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New Blog and Happy Halloween!

2009-11-19T13:51:00.004-05:00

Time for a little change, come on over to my new blog!
http://lisastein.wordpress.com/

But I won't send you off without a photo!

Cape Cod 2009

2009-08-24T20:57:00.001-04:00

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Lemonade Stand, Miami!

2009-07-29T13:02:00.008-04:00

Three cousins in town together, one from New York, one from Miami, one from LA, Aunt Laurie thought of something fun to do!Mmmmmm chocolate chip cookies!
Only the best from Aunt Laurie, deluxe lemonade jar! Who can resist!

The princesses guard the money...
I think someone sampled some cookies!

But at least he is hard at work in the 90 degree heat trying to get customers driving by.
The rewards are not all monetary, but it sure was fun dividing up the money!

Slideshow new page!... or below...

The Boat House

2009-06-27T13:34:00.002-04:00

I shot a wedding with Celeste Joye last week. She's a very creative artistic photographer. I love shooting weddings in NYC. Even in the rain, the day was beautiful, the light was stunning and the couple was wonderful.

Calle 13

2009-06-25T12:36:00.003-04:00

Sometimes I get to shoot events at Macy's. This one was for Kent Miller Studios for Adidas @ Macy's Herald Square.

Calle 13 is a Grammy winning latin multi- style hip hop group consisting of two half brother's. The name of the group is the address one of them lived on, 13th Street and their names are Residente and Visitante. One of them lived in a gated community, visitors were routinely asked "¿Residente o visitante?" ("Resident or visitor?") when approaching the security gate. They both went on to college, one studied to be an accountant and the other computer science. They started working in music and went on to become 5 time Latin Grammy and Grammy Award winners.

Representing Adidas as a promotion for Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC....

E 58 street

2009-06-25T09:25:00.001-04:00

Shot from the car on the way to the 59st bridge. I always think this
is such an interesting looking building.

PS 34 Culture Day

2009-06-05T13:22:00.010-04:00

PS 34 Oliver Perry School in Greenpoint had a wonderful Culture Day. Many student's families come from other countries. This was a chance for them to share clothing and food, music and dance from all over the world!

Many Polish students here, some born in Brooklyn, some in Poland.

and of course delicious food from all the countries!!!!

Play slideshow below!

Transportation Museum, Roanoke, VA

2009-06-03T14:21:00.006-04:00

This is one of our favorite things to do when we visit in-laws in Virginia Not only are there trains, but cars and planes!

Cousins

2009-06-03T10:55:00.006-04:00

Experimenting with some actions. Here's a sample from MCP.
This one makes a blog multi photo template, lots of others for free sample and to buy...

Montauk, Ditch Plains

2009-05-31T14:07:00.002-04:00

May 26, 2009
An afternoon out at Ditch, lunch at Ditch Witch (yuuum!).
Quicksilver bus making the rounds with a few pros on board and in the water.
No surf for me this time, always good to make a little movie when I'm high and dry.

Montauk, Ditch Plains from Lisa Stein on Vimeo.

The Windy Pixel, Tony Shi shoots NYC

2009-04-27T11:19:00.005-04:00

I haven't been blogging much lately. Today I'm cheating and I'm going to link to another blog I discovered.
Some photographers in Chicago (based at my old freshman year school, the very academic, University of Chicago) called The Windy Pixel. They specialize in HDR, high dynamic range photography. Which basically means the photos have all the details in the dark areas and the light areas, beyond the scope of one exposure. The photos are multiple exposures that layered together. Better more detailed explanation in tutorial.

Chicago is great, check out their blog for amazing photos, but I was particular moved of photos closer to home.
They have a guest blogger from New York, here is New York as I haven't quite seen it before.

Tony Shi >> The Windy Pixel, NYC.

It's that time of year again - BBG

2009-04-02T14:07:00.002-04:00

2008 Cherry Blossom Time-lapse at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Vimeo.

NYC Aquarium-PS 34 trip

2009-04-01T11:17:00.005-04:00

The good thing about being is freelance mom, is that I get to be involved in school functions, and go on field trips. I usually try to bring my camera and get some good pictures, which isn't easy while chaperoning 2 small children, one whom I don't know so well.

This time, I got three, and I have to say I pretty much gave up taking photos except while we were all waiting in line to get in to the aquarium. Having 3 squiggly wigglys and only 2 hands, does not leave a hand or 2 for a camera. The kids were excited tho. We could smell and feel the ocean breeze which was just past the boardwalk behind us.

It's always fun seeing all the sea animals, but this trip was crowded, cold, rainy and it sure is dark inside the buildings wandering the hallways looking at the tanks. Hard to keep track of hundred's of school kids trying to see as much as possible.

Next time I think we'll play hooky and go in the afternoon when all the school kids are back in their classrooms.

Time to feed the penguins!

If you want to see the sea animals, check out this slide show from our YMCA camp trip this summer

Coney Island Mermaid

2009-03-24T10:07:00.001-04:00

Coney Island Mermaid, originally uploaded by ljs.

A little something from the Mermaid Parade! That time is coming round the bend. Decided to finally try something I've been hearing about, post from flickr. Let's see how it goes!

Maren- A little birdie told me she's on her way...

2009-02-22T18:02:00.007-05:00

No pink here...
Anytime now...
A variation of the old VW commercial...

I think I feel her kicking...

Geezer is patiently putting up with Stanley, practice for the little one to come...

Wii Sunday Afternoon

2009-02-08T18:36:00.005-05:00

Playdates are great! First there, then here. Wii Mario and Lego Star Wars. What could be better!

Photos from The Stephen Sprouse Book

2009-01-29T12:24:00.005-05:00

1984, Steve Sprouse fashion show at the Ritz! E. 11 st in the East Village.

The Padiha Brothers, Roger and Mao did an amazing job on the Steven Sprouse Book. They were kids in LI and heard about this exciting rock and roll fashion show in the east village and were hooked. I was shooting runway at the time and was happy to cover my friend Stephen's show. What a blast it was! The rest is history...

My photos are the runway...yellow on left side

Left page: all black and white inserts (orginally color slide, converted for press kit)
Right page: left inserts color runway
Left page: orange/green runway
Right page: grey runway and coat with yellow interior runway
Right page: silver leather grand finale! (published in Bunte)
Teri Toye, Marc Jacobs and Debbie Harry at the book launch party. (I had to get a shot, even with my point and shoot!)

YMCA Winter/Spring Program Guide!

2008-12-09T12:50:00.002-05:00

The new YMCA Program Guide. The top photo is mine! :-)

Christmas Tree Miami Style

2008-12-09T09:58:00.004-05:00

Underwater Tree!

Miami

2008-12-05T14:18:00.002-05:00

I have been so bad at blogging, abandoning my old best friend to my new best friend Facebook. So don't feel rejected, here are a few from my recent trip to Miami to join with my 3 other sisters and their families, extended families, step families...etc for some fun in the sun!

Vizcaya

2008-12-03T15:48:00.004-05:00

Stephen Sprouse

2008-11-12T16:14:00.008-05:00

New book coming out in January. Read the review. I'm mentioned in the same line as Andy Warhol! I have 5 photos, some full page spreads, can't wait to see it!

Review

Facebook - The Stephen Sprouse Book

Southern California Backyard

2008-10-17T09:46:00.004-04:00

I found this collage I put together of Polaroid SX-70s and then color xeroxed. I love the dreamy quality of the photos...
To me it defines a little of the environment of pre-teen in southern california, including the black cat walking in the empty swimming pool.

Erev Yom Kippur

2008-10-08T11:53:00.003-04:00

I came upon this picture I had floating on my desktop. I made it for my Dad when he was in the hospital to go on the cover of his notebook (my sister Sue says always have your own loose leaf notebook for all the doctors reports, labs, etc, ie keep your own chart!)

Yom Kippur is a day of remembrance and atonement, so here are some photos to remember my Dad, his grandchildren, and his wife Alice, all taken Nov/Dec 2003. I'll have to find a photo of my mom and add that too (she passed away in 92-before the digital age, she would have loved it! She had one of the first IBM PCs, before PC was a household name.

Another Ballerina... :-)

2008-10-07T16:53:00.006-04:00

Acme Fish

2008-10-06T11:45:00.003-04:00

If you like smoked salmon, Acme Smoked Fish is the place. They supply all sorts of upscale delis in Manhattan and elsewhere. A little known local secret, is that on friday mornings, they sell all sorts of smoked fish 1/2 price at the factory where they smoke it. And I am lucky enough to live around the corner from them.... Yum!

Bains, France

2008-10-03T12:52:00.009-04:00

Looking at magazines and seeing beautiful travel photos, I realize I have drawers full of slides that I would love to see bigger! Here's one...
I shot this on a trip to the south of France after being in Paris for a week with American Express, shooting their Travel Agent division and putting on a slide show for them. One of the challenges of that job, was going to the lab a few times a day in Paris, and communicating with the lab only in French. At least I knew enough French to get by and get my film processed correctly...

New Year's afternoon @ the Met

2008-10-02T09:36:00.007-04:00

Where can you meet an old friend with another 5 year old boy when city schools are out for the second day in a row. The regular kid haunts are a zoo! How 'bout the Met! Always a favorite for young and old.

Good to start out outdoors in the Bear Playground for some serious playing, running, and using that #4 voice.

Then some promised ice cream to cool off and refuel.

First destination, mummies and the big Temple of Dendur. Stanley's convinced they can come back to life because the Pharoh and his whole army did in Scooby Doo.

Great to be in the wide open space and beautiful light.

Don't want to miss the sphinx

And the other highlight not to be missed in boytown, armor and weapons, always a must see!

A fun day was had by all!

Facepaint!

2008-09-29T13:29:00.005-04:00

Macy's special events are so fun, there is always something for everyone...

Train Video

2008-09-29T13:07:00.002-04:00

See if this works, I had fun putting together this slide show 2 years ago. For all you young boys (and others...)!

City Gym Boys

2008-09-19T21:11:00.012-04:00

Shooting at Macy's. Another fun day at work...

Music

2008-09-18T16:28:00.007-04:00

I love going in the studio and shooting jazz musicians for the CD packages and covers. Here's a shot from the latest...John Patitucci, bass player.

New York City Aquarium

2008-09-05T14:29:00.006-04:00

Here is the slideshow and some more photos as I promised. This was SO much fun!!! I love the aquarium and everything ocean of course, but add a bunch of excited kids, and what could be better (besides being in the actual ocean...)
Enjoy...Lisa

Facebook is Fun

2008-09-04T12:33:00.005-04:00

Facebook is so much fun. A friend and model I worked with in the 80s found me, she now has a 5 year old too, amazing! I dug up some photos we shot together, here are 2 that were published.

This was shot in the courtyard of the World Trade Center. We also did some great photos on the grounds of Battery City, back when it was a landfill art installation. Cosmo picked up this photo to use in an article on kissing, it was so hot South American Cosmo carried the story as well!
I got all the fun bookcovers. Photographer stalks the dark side...

The New York City Waterfalls

2008-09-02T11:38:00.002-04:00

There is an installation of 4 waterfalls by Olafur Eliasson on the East River and in New York Harbor. We took the circle line boat to see them all. How wonderful and soothing to see waterfalls in New York City! I have seen some from the road, but it was such a wonderful experience seeing them all from the water.

Back at the seaport, we went aboard the Ambrose Light Ship which used to be a lighthouse in the water.
Captian at the helm!
One of the many tug boats in New York Harbor. Let's Tug!

The Boys of the River

2008-08-15T23:20:00.006-04:00

This is a photo I found at an old album in an antique store....Just kidding, it was this afternoon. Fun day on the river!

NYC Aquarium

2008-08-10T09:27:00.003-04:00

We went to the NYC Aquarium. Another YMCA Camp field trip. They sure are busy running around NYC this summer! The kids had a blast! More photos to come...

Janet Hamlin, Illustrator

2008-07-29T09:13:00.003-04:00

Hamdam Guantanamo Tribunal

My good friend Janet Hamlin used to work for AP and has made many trips to Guantanamo as a courtroom artist. She has been going back recently as a freelancer and posts some of her drawings and stories on her blog. Her work ranges from tribunals, to famous people who have contributed much to our society, to worldwide events, to the figure drawing classes she leads at the Hopper House in Nyack.

I love seeing her wonderful illustrations and always learn something about current events as well! Check out her stories! Janet Hamlin Illustration.

DeBakey Homage

Transit Museum, Brooklyn

2008-07-25T21:53:00.003-04:00

I love going on class/camp trips. The YMCA goes to the best places, and Transit Museum is always one of our favorites. It is in an old subway station. Every time we go back there is more to see...

Trader Joe's - Queens

2008-07-16T19:54:00.004-04:00

Back to Trader Joes, yippee!
This one has amazing murals created by the local in house artist, Trader Joe's meets Queens.

Cafe Grumpy

2008-07-16T10:26:00.000-04:00

This reminds me of the one of the first things I look at in the
morning. Finally decided to try stepping out to cafe grumpy which I
watched being built but never made it back to try. Its been getting
best coffee in the city reviews, and now I can say its well worth it!

Cappucino Circuit, Oak Bluffs, MV

2008-07-13T20:16:00.004-04:00

Back when I graduated high school, I worked in Martha's Vineyard for the summer at the Black Dog Bakery. Then I got a night job scooping ice cream at the far end of Circuit Ave in Oak Bluffs. Years later, a good friend of mine and renowned chef, Donna Hall, opened up a coffee place at the same spot my ice cream place used to be.
Jump to present: I'm testing my new scanner. These slides I always loved...

and then there was the fishing derby....

A Look back at Halloween

2008-06-16T18:22:00.001-04:00

Looking back at the year at the YMCA Pre-School, I thought I'ld start with some Halloween photos!

Life on the Farm

2008-06-12T16:17:00.004-04:00

A few photos from a lazy day....I think the goats were pretending to butt heads for my benefit...

Plenty of good vantage points and nap spots...
The 3 little bears have a hard time settling down after a fun filled afternoon...

Yo Ho Ho!

2008-06-05T12:55:00.001-04:00

Everybody got new toys! I'm lovin' my new camera, it's like a burst of light...

Memorial Day!

2008-05-26T18:02:00.003-04:00

We biked down to the park along the East River in Williamsburg. It was sunny and breezy and perfect for flying a kite and playing ball with friends.

Stuffee

2008-05-24T22:27:00.004-04:00

The New York Hall of Science came to the YMCA with Stuffee. Their giant stuffed animal who is happy to demonstrate to the kids all his different organs inside his body. The kids had been studying the body and knew what everything was and where it belonged!
Here are some photos, and check out the slideshow to see the rest!

The small intestine is longer than the large intestine!

I hear the heart ticking...

Waiting for the 7 Train

2008-05-19T13:35:00.000-04:00

Kite Festival, McCarren Park

2008-05-17T20:27:00.005-04:00

We headed toward the kite festival this afternoon hoping to fly a kite. The weather was perfect, wind! We got our kite and up it went! All was well, but boy it's a lot of work keeping the kite up and trying not to get crossed with other strings. Sort of like fishing in a fishing derby. You have to feel and ride the wind, reminds me of surfing.
That's our kite in the middle, the blue spec with the red tail.
Kites peppering the afternoon sky.
Time for a break and ices. Looks like the colors match our kite.
The walk home with Manhattan in the distance. We spotted Chrystler building (next to the water tower) and Empire State across the river.
This stretch is still industrial. Love the old building fronts.
photos on the fly courtesy of iphone

Snake

2008-05-12T21:39:00.003-04:00

The Greenpoint YMCA Pre-School has had some amazing programs lately. I've been doing photos and slide-shows, and now I'm working on the animals. More to come, but had to post this one now.

Working with Photoshop

2008-05-02T10:02:00.007-04:00

I'm trying to learn new things with photoshop. I downloaded some samples from Rad Action Mix. Doug has amazing instructions to go with it, I've already learned something new. Here is something I came up with just playing with layer masks in his tutorial, and I kind of like it. (I don't usually go for big special effects and posterization, but this is kind of fun.)
What do you think?

Ballerina

2008-04-16T21:27:00.004-04:00

I keep coming back to the ballerina theme, I can't resist. (I too took ballet classes for years). This is my niece and she is so adorable in her ballet outfits and poses, I keep experimenting with different shots and different effects. It is so fun to see her and my son, cousins 5 months apart, interact when we get together. I call them Marco and Polo from the book about Marco monkey who lives in a warm climate and Polo penguin who is used to the cold. Or my sister calls them city mouse and country mouse.

2008-04-02T16:21:00.000-04:00

Wood Nymph

2008-03-14T10:48:00.004-04:00

I wanna be a Supermodel

2008-03-13T12:34:00.007-04:00

We've been watching Make me a Supermodel. I enjoy the photoshoots and the challenges it takes to be a good model. It's harder than it looks.
I can't believe my son started watching it with me. He knows Mommy's a photographer and is intrigued by the whole thing (plus I am having to start paying him stickers to pose for me as he would rather be shooting).
So, he's decided the true "model " look is mad, and this is his idea of modeling, to try and do a mad face (this is instead of a cheesy cheese which he picked up from somewhere, not me!).

Fake Paparazzi

2008-02-28T10:53:00.008-05:00

I posed as a fake paparazzi for a T mobile event. It was really more acting than a photography, (with photo equipment). It wasn't so bad being crowded, knowing I didn't have to elbow anyone to get the shot. The word paparazzi comes from Fellini's La Dolce Vita, a news photographer named Paparazzo. Fellini knew a boy with that nickname, which means noisy buzzing mosquito.

My friend was there, an actor herself, model, singer and wonderful headshot photographer. Here is a quick shot I took of her and an experimental Lightroom variation...

Here is one more...
A great view from the opening of the little white tent, looking down the sidewalk...

I loved watching the bouncer with his big umbrella reflected in all the colored lights.

Toll House cookies w/sprinkles

2008-02-23T21:17:00.002-05:00

Making cookies on a Saturday afternoon...Toll House was a real place near where I grew up. My mom taught me how to make them and her mom taught her. It's a good thing the recipe is on the package so one can never loose it! Yuuummmm!!!! We added the sprinkles...

Snowball Fight!

2008-02-23T18:46:00.003-05:00

Watch out, here comes a snowball!
I would take more pictures, but my iphone is getting all wet.

Meeting Daddy for lunch @ work

2008-02-23T18:32:00.003-05:00

2 trains into the city

Hot Wheels in transit
It's our stop, about to get off...
We're heeere!
Midtown
Times Square
M & M billboard
Mecca!
Race cars

Aaaaahhhhh!!!

2008-02-19T14:53:00.000-05:00

Snow Day

2008-02-13T13:22:00.007-05:00

This was the most snow we had all year. Time for a trip to the park after school.
The boys are like little puppies playing in the snow. Running and running, lying down and making snow angels, kicking and touching every snowflake.

Boys love their sticks, and what a find!
After the park someone was too tired to walk home. I looked up and there was a Dunkin Donuts. I said, How would you like some hot chocolate? Add a half a chocolate donut and a disaster was averted!
It was great to warm up and watch the snow out of the big windows! Looks like a few policemen and bus dispatchers were enjoying some hot chocolate too, and happy to get out of the weather.

NY Aquarium

2008-02-01T10:27:00.001-05:00

Deep Sea 3D.
A virtual ride on a submersible attacked by a giant squid. 3D
glasses make you feel right there, the seats rock and roll. Is it
scary, or the most fun... That depends...

Cracker Barrel

2008-01-29T09:27:00.000-05:00

We always stop at Cracker Barrel on long road trips and this is the best thing to do while waiting for the food to come. I was just reading Anne Ruthmann's wonderful blog, and she posted the big secret on how to win. We never win! Check it out...Solved the Peg & Hole Game!

YO HO HO!

2008-01-26T22:56:00.000-05:00

Visons of the summer. Long Beach Island. Playing with a little photoshop curves on an iphone photo. Sand castle by mostly Stanley, and Joe. By the way, check out some cool lego star wars space ships on Stanley's blog.

Gingerbread House

2008-01-20T18:23:00.001-05:00

Better late than never, we finally did it! Not perfect, but fun! (See previous post in the bag).
I'm amazed, it looks pretty good, and the icing is drying and doing it's job and sticking!

Chinese Lion and glow in the dark Dragon

2008-01-19T21:14:00.000-05:00

The Y had family night, and tonite was a special treat for Chinese New Year. A glow in the dark Dragon and a Lion, complete with drums!

The Lion was quite a good dancer.

The Dragon head looked mild in the light...

but when the lights went out, it became a whirring dancing beast!

The finale with Lion and Dragon dancing together!

Dragon and Lion part 2

2008-01-19T21:07:00.000-05:00

The lights came on, the glow in the dark dragon stood still, and the kids got to hold the poles and march the big scary dragon around the gym.

Our little friend was so excited, she wore herself out and slept through the encore, loud drums and all!

photos by iphone

Flower in Griffith Park

2008-01-18T16:59:00.000-05:00

We went to see the train museum, but I found this on the way...

Polaroid Transfer Revisited

2008-01-10T20:46:00.000-05:00

It's fun getting inspired by other photographers. I saw a great bookcover by Gjerme and remembered a diner shot of my own. This is one of my favorite polaroid transfers which was aquired as part of Polaroid's Artist Collection, and posted on their website. I wrote about Polaroid Transfers earlier, here's a link back to the blog post here. I also hand color some of my Polaroid Transfers with water color paint.

Leaves Virginia Thanksgiving

2008-01-08T08:49:00.001-05:00

Looking back to the fall for a little playing in the leaves...

2008- looking back 5 years

2008-01-05T23:04:00.000-05:00

I was just thinking, a lot has happened in my life in the last 5 years. Thinking about new website, and all this blogging. I have been a photographer for years, but it is only lately I have gone digital. It has been a transition from a point and shoot 2 mp camera in 2003 to finally my full website going up shortly. That is the work stuff, but the really big things that happened, was I became a parent, and an orphan. My son was born in 2003 and my 2nd parent died in 2004.
Here is the photo I made for my Dad when he was in the hospital to go on his medical notebook. It is all his grandchildren, and his wife (in the bottom right corner). My son was about 6 months old as he was held by his grandfather in the middle. I love this collage and miss my Dad.
It is fun to see my nieces and nephews so much younger.

Kaatskill Life

2008-01-04T15:16:00.000-05:00

I found it! The backyard in Margaretville. Back cover of Kaatskill Life Magazine
Love the Catskills and miss it up there. It is always the mountains or the ocean. Want to have both in my life.

Firefly

2008-01-04T14:47:00.000-05:00

Ok, I'm going to have some fun here. Got a new website template and thinking about what to put on it. Meanwhile figured I'ld blog a few old things while I'm working on it. Digging through published stuff, actually looking for a chair in the snow on the back of Kaatskill Life to keep with the winter theme. Couldn't find it, but found this:

part of back

Here's the byline...people get possessed by alien, have best orgasm of life and then die. The art department at Avon Books had an idea for a pose and wanted a very contrasty image. The model was from a sports modeling agency that had done some bodybuilding and had a little more flesh on her than the regular fashion models. I experimented with paper negatives, exposing on paper, then using paper as neg and doing it all again to lose detail. I practiced printing myself to get it right and then had Lisa of APM Darkrooms do the actual print for the bookcover. Avon's art dept colorized it back in the very early days of photoshop. Voila!

Holiday Decorations

2008-01-04T11:01:00.001-05:00

Trying to blog more, slow in editing so here's one ready to go...I know it's time to take them down now, but love the sparkle twinkling in the dark winter nights and days

Winter in Brooklyn

2008-01-03T21:30:00.000-05:00

Been inspired with Midwestern pictures of winter. Here's one from
around the corner back when I was still shooting black and white film.

New computer for the new year

2007-12-31T15:36:00.001-05:00

Stan putting the finishing touches on his latest computer

Welcome Home - The Rockaways!

2007-12-30T15:24:00.000-05:00

Home sweet home rock rock rockaway beach. Great surf, and fun to see from the air!

Let the sunshine....

2007-12-30T10:12:00.001-05:00

It was a little while later that a big red ball of fire started coming up on the horizon. (the wide angle iphone camera doesn't do it justice!)

Sunrise in Burbank - over Bob Hope Airport

2007-12-30T09:46:00.000-05:00

We set out in the dark (5am) to get to the airport, the good news, no traffic on the busy LA freeways! Boarded the plane and looked out the window and watched as the sky got lighter.

On our way

2007-12-30T09:32:00.000-05:00

Jet blue to jfk

Greetings from Pasedena

2007-12-27T17:58:00.000-05:00

I have to add, after our beautiful holiday walk through historic downtown Pasedena, my sister called later that night to say she heard on the news there was a shooting in front of Mi Piaci, right where we waited to get our cars. 2 shots went thru the window of the candle place next door, we were only there a few hours before this happened, in the exact same spot!

Jet Blue to Burbank

2007-12-23T10:43:00.000-05:00

The Christmas Tree

2007-12-22T17:40:00.000-05:00

Ours goes back to storage every year because we travel, we live in an apartment attached to other apartments made of wood. A tinderbox in a row. This works for now for us.
Joe reminded Stanley how when he was little, he used to unwrap the little shiny gift box decorations, and he said yes, and there was foam inside! He was a great help cleaning up to make room for the tree and decorating, the unwrapping will wait til christmas after Santa comes.

All aboard! Santa's coming to town.

2007-12-20T20:30:00.001-05:00

You better be nice or you won't get presents. - Stanley

Bye Citicorp Center

2007-12-14T16:06:00.000-05:00

The 7 train ride home.

Citicorp Center

2007-12-14T15:06:00.000-05:00

It must be time for The Station @ Citigroup Center

Citicorp Holiday Train Show

2007-12-14T14:52:00.000-05:00

My model never wants to look at the camera or smile.

Inspiration from the past still looks Great!

2007-12-14T09:33:00.000-05:00

Today I have to refer once again to the latest blog I look forward to reading. David Ziser's Ditital Protalk has a great combination of technical how to's including fantastic tutorial videos and links to articles on art photographers. This video today was embedded in his blog, and I would like to share it with you here.

License Plates at Roanoke Transportation Museum

2007-12-13T10:23:00.000-05:00

Lightroom/Aperture, Lightroom/Apertue. Been trying to learn and decide which application to use. May end up with both, meanwhile David Ziser has great Photoshop video tutorials. I started practicing extraction, and grabbed this photo to work with. I decided I liked the backround (with a little cropping), and meanwhile failed at my extraction (there must have been some tiny hole in my line I could NOT find). So here is a photo to start, and will have to grab some of those car and car parts!

Nothing better on a frozen sleety day then to sit in bed with the labtop working on photography!

Usually we just look at and photograph the trains. Here's Joe's nephew Jonathan in a very cool coat!

More on the Neighborhood Holiday Theme

2007-12-12T09:54:00.001-05:00

Duck in a tree...

and a little xmas lights in the hood

2007-12-10T18:53:00.000-05:00

Holiday Greetings complements of iphone!

Happy Hannukah

2007-12-10T18:06:00.001-05:00

Jane and Justine

2007-12-05T11:10:00.001-05:00

I went over to Jane and Justine's (see their adventures with Stanley in The Green Knight and the Search for Cherry Blossoms) house to take some photos of them for their holiday card.

Their mom had some pretty new dresses for them to wear. It's definitely challenging to get kids under 5 to sit still for photos! And smile -at the same time. We did our best and came out with some decent ones.

Then today I read another photographer's blog -MeRa Koh on taking her kid's photos for the holidays. She mentioned all the things I went through and I had to laugh reading her post. Check out her tips! She mentioned 3 sets of bribes (all non-messy). We only had two. Ice cream for after, and I told their mom I needed something NOW. We used chocolate kisses, but had to wipe their mouths between treats. Plus the sugar adds up in the little ones for MORE movement...

Ho Ho Ho!

2007-11-30T13:41:00.000-05:00

Trader Joe's in Queens!
And a parking lot to boot!

Baby Cow

2007-11-29T12:10:00.001-05:00

I'm trying to blog more. I have a whole series here (as usual!) but will start with my favorite!

The Marnios got a new baby calf to bring home.
Just in time for Stan to have a chance to bottle feed it!

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving from Virginia!

2007-11-22T11:52:00.000-05:00

Behind Niagara Falls

2007-11-18T21:38:00.001-05:00

In the old days they gave you yellow slickers with real buckles,
galoshes and hats. Now you get big plastic bag to keep you dry, but
the view is still amazing!

The view!

2007-11-18T21:34:00.001-05:00

There are tunnels that go behind the actual falls. This is the
Canadian side.

Nano

2007-11-15T13:54:00.000-05:00

What is more boring for a kid than a tour of a winery. Or any other meltdown material for that matter.
Lifesaver-kids tv shows on the ipod nano! Thanks Mike!

On the Road

2007-11-12T15:19:00.000-05:00

The Stein Sisters and families all met in beautiful Niagara-on-the-
Lake, Canada for a family wedding. We took a long road trip from NYC.
Pit stop. More photos to follow, I hope.