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June 21, 2007
Brooklyn Bridge continued
Just some more photos from the day I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge.
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June 18, 2007
City Slickers Continue...
This is my Basketball team that I played on the last year and a half. This season I decided not to play to take a break. I'll be spending time in Florida and getting some home projects together in preparations for baby Jouvert. Last night they played the first game of the season and got a win! I'm happy for them and will try to check out a game or two this season. Good Luck guys keep up the good work!!
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June 13, 2007
Brooklyn Bridge
Last week I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge one day after work and these are some of the photos that I took. I've been over the Brooklyn Bridge many many times but I believe this was my first time to walk over the bridge.
Then this week I rode bike to work for the first time this season and coming home I take the Brooklyn Bridge(going to work I take the Manhattan Bridge.) I noticed that the painted lines that separate the walking side from the biking side had just been repainted.
Some people might be looking for other photos on my photoblog. Sometimes I post things right away, other times I post them later and sometimes I don't post them at all. I'm not sure why this happens sometimes. In life sometimes I feel like there isn't enough time to do everything.
Oh well I will try to post my Dance Africa weekend photos soon. As well I have some more photos that I took this day on the Bridge. I feel that these that I post today are more representative of the Bridge itself the next group I feel will be more representative of the people walking, running and biking across the bridge.
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June 03, 2007
Welcome (back) to the Bronx, My Mofo Martin
My friend Martin Fuchs from Vienna, Austria is visiting the Bronx again. If you click on his name anywhere on this posting you can check out his photoblog. On the day of these pictures we went out shooting. There is a sign when you enter the Bronx from the Triborough Bridge that says : Welcome to the Bronx. It lights up after dark in red neon. Martin mentioned taking a photo of this sign and if I could take him there to get a good shot of it. I said that he couldn't go there with out me because I've been wanting to take a photo of that sign for the longest. So we set out to meet up and photograph this sign.
We walked around and tried to get a place that had a good angle of this sign and couldn't. I just took this photo of that sign just incase that would be the best spot we could find that day. It turned out that it would be. We asked these guys that worked as security guards on this open lot next to an old factory of some sought just across from Randal's Island, but they couldn't let us on the lot. Martin took down "the bosses" name and number and will follow that lead to get permission to shoot the sign from that spot.
The next morning remembering that Martin also had mentioned shooting from the roof tops of Co-Op City I gathered some information and we were up on the roof tops shooting away. Again I shot a few shots of which here is one of them but I hope to go up another time and shoot better ones.
In the other photos you see Martin using a Hasselblad, medium format camera. The film is expensive and it brought about a conversation with Martin about watching him shoot with it. Each shot is carefully measured, takes concentration, and care not only because the cost of the film but shooting under those circumstance, slow shutter speeds he has to take his time even use a tripod sometimes. I remember even using my dad's 35mm Canon when I didn't have much money and black and white film was expensive for me being a student and not working. I'd by rolls of 24 or 36 exposures or when I was using bulk film I'd have about 30 exposures a role. But I remember how precious each shot was. Now it seems we've loss that preciousness of each photo snapped. Not to mention the time between shooting and seeing the finished product. Sometimes in the dark room sometimes in the mail and sometimes at the foto processor shop. I remember feeling man I think I took some good photos today. Today there is still that magic but I know that if I fill up my 2 gig memory card that I have two more 1 gig cards and even then a half gig card as backups.
Any how I look forward to hanging out some more with Martin and shooting in the Bronx or NYC.
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June 01, 2007
Bam Fire Drill
Adam
Dani, Danny, Cynthia
Lucas
Rich
Ramzi
So today we had a fire drill at BAM for those that don't know BAM stands for Brooklyn Academy of Music <--click there and see our website. I thought it was a nice photo op and I shot around and I was really happy. I have a new lens, 50mm f/1.4 I love it! Before this I'd only rented other lenses and I always feel like I have a new camera when I use new lenses. I love the depth of field that i get now.
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