Manhole Corner

Assignment: Triangles.

The State of Things

Never attended rallies or marches or protests until Trump usurped the presidency and proceeded to shred every last vestige of decency at home and abroad. Staying busy now. Times Square vigil last night.

Coffee Drip Apparatuses

Coffee shop and roasters in Long Island City section of Queens. Coffeed flagship store, I believe these are used for tasting events.

Jockey

Traveling this weekend, Saratoga Springs, NY - Horse racing country.

Tree and Sky

Taken a couple of weeks ago. Got nothing today.

Masts

Posted this elsewhere in B&W but the sky just washes out to a dull gray. These hot hazy humid days aren't working for me.

Brush

A clue as to what I'm doing all day instead of shooting.

Bus Terminal Vents

Local Flavor

The Pandering Pig is a restaurant in my little neighborhood. Haven't eaten there yet, but it's on my list.Cafe Buuni, blurred in the background, serves great Ethiopian coffee. The owners are Ethiopian immigrants. Yes immigration!

Sentinels

Continuing my dark and gloomy b&w work.

Tappan Zee Bridge

Officially renamed Mario Cuomo Bridge, but I refuse to acknowledge the change. Mario's son, Andrew, is Governor now, which makes it kinda tacky that he pushed through the naming of the bridge after his father. It would be fine if there were a new bridge being constructed that didn't already have a name.

Manhattan & Brooklyn Bridges

Walkway over the Hudson

An abnormally beautiful day. Very warm for February,

Tookapic

My top posting, based on likes at tookapic.

After 775 straight days shooting and posting a picture each day on tookapic, I finally missed a day. It's not that I didn't have a shot worth posting (I posted plenty of quick snaps to keep the streak going), it's that I didn't have a shot- period. Just plain forgot to pick up the camera and shoot something for the first time in 2 years, 45 days.

I would like to put in a plug for the tookapic website and community. The exercise of posting everyday was certainly challenging and rewarding. I highly recommend a 365 project to everyone. You don't always turn in your best work, and some days you're even a little embarassed to post what you have, but you also learn how to pick out a 'safe" shot on most days, something you can feel good about posting even if it isn't the greatest thing in the world. I remember reading somewhere a professional photographer mentioned that as a strategy - get the safe shot early so you have something to submit if the great shot doesn't happen. A sports guy, if I remember.

More importantly, the community on tookapic is tremendous. It's a lot like the community around here on blogger, but much larger. There's nothing but encouragement and support, negativity is nonexistent. You can request constructive feedback if you like, and even then you can expect mostly positive feedback with a gentle nudge to maybe think about this or that next time around. As the community is mostly based in Europe (Poland is the birthplace of tookapic) there are also frequent physical meetups among tookapic-ers in various locations. I had the pleasure of meeting "Jewels" on her trip to NY last spring.

So I've relieved myself of the pressure to post every day and wanted to return to my old blog as well. I will continue with tookapic but plan to be a bit more picky about what I post.

Red Leaf in Black & White

Over at tookapic I've been mostly shooting close-up nature shots this week. Today I had a couple of shots I could have posted, so I had one left over to post on the old blog. Work has been extremely demanding this past week in terms of time and mental energy, so not much else happened beyond the minimum requirements of my one-a day project.