Philadelphia

I spent a few hours in Philadelphia last weekend and went straight to Reading Terminal Market, one my favorite places in the world.  I’d used my camera for work on my vacation, so I wasn’t too excited about taking photos.  I forced myself and came up with some of these images.

This next photo is a remake of a photo I took like four or five years ago in Reading Terminal Market.  I only had a 3 megapixel point-and-shoot at the time, and it just didn’t hold up when I tried to print it at a decent size.  Unfortunately this new one can’t compare – the old one was SO much better.  I don’t really know why – I think the old one had a long shutter speed so there was almost a motion to it because the camera’s flash fired.  I didn’t want to fire the flash this time because I was already super conspicuous with my giant camera and lens.  So disappointing!  Maybe some day when I am rich and famous I’ll set up an array of cookie cutters in the studio and get it just right.

I only took about 20 frames in Reading Terminal Market, because I ended up encountering this joyful woman playing classical piano.  I plopped myself down and listened for about half an hour while I let myself decompress for the first time in over three weeks.  It was marvelous.

Outside the market.

And finally some COLOR – chocolate covered marshmallows on a stick!

New York City

This past weekend I met up with Nell and Chidozie in NYC for an engagement shoot (stay tuned!) in Bryant Park.  It was marvelous to be in NYC again although, as usual, I was conflicted.  I know it’s not right for me but I miss it so much!!   It was hot and chaotic and its energy was an inspiration.

I like this next shot because it captures the rare species known as quiet in NYC.

As part of the engagement shoot, we decided to go on the carousel in Bryant Park.  This is a photo of the guy who ultimately kicked me off the carousel (more on that later)!

After the engagement shoot, I had a few minutes to wander around NYC before I had back to my brother’s place in Princeton, NJ.  I headed straight for Times Square (after purchasing my Flight of the Conchords t-shirt at the HBO Store) to check out the new “pedestrian walkway.”

I had such high hopes for this!  I really truly believed that there would be less people, or, the same amount of people but less chaos due to a lack of traffic.  But there was the same amount of chaos + traffic (so traffic apparently still flows east/west so its not truly a walkway) + people sitting in lawn chairs.  It’s nice that there are finally places for people to sit – especially on lawn chairs! – as NYC is notorious for not having enough places to sit.  But I can’t imagine wanting to sit down in Times Square.

That’s about it from NYC.  Photos from Philly soon!

Gloucester Field Trip

I have been working as a teaching assistant for the teen summer photography program at CDIA for the past two weeks.  It’s been so much fun and I’ve met some amazing young photographers.  We went on a field trip to Gloucester last week and I really wish I could post the students’ work since some of it is so much better than what I shot while we were there!   Anyway, check out a few of my favorites from the day!

Field Trip to Gloucester!

I helped out with the teen photo camp at school last week, and it was AWESOME.

Here’s a photo of some of the students during our field trip to Gloucester last week.  More later!

Grand Finale!

It’s been one whole month of toys.  I could probably go on for another month, but all good things must come to an end and it’s time for this project to move on.  I don’t know where it’s going… a book?  A show?  Comic conventions?  I want to take the project somewhere but I’m not sure what format it should take.  If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let me know!

And now… for the grand finale… A Band of Bad Guys!  Skeletor, Hordac, Beast Man and Mer-man.  Awesome.

Thanks for checking out the toys, and I hope you enjoyed them!

M.U.S.C.L.E.

You asked for it, so here’s another!

Two Face

This isn’t a toy from the 80s, because its from Batman: The Animated Series, which I watched in high school. Two Face is, however, a really important toy to me because he was sitting on my desk at my last desk job and reminded me that there are things to love in the world. Like awesome cartoons. This is also the first toy I photographed and I think I have to go back and do it again, but figured I’d put it up anyway!

GI Joe Guy

North End

I caught this moment on my way home from my engagement shoot yesterday.

Grimlock!

To celebrate the apparent mess that is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, here is a Dinobot.