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Who Doesn’t Like Hydrangeas?

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

They’re beautiful, they’re big, and they change color according to the acidity levels in the soil. And they’re fun to play around with in an arrangement. In light of the last post being so morbid, I thought I’d share a pretty picture of the flower arrangement I made today.

I used blue hydrangeas, white snapdragons, waxflower, orange roses and magnolia leaves. This is one of my favorite ones so far because of the colors, especially the way the waxflower looks against the blues in the hydrangea.

Flowers are fabulous.

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Terrariums!

Monday, May 24th, 2010

I have been working at Rose Red & Lavender since the beginning of April and not a day goes by there where I don’t learn something new and wonderful. One of the most recent projects I’ve been working on is making lots and lots of light bulb terrariums.

I started by learning how to make a larger terrarium (not pictured because it sold before I could snap a photo!). They are layered and it’s good to start with some rocks. After that, we added spanish moss, and a pretty good layer of it because it does compress quite a bit. Then a little soil and plants of your choosing! I have been using dwarf plants like rabbit’s foot fern and blue baby tears, and of course I’ve added miniature garden gnomes and tiny dinosaurs where I can.

The light bulb terrariums are a whole other ball game. They are so small you can really only use one plant. I hardly add any soil to them because it’s tiny and the inside of the glass gets dirty fast. Hollowing out the bulb was a challenge at first, but Kimberly (the garden shop’s owner) invested in a Dremel set which made the process sooo much easier and faster. Let me tell you, it is no easy feat to squeeze those plants through the bottom of a light bulb. It’s like building a ship in a bottle.

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Bodega Wine Bar

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Not long ago I was asked to take some photographs of recently-opened Bodega Wine Bar on Troutman and St. Nicholas in Bushwick. Woodworker extraordinaire Ted Kilcommons did a lot to design and build out the new bar and was looking for photographs to capture everything from details to the atmosphere.

Here are a few I liked from the first session of shooting. These were all taken around 5pm, with lots of natural sunlight coming through the windows. I used a lot of long exposures to capture the light as it fell across the wood, which gave me really great tones and emphasized the texture in everything.


This image is of Ben Warren, one of the owners of the Bodega, and also the bartender. His partner is Gina Leone.

Ted and I decided after looking at the first set that we needed a couple more in the evening. Something to really get the atmosphere and the whole look of the place. These are the two gems we ended up with.

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Rose Red & Lavender

Friday, May 14th, 2010

In light of last weekend being Mother’s Day and the fact that it finally feels like spring again in New York, I want to share some of the photos I’ve been taking while working at Rose Red & Lavender.

Rose Red & Lavender is an independently run florist/garden supply shop/place where you can find unique and awesome things that you will love. Photographing some of the floral arrangements has been really fun for me, both because I don’t often have an opportunity to take beautiful photos of flowers and because I’ve been able to find a few spots in the shop with really amazing and romantic lighting.

Here are some of the bouquets I’ve photographed, mostly over Mother’s Day weekend. Everything that comes out of this shop is gorgeous (and often organic or home grown) so if you’re looking for anything plant related…. it’s on Metropolitan between Leonard and Manhattan (off the Graham L stop).

One last thing I might as well mention here – this is the bouquet I sent my mom on Mother’s day (she sent me a photo of it along with a picture of our cat). I ordered these from Bows and Arrows in Dallas who were recommended to me from a friend I work with at the coffee shop. The girl who helped me on the phone was so sweet and I think the arrangement looked super cool.

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Northeast Kingdom

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

At the end of April I did some work for the Northeast Kingdom, my favorite neighborhood restaurant (and possibly my favorite restaurant in New York). They wanted current photos to better capture the details and atmosphere of the place as well as behind the scenes photos in the kitchen with Chef Kevin A and his awesome staff hard at work.

Below are a few of my personal favorites from the day. Everyone there was a pleasure to work with and if you haven’t yet been to the Northeast Kingdom, get to it!

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Washington, DC

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

A week ago I took the bus from Penn Station to DC. It was sunny and warm (exactly the opposite of the past few days in New York) which made for a great opportunity to just walk around and enjoy the weekend.

I went down to see Sabina, a very good friend of mine, who doesn’t live there but happened to be in Washington, and to see Ann who graciously allowed me to stay in her fabulous house near Adam’s Morgan. (I did also get to spend some time with a few other great friends – you know who you are :) )

Getting more to the point: while we were out and about, it struck me how many coffee shops, restaurants, corner stores that we tried to go to were actually shut down and boarded up. Mayorga Coffee, for example, used to be in the Tivoli Theater in the center of Columbia Heights, but there was hardly a trace of it when we walked over. The next closest coffee shop could hardly compare without even seating much less the comfortable and relaxed atmosphere that Mayorga gave. It was such a unique space it was hard for me to see it go.

I don’t have a recent photo of the theater/coffee shop in disrepair, but I do have a few of DC buildings, the last of which shows just a fraction of the boarded up windows we passed. Following that are a few shots of Sabina goofing around in the city…

This first one was taken in Bethesda, and in fact the blue building that you can only see a sliver of at the bottom was completely abandoned. It used to house a bar and a separate comedy club, only the skeletons of which are left, though a friend did tell us that until a few days before you could still see the tables and chairs and all the liquor was abandoned on the shelves.

I don’t actually think this General Electric plant was deserted, but it sure did look it, and it was in the Navy Yard which is pretty desolate in and of itself anyway.

As we walked around the Convention Center, we saw that this whole block of buildings had boarded up windows, and then around the corner the next block looked the same. I don’t even know what they used to be, homes maybe.

Now to the more light-hearted stuff…

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Armory Show

Monday, March 8th, 2010

This past Sunday was the last day of the Armory Show on the piers and I managed to round up Tim and Reese to join me for a walk through some of the booths. There was definitely some interesting work on display, but I have to admit, I was slightly more interested in trying to take a few photos of the attendees and atmosphere of the fair. Here are a few…

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Snow Day

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The east coast has been hit by some crazy snow storms this winter, giving me great excuses to go outside and take some photos! This first one was taken from inside the Wyckoff Starr, my personal favorite coffee shop in Bushwick (the same one, coincidentally, where I find myself working on Saturday mornings).

These next two were taken near the Lorimer stop on the L train, while I was walking to my internship. I particularly like the two through the window because of the guy walking in the snow and the car that looks like it might be made out of cardboard.

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Brittain Ashford

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Last sunday I had an opportunity to photograph Brittain Ashford, an amazing singer/songwriter who until a few months ago was living in Brooklyn. She was only here for a few days and was staying at the Petri Space, a great performance space in Bushwick with two walls of windows letting in natural light. So, of course, we did the shoot there.

I shot mostly digital, but borrowed my roommate’s enormous Pentax medium format camera for a roll of black and white and a roll of color slide. These are just a couple of my favorite portraits from the day, and I still need to process the slide film, so more on those later!

Below are a couple photos of the fabulous duo Brittain Ashford and Caitlin Steitzer, sometimes known as BCAT & CTOWN.

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