the storied Figaro Café has reopened

August 15, 2024 2 tags

If you pass by the intersection of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets in Greenwich Village, a pretty restaurant glows on its southwest corner. If you click around Figaro Café’s website, you’ll find a claimed established date of 1957, cool black and white photos and the names of purported previous visitors like Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce and Bob Dylan. If you pop in—reservations do not appear to be necessary at this moment, abundant as they are—you might find some reasons to return, though they will not be related to the food. Only those first and third points are relevant to

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How to Take Amazing Travel Portraits

July 12, 2023 2 tags

Travel and portraiture are two separate disciplines that can combine to create beautiful images that tell a story. The key to travel photography is capturing the emotions and beauty of a location. Much of that emotion and beauty is created by the people who live there. Our job as photographers taking travel portraits is to convey both a sense of the location and the character of the person we are shooting. Get it right, and you can go home with some wonderfully emotive images. To take your portraits and people photography a step further, take a

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Salma Hayek Goes Makeup-Free in New Instagram Photos Taken by Her Husband

March 28, 2023 2 tags

“Inhaling the magic of Jordan,” the actress wrote alongside the stunning series of photos François-Henri Pinault/salma hayek Instagram Salma Hayek Salma Hayek Pinault is absolutely glowing. On Wednesday, the Magic Mike: Last Dance actress shared beautiful sunset photos of her vacation in Wadi Rum, Jordan. The three photos of Hayek, which featured the makeup-free actress, were taken by her husband, Kering chairman and CEO François-Henri Pinault. In the three photos, Hayek is seen posing in front of gorgeous red rocks in the background. In the first, her head is tilted up and her eyes are closed. “Inhaling the magic of…

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