JT and Froggy

JT and Froggy

Image by brungrrl
Products used:
Border Templates No. 2 from Designer Digitals
Stacked Frame FREE from Designer Digitals
Old Type Font from Two Peas in Bucket
CK Kit of the Month/Ali Edwards Font

I forget where I got the patterned papers... will have to look those up.

blogged here

Hold on, kids: it's starting to rain, and we gotta run for home!

Image by Ed Yourdon
This was taken on the south side of 72nd Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenue. It wasn't actually raining at this point, but it certainly did look like it was about to start pouring...

As the woman ran by me, she gave me a quizzical look, and said, "I hope you weren't photographing me! I was running!" And I thought, "well, yeah, that's exactly what made the scene so interesting..."

Note: this photo was published in a Jan 15, 2010 blog titled "¿Por qué estar tranquila?" And it was published in a Feb 15, 2010 blog titled "Monday Madness Trekaroos Welcome Rewards." It was also published in a Mar 30, 2010 blog titled "After Baby Beauty Routine: Quick Tips for Effortless Beauty." And it was published in a Jul 7, 2010 Baby Products blog, with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. It was also published in a mid-Oct 2010 "Mountain Buggy Double Strollers" blog, titled "The Bumbleride Indie Twin Double Baby Stroller 2010 IT-111L – Two Children And Happy Parents." And it was published in a Dec 28, 2010 blog titled "Kids in the City."

Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Jan 6, 2011 blog titled "HOJE, AO VER-ME ANGUSTIADA, UM HOMEM DISSE-ME: A URGÊNCIA NÃO EXISTE, EXISTE É GENTE COM PRESSA." And it was published in a Mar 8, 2011 "Mayo Diet" blog titled "Cool Running Tips Images." It was also published in an Apr 2, 2011 blog titled "Locomotion in Humans." And it was published ina Jun 27,2011 blog titled "Invest in a Good Stroller."

Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a Jan 13, 2012 blog titled "Diet/exercise tips for getting off a plateau?" It was also published in a Feb 29, 2012 blog titled "I'm So Glad I'm Not You." And it was published in a May 29, 2012 Orange County Register blog titled "Baby Brain: Expect the Unexpected." And it was published in a Jun 4, 2012 blog titled "Cele mai bune carucioare tip jogging." It was also published in a Jul 28, 2012 blog titled "Nice Parenting Tips Photos."

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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.

As I indicated when I started this project in 2008, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me.

I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.

Thus far, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ...

The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them.

Waking up

Image by fensterbme
Ella waking up in the morning in her bassinet (which she's pretty much outgrown). I have another verison of this photo but at night with some red lights, etc.

This photo was taken with a Canon 5D full frame digital camera with a 15mm f/2.8 fisheye lens sat right inside the top rim of the bassinet, which gives a very 'unique' perspective.

NOTE: This photo made it into Flickr's 'Explore" as one of the top five hundred most interesting photos on a particular day, which makes me somewhat sad as the actual resulting photos didn't make it, ha! You can see all of my photo's that have made it into the Flickr Explore pages here.

Chick photography

Image by kenny_lex
Steffe is taking pictures of a seagull chick who has fallen out of the nest.