Today is labor day. In honor of labor day I’m going to share with you three labor day photos.
Travis & Brad at Life Cafe.
Tim in our backyard.
Heart-shaped Elephant Ear’s I planted last month.
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Labor Day
Monday, September 6th, 2010Night Scenes: George & Jefferson Streets
Thursday, July 15th, 2010This past week I started on a new project of time lapsed night scenes. For now they are all taken in Bushwick, but I fully intend to do this wherever I go, now that I know what I’m looking at. I don’t have a light meter because they cost a fortune and do what brains can do, so I did a lot of bracketing. Each scene was shot at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 minutes, and every image came out, which was the most exciting thing that’s happened to me all week.
Going forward, I’m going to shoot at a lower iso to reduce some of the graininess and bracket at 1, 3, 5, and 7 minutes. The images below are two I picked out and did quick scans of. I am seriously looking forward to actually making darkroom prints of these. And I’m contemplating doing a few in color just to see if I like the color of the street lights.
George Street between Central and Wilson, 8 minutes
Jefferson Street between Irving and Wyckoff, 6 minutes
Both images were shot on Fuji Neopan 400 film at f22 between 10pm and 12am.
Washington, DC
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010A 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 
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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…
Armory Show
Monday, March 8th, 2010This 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…
Snow Day
Friday, February 26th, 2010The 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.
