Empire!

I took this photo with an old, old digital camera I had. I decided to look through the memory card before tossing it out when I found this. I don't even remember shooting it. Passing moments in the big city.

AMBIENT FRIGHT : ghosts....of christmas past?

Here's my first submission! Quite simply, this was taken at our office holiday dinner* a couple of years ago. Technically its a differnt holiday but I think it can pass for both creepy and festive, yes?

*This was a fight to the death between my friend The Vegan vs. myself The Raw Steak Carnivore –coincidentally I thought it was interesting that her battle technique was to apparently try to bite my face off....or something.*

ProductSuperiorJenn, ZeroDaze and I made some time to ride our bikes out to Coney Island a month or two ago. While quite a departure from its former glory (Thanks Thor Equities! It's really great that instead of all the amusement rides at Coney Isle and the Revere Sugar refinery in Red Hook we get to look at a bunch of weed filled, empty, and patently undevelopable lots!) there were still more interesting things to look at than I had time to devote. It ranks as one of my favorite photo outings in the city and in general an amazing day. Shots with D300, 70-300VR and 50mm 1.8 lenses.

Abstract Boats

I'm going to take a break from Alaska and put up a few photos from our trip to the Thousand Islands NY which occurred just days before we hopped the plane to Anchorage. Both places revolve around boating: Alaska- fishing, Thousand Islands- the pleasure variety.

These photos were taken in the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY. It is easily as cool as it sounds.

Redwood: Abandoned Barns

Boldt Castle

Just got back from a couple of days in Redwood, NY and the Thousand Islands (of salad dressing fame). We have loads of photos but I thought I'd quickly post one up from Boldt Castle which is one of the more notable landmarks in the area.

An added note: Productsuperiorjenn and I are departing on our first trip to Alaska later this afternoon. During our trip we hope to make frequent posts in the evening as availability of wifi allows. Hopefully, all will work out according to plan and we'll have some exciting photos to share! We wish you all could join us but at the very least maybe we'll help to make your work day a little bit more enjoyable.

Night and Day

Four photos of midtown Manhattan shot from the same balcony at different times: two photos during the day in a snowstorm, two photos about fifteen minutes after sunset.

I might add that at both times it was damn cold. The evening I took the night shots it was around fifteen degrees with at least a thirty mile an hour wind. Couple that with being on a forty fifth floor balcony in the tallest building in the near vicinity and you are guaranteed to be windburned and have snot frozen all over your face. Ah...good times!

All were shot hand held on my D300 with the 16-85 VR DX. I braced myself against the walls/ railings to steady the night shots.

Just another day in BLKYN

While driving

Admit it—you're guilty of taking random snap shots while driving or in a moving car. Fortunately for everyone involved, these were taken while I rode as passenger around upstate New York a summer or so ago. The proof is in a peek of the car window edge or that pesky side view mirror, inevitably containing the sharpest portion of the photo.

All were taken with a Canon SD700, car speed around 60mph, at various times of day, eastern standard.

The Highline

ProductSuperiorJenn, zerodaze, and I were lucky enough to be able to take a walk through the just completed first section of the High Line park in the meat packing district just two days after it officially opened to the public. I say lucky because we were greeted with an absence of screaming people formed into block long lines, an almost empty park, a spectacular sky, and just enough time to finish walking through before it poured.

Selling.

Katie & Steve's Wedding

So this post is tied to a sunset photo I did previously (Sunset & Silhouette 2). Taken at same location and night, these are photos from Matt's sister's wedding. I'm not a wedding photog (or a professional one at that) but I really liked these. I thought they were really nice moments which I was lucky enough to be around for, and I thought the softness and the atmosphere of the evening was nicely captured. The 2nd one is a little grainy but I was sitting far away and trying to zoom in with no flash –so I'm still pretty happy with it. I still think it was a nice moment to capture.

Bride pinning boutonniere for her father


A nice quiet moment during the night

Cruise liner in the Hudson

Thought this photo would be a good change of pace as it was shot not with my DSLR, but with my Blackberry Curve camera phone. Yes, those spots up top are likely pocket lint but it's one of my favorite pictures because it captures what's fun for me about photography- sometimes you do everything right and it turns out all wrong. Sometimes you look out the window on a dreary day and take a photo with your crappy cameraphone and it turns out all right. You never can tell.

Towers

The series of architectural post have inspired me to break out of my shell and finally post on Le Clique. Here's a shot I took a couple of years ago on the west side of Manhattan.

NYC light experiment

John's last post below this inspired me (and refreshed my memory since I'd forgotten) to dig up this shot I took years ago. It was when I'd just gotten a new camera and was eager to see how it did with night time shots etc. So I ended up experimenting at night out the apartment window of Kips Bay Towers.