For the past few weeks Molly and I have been playing catch up, trying to get everything done that was swept aside at the beginning of the month. While we still have been doing our Sundays, they have definitely been shortened from the full blown, day long events, to just afternoons or mornings. Oh and we had that whole Harry Potter weekend thrown in there.
Most of the time has been spent paying bills, working, cleaning up the house, and the never ending job of laundry (for those of you that have machines in your house, be thankful). Somewhere in the mix though, I got my new toy. A sweet new 35mm Digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera. Ever since we moved to the city I've been kind of looking for some sort of creative outlet. In the city I've learned that you really have to work to get out and use the most of your free time. The term "weekend warrior" isn't strong enough. To go for a simple bike ride here is not as easy as just walking out your door and being in the woods, you have to find the woods, and then battle traffic to get there. So as I said, I've been looking for some way to get out and use the left brain a little, and attempting to photograph the NYC that I see is my new project.
Now I never took a photography class in college or high school (although I did grade a lot of tests when I was an art assistant), so the general workings of a camera are pretty much a mystery to me. But I've been reading the book and playing with all the settings. I have over one hundred pictures of my plants (not all that exciting), but I'm developing an idea of how things work. On my first trip out, I decided Central Park would be a great place to start. These are the best pictures. Molly helped pick them out.
These first two are in the fancy Conservatory Gardens. They have lots of flowers.
I liked the little bee flying around, but he was a little camera shy and would not turn around, so I took a picture of his bum.
This is looking across a lake up towards Harlem.
The green plant building that I walk by every once in a while when we walk from our house north on Fifth Ave.
3 comments:
wow, bout time you outlet creatively. now that you have a decent camera you can start posting flikr pages with all of your lovely naked pictures. good work!
Nice pictures. This makes you a certifiied struggling artist. Or is just struggling.
7th street
Knowing how to use a camera is what they WANT you to do!! Now you are trapped, useless, and all for what? Well, if it is naked pictures, maybe it is worth it.
HOT HOT yee ha!
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