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Pete Calandra

@petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com
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I used to be a busy NYC performing musician and media composer, now I take photos in the Hudson Valley and NYC 😉 Orange/BlueSkies Assoc. Prof. ACSM @QueensCollege, CUNY Yamaha Endorsed Musical Artist. Joined BS 11/13/24 linktr.ee/petecalandra

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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 18h
Sunrise looking over the Hudson Valley from the Millbrook trail on The Gunks. #BlueskyMon #Blue #MountainMonday #Photography #HudsonValley #ECK
View looking east from a ridge. On the left, you can see a very green mountain top. On the right you’re looking across the Hudson Valley towards the Hudson River. It’s just before the sunrise and from the horizon you can see the colors going from orange to golden yellow to light blue to dark blue.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 18/10/2026
Scene at lunch yesterday in Ras, an Ethiopian restaurant in Brooklyn. #stunday #classicmono #photography #brooklyn #eck
Seen from the dining area of a restaurant there are assorted small tables with people seated eating and conversing. There are plants hanging from the ceiling on the far right hand wall. There is a mural. Photo is in black-and-white.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 17/10/2026
#walls #blueskyartshow #newyorkcity Play on words on the lower east side. #photography #streetphotography
A slightly battered wall in New York City made of concrete bricks. The color is off-white. The word revolution. Is drawn in capital letters. The letters EVOL are reversed and angled, and painted red to outline the word love
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 15/10/2026
Onstage at Carnegie Hall playing piano with the NY Pops in 2008. #urbangaze #humansofbluesky #musicsky #nowplaying #eck
View of the stage at Carnegie Hall from one of the side suites seating. You’re looking down on the stage with a large orchestra with orange is lighting and I am playing piano seated right by the conductor.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 14/10/2026
#coloraday #redwed red bushes and bricks at this intersection in Brooklyn Heights - I lived with them on Montague St, in a basement down the stairs. #photography #eck #brooklyn
Photo of a street corner in Brooklyn Heights. There was a Paul holding the names of the streets behind. That is a brick building with a big glass awning with some posters showing what the business does. There was some red bushes and the brick
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 11/10/2026
Reflective light patterns on a building adjacent to the High Line in NYC #classicmono #stunday #newyorkcity #photography #eck
Walking on the highline, you can see some underbrush and wild grasses on the bottom of the photo angling up towards the right. There are the backs of some tenement buildings with the largest building having reflective light patterns from a newer glass building out of picture
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 10/10/2026
The album art for a piece I wrote called Lost Island. This is on a stormy morning in Lake Worth Beach Florida. #blueskyartshow #weather #photography #eck
a pier on the left side of the image with large waves to it's right. The sky is dark clouds as this was a very stormy morning.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 08/10/2026
From the archives. Lo Res Phone Video excerpt from a performance in 2004. Playing some world jazz fusion with Bill Buchen on Tablas and Dale Kleps on Bass Clarinet at the 6andB Gardens in the East Village. #urbangaze #humansofbluesky #nowplaying #eastvillage #musicsky #jazz #newyorcity
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 07/10/2026
Fall views. Some nice colors including some red leaves. #coloraday #redwed #photography #fallcolors #rvk
View of a carriage path on the left with colorful trees to the left of the path. On the path are colorful leaves. To the right are pastelish colored grasses. In the distance there is some morning dew and the Gunks. The sky is cloudy.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 06/10/2026
1) A Thread: Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg and Me, a story. #thecampfire In the winter of 1986, I was the music director and pianist/conductor for the original Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors in the East Village. One Sunday, between shows, I wandered into a used record store.
Larry, Stomu and me, Southampton late 1990s. Larry's silhouette from To Tell The Truth, 1960's. Don Cherry,  Larry and me at The Continental Divide in the east village, 1988 or so. Larry's painting of Allen...
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 04/10/2026
Fall scenes in the Hudson Valley/Catskills. #Stunday #Landscape #Photography #ECK.
Morning view on the River to Ridge Trail. The trail cuts down the middle of the photo and arcs to the right there are trees on the left and the grass has an orange/ocher Hugh. There are streaky clouds in the sky and you can see the early morning sun.Walking on the Ashokan RT. The trail cuts down the right side of the image on the left side of the trail is a stone wall. There is a wooden split rail fence on the right on the other side of the stone wall is the reservoir you can see on the horizon trees, turning colors in the background you can see overlook mountain. The sky is a very rich blue with big puffs of clouds.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 02/10/2026
Fall morning in the Hudson Valley. #Scape #Landscape #Morning #ECK.
Looking uphill on the river to Ridge Trail in New Paltz. It’s early morning. You can see the sun behind the trees the trees line both sides of the trail with beautiful fall colors.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 01/10/2026
At Dosa Hut in Flushing NY. So good. #urbangaze
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 30/09/2026
As seen in Cleveland. #windowsonwednesday #classicmono #photography #eck
Portrait view from inside the Cleveland Arcade. You can see a huge skylight and all the ornate art deco stylings of the internal architecture.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 28/09/2026
The Gunks and SkyTop at sunset. #mountainmonday #landscape #photography #newyork
Dark mountain ridge in shadows with Skytop tower in silhouette. The early evening sky has clouds reflecting reds, orange and yellows.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 27/09/2026
Dreamy improvised track set to an incredibly vibrant early morning scene on Lake Worth Beach. #Sunday #Scape #StunDay #Sunrise #Ocean #Photography #Music #MusicSky #NowPlaying #AmbientMusic #OnlyBeautifulThings.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 26/09/2026
#lights illuminating the pavement in Hudson yards. #BlueSkyArtShow #Light #ClassicMono #Photography #NewYorkCity #ECK.
Portrait oriented, photo of the pedestrian area in Hudson yards New York at twilight. Everything is dark except an area of the pavement that is reflecting the light from elevated lamps. The pavement are multicolored bricks. there are buildings in the background and some foliage from some trees
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 25/09/2026
Looking from the Palisades south down, the Hudson passed the George Washington Bridge towards Manhattan. #scape #Cityscape #Landscape #Photography #NewYorkCity #ECK
Colorful late afternoon view South along the Hudson towards New York City. On the right are the Palisades with the leaves turning autumn colors the Hudson is a rich blue color with a few freight chips. The skyline of the city has an orange tent to it from the setting sun and the sky has a few clouds in it.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 24/09/2026
NY, just like I pictured it. #UrbanGaze #ECK #Photography #StreetPhotography #NewYorkCity #ClassicMono.
Photo of Times Square in New York City in the late afternoon/early evening there are people, buses, buildings, and general busyness as typically found in this area
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 23/09/2026
Photo from about 2009 of my old dog Sparky sitting by the intracoastal in Florida one morning. #ColorADay #redwed #DogsOfBlueSky #Dog #Sunrise #OnlyBeautifulThings #Photography #ECK
Profile view of a dog sitting on a cement wall overlooking a body of water towards the sunrise. The sky is incredibly colorful with reds blues, purples, and yellows. The water is reflecting the red.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 20/09/2026
Some spacey, funky jazz on 2 Yamaha reface keyboards. #StunDay #MusicSky #NowPlaying #Jazz #JazzFunk #ElectronicMusic.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 19/09/2026
Early morning golden sunlight. #BlueSkyArtShow #Golden #Photography #NaturePhotography #ECK.
Photo of very high grass that looks golden in the morning sun. There is a gate by the road. There are two stop signs by the road.  one has golden sunlight reflecting off of it. There are green trees in the back and early morning blue sky. This is the river to Ridge Trail in New Paltz, New York
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 18/09/2026
Harlem Meer on the north of Central Park #scape #cityscape #classicmono #photography #eck
panoramic b and w photo of the lake. there are a few buildings visible in the distance. The sky is very cloudy. Stitched together from several photos.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 17/09/2026
Crossing the Harlem River on MetroNorth heading into the city. #urbangaze #photography #eck
At the bottom of the photo are train tracks on a bridge with the Harlem River leading to the TriBoro bridge. There are buildings on either side of the river. The sky is cloudy.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 15/09/2026
Rock sculptures along the west side highway pedestrian path near the George Washington Bridge. #rockintuesday #photography #newyorkcity #eck #tidesouttuesday
Photograph of various tall and skinny rock sculptures. Multiple rocks balanced upon each other. This is on the shores of the Hudson River in the background. You can see the George Washington Bridge and the sky is cloudy with streaks of blue.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 13/09/2026
Except from Thursday eve. With Sara Espinosa on vocals. An old Nina Simone song. #stunday #nowplaying #jazz #jazzvocals #jazzpiano #musicsky
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 12/09/2026
Undulating bokeh balls on my front walkway after an ice storm #blueskyartshow #undulating #photography #eck
View from ground level of the walkway from the street to my house after an ice storm. Reflecting light is bouncing off the ice. You can see my stoop and the bottom of my front door towards the back of the image.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 11/09/2026
Loose onion trying desperately to stay out of someone’s dinner in nyc. #urbangaze #streetphotography #photography #eck
An onion on the street in focus. Asphalt all around it. On the left, you can see the curb and the background is quite out of focus.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 09/09/2026
#windowsonwednesday #photography #eck
Image of a T-shirt in a window with someone sitting in a meditation position with the words “let that shit go” printed above it reflecting in the window is the sky street signs and other things
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 08/09/2026
1) 60 years ago today, a television show debut. The title of the first episode was ‘the man trap’. The show would boldly proclaim that it would go where no human had ever gone before. An optimistic post-scarcity future. #bluetue #coloraday
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 07/09/2026
Chromatic Descending Mondays. Happy Labor Day, I am in 2 unions. Local 802 AFM (1984) and PSC CUNY (2011).... #laborday #nowplaying #musicsky
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 05/09/2026
Except from last night’s gig in Beacon NY . Riders into Superstition. #nowplaying #livemusic #hudsonvalley #piano #vocal
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 05/09/2026
#minimal people on the LIRR platform in Flushing NY. #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #NewYorkCity #ECK.
Photograph of the westbound
Platform of the Long Island railroad station at Main St., Flushing. Going down the lower center of the image is the platform with a yellow stripe on the left-hand side with one person towards the end of the platform. There are various lights. There’s a clock with the TrainTime above it and other train station accoutrements across the tracks. There is an eastbound train. You can see the outline of some buildings and some trees and the sky is magenta.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 04/09/2026
Comes in colors everywhere. #scape #skyscape #rainbow #eck
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 03/09/2026
The street in the city wears rain woven silk. #PalacesAndGardens #PalaceRunway #ECK #RainPhotography #Reflections #AbstractPhotography #UrbanAbstract #WaterReflections #StreetPhotography #FineArtPhotography #ColorPhotography #TexturePhotography #RainyDay #PhotographicArt
Abstract photograph of a rain puddle reflecting colorful buildings. Ripples and concentric rings from falling raindrops distort the reflections into shimmering bands of pink, blue, turquoise, gold, and white against dark wet pavement, creating the appearance of textured silk fabric.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 02/09/2026
Reflections off of a window in Midtown Manhattan. #WindowsOnWednesday #ClassicMono #Photography #StreetPhotography #ECK.
Looking at a window in Manhattan. Behind the window is an artwork that you can see the outline of reflecting in the windows at the bottom of the photo is the sidewalk on the left-hand side of the photo is a woman walking almost out of the image wearing a backpack. You could also see street signs buildings and another person right in the center of the photo the images in b and w
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 01/09/2026
View from Santa Cruz Island towards the other Channel Islands. #tidesouttuesday #rockintuesday #coloraday #bluetue #photography #eck
Looking south from an elevated point down towards scorpion Beach on the left. Beyond that is the pacific ocean on the horizon in the distance we see some other islands and the sky is hazy.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 30/08/2026
Excerpt from an improvised piece recorded 10 years ago in my NYC apartment. #stunday #music #nowplaying #artist #jazz #piano
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 29/08/2026
OK, another #BlueskyArtShow #Summer #Green view on my run this morning along the river to Ridge Trail in New Paltz NY #Photography #Landscape #Nature #ECK
Two photos of sunflowers. The top one has sky top visible in the right side and the bottom one has the moon visible on the upper left side. There are telephone poles and utility wires behind the flowers.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 29/08/2026
#summer near Millbrook, NY. #green grass and trees with rich thick clouds #photography #newyork #eck #blueskyartshow
in the foreground is a gently sloping field with fruit trees. On the horizon are taller trees of various heights. The sky is filled with blue-grey and white clouds
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 28/08/2026
Pacific Ocean from Ragged Point, Big Sur CA. #scape #seascape #classicmono #photography #eck
view of the ocean late afternoon. This is a b and w foto. The water is black with several white spots from where the sun was able to shine thru the dark clouds in the sky. The horizon as about midway up the photo and has a long whitish streak where the sun meets the water. The sky is full of dark clouds with a whiteish opening in the center of the clouds.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 27/08/2026
4 photos from yesterday's visit to NYC. #urbangaze #humansofbluesky #streetphotography #architecture #photography #eck #classicmono
Downtown Manhattan. B&W sculpture silhouette against architecture/sky.Midtown Manhattan. B&W layered street/window reflection.Downtown Manhattan. B&W close study of the Oculus ribs with a tall building behind the ribs. Downtown Manhattan. One World Trade with  huge black diagonal construction beams.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 26/08/2026
Woodcat Coffee in echo lake, Los Angeles area. #classicmono #windowsonwednesday
Looking out thru the window of the cafe onto the street. There are some flowers inside and cars, the street and other businesses on the other side of the street. Black and white portrait orientation.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 26/08/2026
National Dog Day. My last 2 beautiful pups, Pookie and Sparky. I miss them both dearly. #dogsofbluesky #photography #dog
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 26/08/2026
Took an early eve yoga class on that pavilion and was treated to a rainbow after it rained a bit. This is at the Mohonk Preserve. #photography #rainbow #scape #photography #onlybeautifulthings
Photo of a vibrant rainbow arching thru the sky behind some trees. On the right is a wooden pavilion and on the left a grassy field.,the sky is blue with clouds.,
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 25/08/2026
This is Sparky, our mutt that is part Rat Terrier. He was an incredible pup and passed over the rainbow bridge 11 years ago #terriertuesday
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 25/08/2026
#tidesouttuesday #rockintuesday #coloraday #bluetue Scorpion Beach at Santa Cruz Island off the coast of California near Ventura 2 weeks ago. #photography #eck
Portrait oriented view from the Rocky Beach on Santa Cruz Island. at the bottom of the photo is the rocky beach with the shoreline cutting from the left moving diagonally up towards the right a little bit the water is blue with small ripples in it. To the left is a small power boat diagonally to the right of that a mountain side ascends with a steep slope from the middle of the picture up towards the right hand side. Across from that cliff are too smaller islands, and in back of that in the distance, you can see the outline of a larger island. The sky is blue with white streaky clouds.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 24/08/2026
View of lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Waterfront. #blueskymonday #blue #cityscape #photography #newyorkcity #eck
View across the water towards lower Manhattan from Brooklyn. There are rows of pilings rising from the water to the right is a grassy knoll rising out out of the water. To the far left is a snippet of a repurposed pier that is now an athletic field. You can see many skyscrapers and lower Manhattan starting from the center of the image moving to the right the sky has a yellow-orange hue close to the horizon that transitions through clouds to a blue sky. This photo was taken late in the afternoon.
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 23/08/2026
One for generation Jones. 😉. #musicsky #nowplaying #classicrock
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Pete Calandra @petecalandramusic.bandcamp.com · 23/08/2026
#stunday panoramic view of hidden valley at Joshua Tree Nat Park last week. #photography #landscapephotography #eck
Photo stitched together in Lightroom from 4 photos. Nikon Z7II 24-120 lens. The photo captures larger rocks on the left and around the back with dirt, smaller rocks and some vegetation filling out the rest.
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