Photography

Below are the excerpts from our travel journal for our trip to NYC.

Click on any of the photos or here to see the whole photo album.

Day One:

We were plenty early at CAK, almost too early. Thankfully the flight and flight crew were ready to get the plane moving, everyone was boarded and we left earlier than scheduled.

We arrived early at Laguardia. We caught the bus to the subway station and were able to check into the hotel when we arrived. We went to go grab some breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien and suddenly the cops showed up and started banging on one of the bathroom doors. After quite a few bangs followed by “it’s the police, open the door”, a young couple emerged. The girl looked completely oblivious to the happenings around her. The boy was talking with the cops for a bit before they all four left the restaurant. I overheard the waitstaff stating that the boy had told the cops that he had flushed the drugs. A great introduction to life in NYC.

Back in August I made an impulse buy, the Fuji X100S. After chatting with the guy at the camera store for a little while, he told me the rumors were Fuji was releasing another camera soon, the X100T. I promptly returned the X100S, waited a week, and preordered the X100T.

I’ve taken around 200 shots with it, some fair and some really not good. I’m still feeling my way around on a proper camera. The last camera I owned was a SD900, which was a replacement for my SD100 that had broken. Hardly impressive by smartphone cameras these days.

The weather is changing again, almost time to end another year. The temperature during the day is trending towards the lower end of the spectrum. I’m going to miss the temperate days, but I guess that’s part of living here with all of the four seasons.

On that note, I started a 365 Project for photography. One photo, every day, for a year. I’m trying to stick to a “no food” rule, but I just broke that one today.