Pork steam buns from Ippudo – NYC
In short, EPIC. I seriously do not have the expanded vocabulary to even come up with an adjective to describe on how good this is. All i have to say is if you are ever in NYC, you must give it a go. Oh, and their Ramen’s are also EPIC.
Nikon D700
1/80
f/2.8
24 mm
ISO 2500
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Unsafe conditions
New Jersey Transit and their genius ideas decides to close down half the platform (Track 5) at Newark Penn Station for some renovation work. I understand the need for that, but they also blocked off a part of where the entrance is to the platform, so it gets bottle necked like crazy coming up the stairs. And what’s worse is Amtrak or whoever is in charge of bringing the trains in to the station, waits a long time to bring in our trains. Massive amounts of commuters, small platform = a recipe for disaster. People push to get to the back area of the platform, and with limited space, it only takes one person to give the right push, and the person in front might have an awkward position, can and will fall to the track. And when they finally bring the train in, it’s a mad rush to get inside the train. There is no order what so ever. Even at NY Penn Station, there are 12 Tracks that the NJT uses, why in the world would you bring a train and have it disembark, on the same track that has a train boarding. You know what happens, a dozen or so people coming off from that train trying to get out while hundreds of commuters trying to get down the stairs. We are all in bad mood already because the train is already late coming in. Seriously, they need to do something about our train infrastructure, it’s a complete joke compared to Europe and Asia, a joke.
Dinner
My sweet GF made this for our dinner, 2 Reuben Sandwiches. It was quite tasty.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Jelly Bean
Pom Frittes Ala-mode
No words, just enjoy the image.
Chocolate Covered Onion
This is out there, and yes, the thought of onions and chocolate is not quite appealing, my buddy and I had to try this. It was very dissapointing. The chocolate crumbled off when you took a bite, and the skin was still on. I think if they used smaller onions where you can just pop it in your mouth whole would’ve worked better.
This shot was also included in Womensday.com’s online article about wierd chocolate covered foods. I think if it had bacon, it would be better.
Best way I can describe this is, if you bit an onion, and took a bite out of a Hershey chocolate bar.
Nikon D700
Nikkor 60mm
1/100
f/4.0
60 mm
ISO 4000
This is also one of my most viewed shots on Flickr, and it’s gotten a lot ‘ew’ comments when I show them the photo.
Sunset over the lake.
I have a love hate relationship with Instagram. I love it for it’s quick and easy edits on photos, which makes ho-hum cell phone shots into pieces of art, and I hate it cause it’s a quick and easy way to edit photos, and makes us photographers that put hours in the digital dark room processing/editing shots look bad.
In any case, it does show off the one thing a photographer has that cannot be replaced by apps, and what not..and it’s his vision.
I hope you enjoy this quick shot I took over the weekend whilst enjoying a 6 mile walk.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Instagram
Android 4.1
Sunset
Yet another Instagram post. This was shot from my desk, nice beautiful orange sky, as the sun was setting over NYC.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
This came out a while ago, a way to embed your Instgrams on to WordPress blogs. I’m quite the avid Instgrammer since it’s release for Android (follow me, instagram.com/gta86), and this news excited me.
Anyway, we did just get power back, and we are still trying to get back to normalcy. Now we have a storm, a Nor-Easter in fact hitting us up here in the north east. This will definitely slow down the recovery process from Hurricane Sandy, but it’s not as destructive. I hope everyone out there that were in the area of Sandy is alright, and getting up back on their 2 feet, and also hope that no one they personally know got the worst of it.
Situations like that make you appreciate everything that you have.
So, today’s random photo is a shot I took whilst on my commute home. Snow covered platform.
Full Moon
The return of the random photos. This was taken the night after the storm, quiet night, and I had nothing much to do, being without power and such. The moon was full that night, and with the power out, there were no street lights, and thus making it stand out much more.
Canon S95
HDR Mode
This was shot using my Canon Powershot S95’s HDR mode.
Butterfly
Apologies for the super late post. I just got my new phone today, a Galaxy Nexus S, and I’ve been playing around with it a bit much. It is also my GF’s birthday, so, stuff had to be taken care of.
Anyhow, this was a picture shot at this massive art place in upstate NY, called Storm King art center. They have a massive expanse of land, and they have massive artwork all over the place. I don’t think we even got to explore the whole place. In one area, I just noticed a bunch of insects, bee’s, lady bugs, butterflies. I sat there observing, and I decided to just start taking photographs. I don’t have a true macro lens for my Pentax, but the DA* 50-130mm lens proved to be a worthy lens. Below is one of my personal favorites from that set.
Pentax K20D
Pentax DA* 50-135mm F/2.8
1/1600
f/2.8
135 mm
ISO 100
0 EV
If you would like to see more photos from that set, here’s the link.
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