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A collection of photographs taken at Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade.
Up the creek
Pattagansett River, CT, USA -- 30 May 2010 | Permalink
"We're sinking."
I said.
"What?"
said M., sitting blithely unconcerned in the bow.
"I said, we're sinking. We're going down."
I didn't have time to think of any more synonyms, because the kayak, settling by the stern and filling now quite briskly, had already begun to slide beneath the surface.
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Elephant Walk 2010
New York, NY, USA -- 23 March 2010 | Permalink
"Whatcha waiting for?"
asked the elderly tourist, understandably curious as to why a small group of people might be standing on the corner of 34th and 5th in the pouring rain, sometime after midnight.
"Elephants."
I told him. He looked skeptical. "No, seriously. Elephants."
He shrugged, and wandered off into the rain. Evidently he had better things to do than stand on 34th Street all night waiting for passing elephants.
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Chinese New Year 2010
New York, NY, USA -- 21 February 2010 | Permalink
"Why are they playing salsa in the Chinese New Year parade?"
a girl on Orchard Street asked her boyfriend. It's a reasonable question, but it assumes that New York's Chinese New Year parade is, well, Chinese. Which it is, up to a point. But it's also a parade. That means that in the American tradition, anyone who can possibly find an excuse for being there will be.
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Ice on the Hudson
New York, NY, USA -- 07 February 2010 | Permalink
I went out this afternoon to take a look at the recently-opened High Line Park. From the park, I saw that the Hudson River along the West Side was thick with pancake ice, so I walked down to the water to take a closer look and some pictures.
I ended up walking along the West Side Greenway to Pier 66, where wind-whipped spray had choked the Long Time waterwheel and frosted the railings with still more ice.
Twentyten Vision
05 January 2010 | Permalink
I've started a new project, which is to take one photograph every day during 2010, and post it to the web. You can see the pictures at my new twentyten.disoriented.net photoblog. The goal is to try to make me think more about photography and try out some new techniques.
It's quite likely that I won't manage to take a photograph - let alone an interesting photograph - every day. It's very likely that I won't manage to post one every day, as I don't always have access to the Internet. Still, it's an interesting challenge and I hope to learn something along the way.
Paris 2000
01 January 2010 | Permalink
Twitter is currently full of people reminiscing about what they were doing #10yearsago. Ten years ago, I was living in Paris. On New Year's Eve, I put a roll of 1600ASA film into my camera, and went out to take pictures of the city by night, including the Eiffel Tower with it's illuminated 'An 2000' sign (which lit up exactly at midnight). These are my favorite pictures from that night.
First snowstorm of the winter
New York, NY, USA -- 22 December 2009 | Permalink
The first snowstorm of the winter hit New York on Saturday, and left behind a few inches of snow.
