Times Square Ball Seems Ready

Ball seems ready to go. Here it is as seen from 30 Rock at night.

The Ball as seen from 30 Rock

The Ball as seen from 30 Rock

The Ball as seen from Times Sq

Under Brooklyn Bridge Before Sunrise


Want to experience REAL cold? Down under the Brooklyn Bridge in December before the sun comes up is a good place to try. Photographer Rick Scott flew in from Seattle for a day of Continue reading »

Police and College Kids

A project I got to “sing” on for G4. It’s no fun being a campus cop.  Continue reading »

2 Hawks in One Week – NYC

In all my years living in the NYC area I’ve never seen one, let alone two in one week. This guy was the size of a Buick, in my backyard. The web is so helpful. Posting this on Facebook, it took all of an hour for the gang to agree it’s a Continue reading »

Thoughts on DroboPro FS


I wanted a solution that would let us share files among all the computers in our office and studios and well as around the house. This would let me sometimes get out of the studio to any other comfortable part of the house where I could plug in a laptop to wired ethernet and work on images and photos and possibly some light video. How did it fair? Continue reading »

Santa Con NYC


Dress like Santa and go pub crawling? Santacon in NYC is basically a call on the web to do that in massive numbers. The starting point is only announced the night before. Twitter tells them where to go. There are rules. We started seeing a few more Santa’s than usual early in the day. Then parades of groups on the streets, and finally massive Santas massing at 72nd and Central Park West.

Watch a Photo Shoot

Street shots in the city. Wanna see how it’s done? Watch how our bud Ken does an urban shoot with a nice couple and his imagination. Even if you’re not into photography it’s interesting to see what locations he picks and how he poses the couple. Watch for the moment when they get kicked out of a shooting location. Photography is a CRIME you know. It’s the urban equivalent of “Get off my lawwwwwwwnn.”