37/365 - street cred

thirty seven // three six five

11 30 2008
admit it, we've all done it before. sure its unsafe to adjust aperture & shutter speed while in a moving vehicle, but thats why they invented dummy settings on cameras. for dummies that want to drive and shoot at the same time!

36/365 - stuck pt ii

thirty six // three six five
11 29 2008

a day of shopping and some more shopping...

35/365 - stuck

thirty five // three six five
11 28 2008
having taken a quick detour to the Gershwin theater after work to see
if I could score some tickets for Wicked on Jan 1st, I tried to weave
my way through the tsunami of wide-eyed eager tourists. stuck is how I
find myself.

tourists:1 me:0

34/365 - bird is the word

thirty four // three six five
11 27 2008
kaden carefully assessing the thanksgiving menu. it may look like it, but no he's not wielding that knife.

33/365 - beer & chicken

thirty three // three six five
11 26 2008

what started as an evening of wine shopping (to fill up my depleted collection), beer & fried chicken turned into an evening w/ shots of weird korean raspberry wine, a celebration of the freshly released 2008 beaujolais nouveau, rocky IV and wii golf. somewhere in between, i managed to get drunk and had to be convinced by kelvin not to attempt to walk, read stumble, home while carrying two bags of cali cabs. thx kel, cause thats a friggin long walk of shame home.

read all about the beaujolais nouveaus festivities here. according to the crazy frenchman, its a huge deal in france and reason for all the college kids to get drunk.

32/365 - time to be schooled.

thirty two // three six five

11 25 2008
just not feeling it with my shots lately. the raw images i've been processing contain lots of noise. perhaps its the ISO setting i'm using or i'm just not sharpening the raw files enough. either way, its time to get home-schooled. hopefully the images to come will be better. =/

*as an update, those earrings were probably real since the seller wants me to mail them back. the seller, of course, is quite grateful and i've been quite lazy in dragging myself to the post office. but soon, very soon.

31/365 - fill-up, please.

thirty one // three six five

11 24 2008
as you can see.. the stockpile is getting low. its time to refuel. a wine rack with lots of gaps makes for an unhappy dude.

30/365 - 4x6

thirty // three six five
11 23 2008
celebrating fourth & sixth bdays w/ matthew and abigail!

29/365 - cheese it

twenty nine // three six five

11 22 2008

who is not having a cheese fondue night?

28/365 - dusting off

twenty eight // three six five
11 21 2008

after a two year hiatus, its time to dust off the tools of the trade!

27/365 - free shipping? great! free diamonds? EERRRHH?!?

twenty seven // three six five

11 20 2008

so in my effort to amass an arsenal of lenses, affordably.. i've taken to eBay as my camera market. purchasing used lenses is a great way of, well.. keeping more coin in the wallet.

i picked up this great sigma 30mm f/1.4 a few weeks ago in immaculate condition with original box, case, manuals etc for a great price + free shipping, ok? as it turns out.. i got a bit more as well.

i was inspecting the soft case and realized the cushion on the bottom is actually removable (didnt know that before) i take it out and something falls onto my desk. i take a closer look at what appears to be a pair of gold earnings with

14 tiny little diamonds on each. free shipping + a pair of diamond gold earrings?

you'll be happy to know that i'll be emailing the seller to notify her of my discovery.. ill keep you posted.

26/365 - brains of the operation

twenty six // three six five
11 19 2008
let's take a moment to meet the guys responsible for this blog. this behind the scenes crew is really the brains behind the whole operation and deserve all the credit for the awards and accolades. without them, this blog would merely be a collection of blurry obscure images (like the post from two days ago).

without further ado, let's meet the band! -- on the drums we have the canon 17-85mm IS f/4, on the bass is the sigma 10-20mm f/4 (borrowed from ivor!), on the guitar we have the sigma 30mm f/1.4 and at lead vocals the canon 30D.

25/365 - mah nem is jems

twenty five // three six five
11 18 2008
plus two, lebron.

24/365- aqua

twenty four // three six five

11 17 2008

having run out of water on the hike back toward the top of the grand canyon, it was only appropriate that kel and i both purchase commemorative grand canyon aluminum water bottles (imitation sigg bottles, call it what you will). i now carry that wherever i go.

on the subway? no water well? no worries! you have your aluminum water bottle. for some reason, my coworker cracks up whenever i take it out.. i guess its cause i've since forgone using paper cups (i'm so green) and was totin' this around all day. so i whip it out to drink on the subway and again she cracks up.. so i have her take a photo w/ my phone.

23/365 - back at my desk...

twenty three // three six five
11 16 2008
officially back from vacation, its time to get to work... on my photos! i was at my desk editing photos throughout most of the day aside from a brief jaunt to the mall.

didn't shoot at all today so decided nothing would be more fitting for my photo-du-jour than a shot of me touching up what could be my favorite shot of the trip (minus the me of course, as i was behind the camera).

here's the album of our hike:

grand canyon hike

22/365 - back to reality

twenty two // three six five
11 15 2008
just touched down at LaGuardia. a day lost. but I did happen to wake
up from my nap to spot this nice sky out my window.

certainly not a GC sunset, but not too shabby from 36,000 ft up.

21/365 - vegas skyline

twenty one // three six five
11 14 2008

red rock canyon - las vegas.
a different perspective on viewing sunset in vegas.

20/365 - where are ya mater?

twenty // three six five
11 13 2008

keepin' an eye out for lightning mcqueen, mater and the green hornet
now...

19.5/365 - fulfilled

nineteen point five // three six five
11 12 2008

the canyon is so grand, it deserves two posts today.

so after the sunrise we headed down the South Kaibab trail for a
'quick' hike to the Colorado river. the South Kaibab trail is supposed to be one of the more challenging and steeper trails....8 1/2 hours, 13.4 miles and nearly 10
thousand feet in descending and ascending later, I can check off 'hike
grand canyon from rim to river and back in one day' off my to-do list.

several notes about the day. at the start of the hike, the park ranger
repeatedly warned against going to the river -- saying it is
incredibly challenging and that we may not have enough sunlight on the
way up. after finishing the hike, we can say he was correct in his assessment. so we ran out of water and food on the way back up with almost
3 hours of hiking up the canyon left. thoughts of going macgyver on
the cacti were running rampant through my head. second, we were
quickly running out of light with the sun having already set and no
end to our hike in sight. macgyver pt ii: thinking of whether sleeping
behind large rocks would be warmer or behind a tree and if I should
sleep with my sunglasses on so bugs won't invade my eyeballs. luckily
we got back to the trailhead not a minute too soon, it was nearly pitch
black as we sat to catch our breath.

needless to say, didn't have much of a chance to shoot the sunset with
my camera as I was too occupied with cactii, rocks, trees and bugs. I
did manage to snap this with my phone.

enjoy cause although we suffered tremendously, we certainly enjoyed
the experience!

19/365 - mornin' sunshine

nineteen // three six five
11 12 2008
majestic sunrise over the grand canyon. now it's time to hike to the
river.

18/365 - Dam it!

eighteen // three six five
11 11 2008

taking in the sunset at the hoover dam. it's quite a structure, much like an extremely scary water slide to immediate death.
i'm currently 7.2 miles away from the grandest canyon of them all. looking forward to an attempt to hike to the river tomorrow bright and early!

17/365 - delayed

seventeen // three six five

11 10 2008

my connecting flight is delayed by 3 hrs. my only lifeline to the outside world is telling me it only has "20%" to live. so now I'm sitting on the floor at Dallas airport sucking the lifeblood from the wall. while my lifeline refuels, this has been my view for the past hour. neither glamorous or exciting, just a sore derriere from being camped on the floor. if only i had a top hat with me, i could collect some change while juicing up the phone too.

*hats off to the airport janitors for shining the floors so well and letting me get some cool reflected colors.

16/365 - if i could buy 1 bridge..

sixteen // three six five
11 09 2008
the shan-anigan was in town for a long wknd and after dropping her off at newark, i headed downtown for a haircut. walking to my car i spotted my favorite bridge saying hello.

15/365 - when I'm a shakin'

fifteen // three six five
11 08 2008

i find the only times i eat at shake shack are when its pouring rain. that's when the lines are reasonable.

i had the usual (cardiac arrest special).
*shack stack - two cheeseburgers and a 'shroom burger topped with lettuce, tomato and shack sauce.
no worries, i'll be burning those calories real soon when i hike the grand canyon to the the colorado river next week!

14/365 - argentina, LES

fourteen // three six five
11 07 2008
if someone crammed argentina (& its crème de la crème of culinary artisans) in a weekender bag and shoved it into the overhead compartment, my first guess on where it was unpacked would be 152 stanton street (@ azul).

*shot at 30mm f/1.4, 1/25sec iso 1600

13/365 - working

thirteen // three six five
11 06 2008
amid the chaos of two older sisters and one younger cousin running around, my nephew matthew found his sanctuary.

12/365 - turning the page

twelve // three six five
11 05 2008

11/365 - meal ticket

eleven // three six five
11 04 2008
only at participating locations and while supplies last.
coupon cannot be redeemed for cash value.

10/365 - garden work

ten//three six five

11 03 2008
what'd you expect? a photo of me yanking some weeds and trimming the hedges? this is the only kind of garden work i do. it's a tough job, but someone has to do it. as you can see, i coach myself as i swing...

*i forgot how much fun it was to shoot long exposures...

9/365 - mohonk-a-donk-donk

nine // three six five

11 02 2008
a fun-filled day of rock scrambling/hiking at the mohonk mtn house w/ joyce, ivor & attie. the colors from the fall foliage are simply amazing and even more stunning when shot with a 10-22mm lens.

did i deliberately wear an orange shirt knowing we'd be shooting fall colors? ... i dunno... did i?

8/365 - sightseeing

eight // three six five

11 01 08