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My Photography Debut: Schmap.com

The other week I got an email from Schmap.com, complementing three photos from my most recent trip to San Francisco. They asked if I’d like to submit these photos for possible publication in their upcoming travel guide, so I said sure, why not? A few weeks later I found out they selected all three photos for inclusion in their eleventh edition of the Schmap San Francisco Guide. It looks like it’s only an online thing, but my name + link to my Flickr page still appears in the photo credits— pretty cool! If you want to see for yourself, check out the following links:

Coit Tower
Chinatown
Filbert Steps

Memorial Day Weekend at Rockaway Beach

Who knew that such a nice beach existed just outside of the city, in Queens nonetheless? I’ve wasted several summers out at the shattered-glass filled Coney Island, but last weekend I decided to try out Rockaway Beach for a change. I took the A all the way out to the Broad Channel stop, and then took the shuttle over the water out to the Rockaway Park Beach 116 St stop. It was like being in an entirely different town altogether. The whole area was like a Florida beach town! The beach itself was surprisingly clean— no shattered glass! The sand was soft, the water was clean, and the overall crowd seemed a little cleaner than the bums that show up at Coney Island. Don’t get me wrong, I like Coney Island, but now that I know that this clean, enormous beach is just a few minutes further away, you know where I’ll be all summer!

Click here to check out my pictures of Rockaway Beach.

Hello, Brooklyn

Snapped this photo of the Brooklyn Bridge on my iPhone while riding the Q out to Brooklyn the other week. Always such a gorgeous sight.

Easter Picnic in Central Park

Easter Picnic in Central Park

Easter Sunday was absolutely perfect. I spent the morning watching the Red Wings on NBC (even though they lost), while doing some last minute preparations for an Easter picnic in Central Park. I could not have asked for more perfect weather than the 75 degree and sunny day we had.

Mike and I were both in town on a holiday for once, so we wanted to do a little something to celebrate. Usually one of us is in Ohio or somewhere else on any given holiday- including birthdays and hallmark holidays. We initially thought about cooking dinner, but that sounded like a lot of work for only two people. Then we discussed going out to eat, but since we go out to eat all the time I thought it would be more fun to have a picnic in the park- especially considering the nice weather we’ve been having lately. So we  went down to Central Park and sat in a field somewhere in the lower/mid 80s area, on the East side.  We had the most comfortable, fuzzy brown blanket, music, ice cold drinks, and a full menu including:

- Butter crisp crackers
- Hard Salami
- Prosciutto
- Sun dried tomato goat cheese spread
- Bacon wrapped olives
- Crescent wrapped cocktail franks
- Individual serving apple pies which I baked without a recipe
- A lemonade, cranberry juice, and rum cocktail drink

Everything was delicious! I spent about two hours making those six pies on Saturday night, and I was relieved to find out they tasted so amazing. I thought for sure I would screw them up somehow. We sat in the park munching on food for around 3 hours before packing it in for the day. When I came back to my apartment, I was slightly buzzed so I decided to sit on my window cil over the fire escape and play guitar and sing [horribly] to all of the passerbys below. Nobody took notice though so I got bored after a while and headed back inside.

If you’re as much of a food photography lover as I am, you should check out my photos from the picnic on Flickr. There’s some nice shots of the park in there too, and some ridiculous ones of myself and my guitar.

Frozen in Photography

This website has a pretty amazing collection of  “frozen in time,” split second photography.