Some guys came by the apartment a week or two ago to replace the guard rail outside our apartment. We have these great sliding glass doors from our 14th floor apartment, but the only thing that\’s outside is this guard rail — no patio where we can actually sit outside!

The art museum, skyline, and Schuylkill River from Fairmount Park near Boathouse Row.

Just after lunch at Jack’s Firehouse in Fairmount in Philadelphia. Across the street is Eastern State Penitentiary. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough time to go in to the prison.

I did get a shot without Mike’s hand in it, but I kinda like it with the hand as a humorous element.

Here’s another from the back patio of the Pinetree Lodge. Pretty cool, huh? This was on a Sunday evening around 7pm.

The Pinetree Lodge is a great dive in Murray Hill. Drinks are reasonably priced, there isn’t a huge B+T crowd, and the bartenders are great. The back patio area, where this photo was taken, is double plus good.

SO TIRED. In the Times Square Subway station on my way to the 7 train to Grand Central Terminal.

Another result of Chain Suck. Being the (non-)handy-man I am, however, I was able to successfully fix it, thanks to Mike (who I apparently now owe a beer).

The second maintenance problem on Saturday: a broken chain. While I was peddling around a turn and trying to shift into an easier gear in anticipation of a coming incline my chain got caught on the teeth of my crank and continued around the crank until it got twisted. Apparently there\’s a common term for this: Chain Suck. For the rest of the ride, I kept yelling, \”Chaaaaaiiin Suuuuccckk!!\”

For the first time ever, I got a flat out on a ride. This is right after I mounted the tire over the fresh tube Mike had fortuitously brought along with him.

In a common room on the third floor at Creedmore. This more or less completes the set of posts at Creedmore — at least until the next visit.

A neat looking door with lots of peeling paint textures. This is the entrance to the room with the mirror in the posts from earlier in the week.

From the third floor of the Creedmore Psychiatric center.

Another of the mirror from yesterday’s post. Creedmore has tons of great traces from its past, and lots of new layers from more recent visitors (including some creepy staged blood).

Roman talks to a stranger…

A hipster on the Subway.

The Empire State building in the fog. Taken in the morning from Jersey City.

Under a bridge in a suburb of Seattle.

More tourist photos from Seattle in the fall of ‘09.

Grand Central around Christmas. This is the second one from a series I took. The first one that was posted is here.

A tree in a park on the campus of the University of Washington during our vacation to the Pacific Northwest in October and November.

Followup to a prior entry with the Katyn monument. There’s now a continuous stream of flowers, candles, etc. at the memorial. It will in all likelihood now carry dual meaning…

At Christmas-time at Rockefeller Center. I know–cheesy. But it was sitting right there, begging to be taken.

Yes, yet again, archives. Another from over the summer shortly after the move. This one serves as a reminder to get out with my tripod and bike to Central Park for serious noir photos. The ones from over the summer were shot hand-held with the 50mm f/1.2, which worked, but with no depth of field and very dark surroundings it’s pretty limiting.

Yet another from the archives. This was taken last summer, shortly after our move to NYC.

Yesterday’s post showed a tree in a similar location to the current one, only there wasn’t much evidence of the amount of wind up there. This poor tree certainly shows lots of wind damage

Another from our vacation to the Pacific Northwest last fall. This was a particularly windy day, even though you can’t tell from the photo. The sun’s rays kept flashing on and off as the clouds rolled past, and I managed to snap this just before it hid behind the clouds again.

A quick side-note: this is a 3 exposure HDR taken hand-held with the 5d Mark II. The Mark II has a pretty slow framerate (around 4 FPS), but it’s plenty fast enough if the shutter speed is high and the subject isn’t moving a lot.

Here’s one from a vacation to the Pacific Northwest last year. It was taken atop Mount Hood as a foggy drizzle was passing overhead and the sun started to go down.

The line at the MoMA this afternoon… I don’t want to see the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit that badly today…

A couple drinking beer in Brooklyn, looking at the cityscape over the East River to Manhattan.

One from the archives today. I still have no idea what everyone was looking at, but loved all that was happening in the frame.

I’ve seen this guy in Grand Central at least 3 or 4 times. He’s always dressed the same way and standing in the same location. He’s also always hiding from the cameras of people passing through.

A monument to the Katyn massacre in Jersey City.

There’s a decent movie based on the massacre too. Recently the Vlad Putin finally admitted (even if only implicitly) that the Soviet army was responsible for the massacre. Until then, they’d blamed it on the Nazis.

Update: good lord, what terrible irony. Terrible…

A broken window in an abandoned WW2 military complex on the Long Island Sound.

Mike found a makeshift pommel horse on our way from The Pony Bar in Hell’s Kitchen to Penelope in my neighborhood.

I’m going to put the tourist postcard pictures on hold for a little while. This weekend catalyzed some gems, such as this one where Greg prepares for a new set of adventures in the city earlier today. His decidedly energetic pose comes after an eventful evening the prior night in which we saw a fistfight, observed discussions about autopsies, watched somebody vomit on the side of a building at 3am, and stole ate 3 slices of pizza. And I’m sure I missed something.

Here’s another from the other night when my tripod was swiped. This area of Brooklyn is really beautiful.

A couple friends and I went out to take photos of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn last night. Here’s one of the shots I took, before leaving my tripod on the Manhattan Bridge on our way home only to find it was taken by passersby when I went back to get it.

This is a 6 shot pano taken with a 50mm f/1.2L lens.

There’s an entire city block in the Financial District of Manhattan (on Church St, about a block from Ground Zero) with these Walk signs. It’s a big wall that was put up to hide ugly construction work.

Here’s another from the great fog the other day. This is one of the many people who stopped to take a picture with a cell phone because of the incredible fog over the Hudson and Manhattan.