Tagged: coffee, Stumptown, stumptown cold brew, Stumptown stubby
Posted on October 28th, 2011
Oliver Strand wrote that these bottles look as if they belong in a “cooler on the porch”. I don’t disagree. The dark amber glass, dotted with a layer of condensation, brings to mind an old fashioned root beer. But instead of carbonation, these “stubbies” are filled with Stumptown’s cold brew coffee. Portland Stumptown cafes have [...]
Tagged: 85mm, central park, photography, portraits
Posted on October 20th, 2011
I had to mail back (my) the 85mm lens yesterday. In my mind, the weather was appropriately gloomy as I walked the block to the post office holding the box. I felt very comfortable using this lens in the short time I had it. I wouldn’t say it ‘fit like a glove’ (mostly because it’s [...]
Tagged: 85mm, brooklyn, brooklyn bridge, Jane's Carousel, Manhattan Bridge
Posted on October 18th, 2011
I rented the Nikon 85mm 1.4 G for five days and have had an enormous amount of fun photographing with this incredible lens. I seamlessly adapted to my new life where I actually owned the lens, but a reminder email from the rental site quickly snapped me out of fantasy land. In the four days I’ve [...]
Tagged: central park, manhattan, personal
Posted on October 13th, 2011
The last my parents visited Central Park, they were younger than I am now! (My dad was 18!) Last Friday, we subwayed in to 59th Street for a cupcake at Magnolia Bakery and followed our sugar high with a lovely walk through Central Park. Last Friday’s weather was perfect. Everything feels better and more positive [...]
Tagged: "Market Snapshots", farmers market, pumpkins, Union Square Greenmarket
Posted on October 7th, 2011
Where: Union Square Greenmarket When: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 I only had time to take a few pictures before I quickly ran out of hands as I checked off items from my shopping list! Still, it’s clearly Fall at the Greenmarket. Pumpkins, gourds, mums, root vegetables. New York has finally received some quintessentially perfect Fall [...]
Tagged: Hudson Valley, photography, sculpture, Storm King, Storm King Art Center
Posted on October 5th, 2011
After last summer’s frantic visit to Storm King, we promised ourselves that we’d return with more than one hour allocated to visiting the 500 acre property. Our goal this year was to leave the city by 10:30 and eat a picnic lunch on one of the shaded lawns. We didn’t end up leaving Brooklyn until [...]
Tagged: animated gif, anniversary, Storm King
Posted on October 3rd, 2011
…Justin and I were married on a warm Fall day. Yesterday, we celebrated our second anniversary with a trip to Storm King. We enjoyed crisp weather, the earliest hint of Fall foliage, and bike riding around the 500 acre property. I’m eager to start editing the pictures, but in the meantime, click through for several [...]
Tagged: brooklyn, Carroll Street Bridge, Gowanus Canal, park slope, photography
Posted on September 29th, 2011
I frequently walk between Brooklyn’s Park Slope and Carroll Gardens neighborhoods, either via Union Street or Carroll Street. Parts of each walk have their charm, especially when I enter the outskirts of tree-lined Carroll Gardens. However, between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens lies the Gowanus Canal, also known as an EPA Superfund site. When it [...]
Tagged: Church of our Savior, Copenhagen, Roskilde, soft ice, travel
Posted on September 19th, 2011
Justin started a travel journal during our Spring trip to Portland. Each night or morning, he’d write a quick update of what we had done, seen, eaten, and drank. After any trip, I always think I’ll remember more of the details than I really do. Instead I’m left with visceral memories and vignettes, the details [...]
Tagged: Arne Quinze, Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, travel
Posted on September 16th, 2011
In most Copenhagen guidebooks, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is placed in the list of ‘top 10 musts’, along with a haphazard collections of other ‘must’ items that includes smorrebrød (open-faced sandwiches), Fredericksborg Slot, the National Gallery, the main harbor of Nyhavn, Tivoli, and Danish design. A seemingly strange grouping, but in Lonely Planet’s [...]