is not snow on the ground in this eerie portrait of an empty city park at night.  It is actually several inches of green "powder", or pollen from Pagoda trees.  It looks like a scene from the 1944 classic "Curse of the Cat People".  This small urban park took on a ghostly aura that night, with the almost neon-green like snow glistening in the lamp post lights.






Copyright  @ 2015.   All photographs and captions by Fritz Von Ludwigslust.  All Rights Reserved.