..grub time..
Tag: New York
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..i’ll leave you with this. smile! it’s a friday..
..gotta keep yourselves warm..
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..happy heart’s day..
..mondays..
..thank god for autofocus.. 🙂 have a great weekend!
..one of my faves from the day’s subway shots..
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..another straphanger from this subway mini-series i have this week..
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..well, those last few seconds* were something, right? 😀
*superbowl reference
..just a yellow chair on the high line..
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..have a great weekend y’all!
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..and this concludes this mini-series, i was able to get the hat on someone (there’s actually 2 of them) after a few more tries before the train arrived..
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pin the hat 3
..well, not much luck here again.. maybe on the next try..
*the  borders you see here are from the steel pillars (i dunno what they’re called) in the subway.. i chose to include them in the shot..
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pin the hat 2
..didn’t quite hit it this time..
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..back to people shots, these next series of shots were taken while waiting for the next train, i played a li’l game called pin the hat on the peeps..
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..she’s got that look of a mother just having caught her mischievous kid red handed..
..a fellow shutterbug who, like daredevil, uses her heightened senses to capture the decisive moment.. or maybe i just happened to take this shot while a cold gust of wind hit her face.. i think the former sounds better..
..get it?
..it was uncomfortably cold the weekend when i was at nyc, which made it easier to shoot street because people were preoccupied with keeping themselves warm.. not that they didn’t notice my huge, lumbering, touristy frame pointing a camera at their faces.. but i have wifey & her cousin acting as decoys so it was all good.. and it’s not like i was shooting with an “in your face 50mm (or shorter)” lens..
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york ave
..this stretch of road is york ave, taken from the tram..
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..i ran out of titles already..
..moleman’s take on this post..
*oh, that blur on the right? that’s me.. i had the camera flat on it’s back to get this.. 🙂
..okay, so there was this parade in brooklyn yesterday.. i wasn’t there, but i sorta remembered being there some time ago.. and i might have snapped a few photos also that day..
..commencing flickr photo dump..
..oh, and a happy father’s day to all fathers out there.. 😀
..we’re celebrating the 112th year of our independence back in the philippines..
..walk with pride.. 🙂
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city of bridges
what’s not to love about this city that’s bounded by bridges..
except for the ‘being lonely’ part.. here’s a great article from the NYTimes about newcomers to NYC..
*shot from the staten island ferry (free ride)
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Fourth of July Fireworks
Okay, so here goes..
With so many vantage points to view the fireworks, we positioned ourselves where I shot this.. right smack in the East River Park. The weather was a bit dreary and it drizzled a bit, but all that helped to thin out the crowd. It was 30 minutes of pure pyrotechnic joy.. except of course, I was peering through the viewfinder while holding an umbrella. 😉
Oh, and if you squint and see what’s underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, you’ll see something that looks like a blue waterfall. Well that’s actually one of the four, $15M “Waterfall” art installment by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. New Yorkers had a mixed reaction to it, some in favor and some who aren’t. It actually looks beautiful at night but during the day, you could see the scaffolds and the pipes that feeds the waterfall. And for $15M?! Come on..
NY may be a pricey place to stay but some things are free.. Unknown by some, museums sometimes allow free admission or a voluntary donation. Say for example, The Met.. the three of us were able to get in for just a buck.
This is the rooftop of The Met, it was a Friday so people were guzzling booze & shooting the crap.
It rained for a bit yesterday so I never thought that we would be able to get out. But the sky cleared a bit and off we went to church, but who knows that just around the corner, the Tony Awards was going on. 🙂 We stalked the red carpet across the street in anticipation of the celebrities and pseudo-celebrities that would pass by. We weren’t disappointed ‘coz our 3-hour wait paid off with a couple of celebrity sightings.
Here’s a member of the media gazing out into the dark, empty void that is the Red Carpet.
Supposedly, there’s a heatwave going on today. With record-tying temps reaching the 90s and increased humidity to boot, no wonder the media is hyping it up. It’s all in the news, but it makes me smile. I was thinking “..so this is a heatwave”, not bad, considering I’ve lived in Manila for five years and almost each day there’s a heatwave. I just brushed it off as another typical day..
Here’s another shot from the parade last Sunday..
Yo soy Boricua, pa’que tu lo sepas!
Braving the crowds, trudging uptown, under the sweltering heat of the sun, in between NYPD barricades I stalked an ample (if not perfect) location to shoot.. I perched under the lamp post at the NE corner of 72nd & 5th avenue, behind 2 Puerto Rican ladies one of who possessed an accent very much like Fran Drescher has. lol. All in all it was an experience of a lifetime, the energy of the crowd was intense!! 🙂
The Puerto Rican Day Parade (also known as the National Puerto Rican Day Parade) is a locally televised parade that takes place yearly on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The parade, which is always held on the second Sunday in June honors the nearly 4 million Puerto Ricans on the island itself, as well as the Puerto Ricans and those of Puerto Rican heritage on the mainland. In 2006 more than 80,000 participants marched and nearly 2 million spectators lined the parade route. The parade always attracts many celebrities, both Puerto Rican and of Puerto Rican heritage, and many politicians from the tri-state area.
The parade marches along Fifth Avenue from 44th Street to 86th Street and has grown to become the third largest parade in New York City after the St. Patrick’s Day Parade & the West Indian Day Parade along Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. With close to 3 million spectators annually it is one of the largest parades in the country.
Still from the parade yesterday.. a twisted view of Madison Avenue.
There was a parade today to celebrate the 110th anniversary of Philippine Independence. It’s still no match to the parades we have back at home though, but this’ll do. At least there was a bunch of good food. 🙂
The girl’s passive reaction mirrors mine.
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West Side
Awhile back I mentioned something about Weehawken people having a spectacular view of the city.. well, here it is. Imagine having to wake up to this scenery.