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One of my new years resolutions was to shoot more still photos, so I headed out to Chinese New Years with my new-ish 24mm f1.4. I also wanted to play with Diptychs and 1x1 cropping. Here are a few results.
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I've been slacking hardcore about putting up photos. But now that its the middle of the winter and I'm stuck inside on the weekend when I much rather be outside riding bikes, I figure its a good time to put up some photos! So this past fall I was traveling almost non-stop. While shooting for the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange project I ended up going to Berlin, Buenos Aires and Toronto. Then in December I headed to London to shoot a project for PUMA. Here are a handful of photos from those trips!
BERLIN!
I missed the charm of Europe, its been three years since I was there last. Berlin was awesome!
I loved this.
Jewish memorial.
Between some tech issues with the rental cameras and long hours, the shoot in Berlin was pretty tough, but staying at Hotel Adlon made up for the street. The hotel room was by far nicer then my apartment in NYC. Man, this place was sweet, the nicest hotel I have ever stayed at!
BUENOS AIRES!
Next up was a trip to Buenos Aires. I flew in a day early and got a chance to walk around and "scout" the city. I also stay an extra day and made it out to the Tigre Delta, which was really cool and reminded me a lot of New Orleans! Highlights included coffee, cafes and more coffee! Oh and the food, my god, the food. No matter where we went, we had amazing food!
La Recoleta Cemetery and a street musician.
La Boca neighborhood.
La Boca at sunset. Great light.
Lots of great and cheap coffee. Cafe creama was my favorite (picture cafe con leche)
and with coffee comes really cool coffee shops.
Boat ride through the Tigre delta.
gas station in the Tigre delta.
LONDON
The final international trip I took this fall was a week trip to London to shoot a project for PUMA. I was staying and shooting about 45 minutes outside of London, but I made it into London a few times to get dinner. The job was extremely demanding so I kinda took a break from my camera at night, but here are a few stills i snapped off.
So my friend Emily was finishing up an artist residency outside of Lincoln, NE when I got back from Beunos Aires. She wanted company for the drive back east but with the amount of flying I was doing I couldn't image getting on another plane. Instead I used that as an excuses to do something I've been wanting to do for a while and that is, try out long distance train travel in the states. I took off from Penn Station on an overnight train bound for Chicago (via going north to Albany first), had a short lay over in Chicago and then took off on another train for Lincoln. All in all it was about a 28 hour journey. I wouldn't recommended it for everyone, but I had a great time. Slow travel really is the best travel sometimes. Much more about that later!
Waiting for the Shore Line Express at Penn Station.
Everything I need for the 1.5 day train trip and the week long drive back.
We headed north and right around sunset started to pass the Catskills. The train follows the Hudson all the way up to Albany.
I made it safe and sound to Chicago the next morning.
The best part of train stations is that they are in the middle of cities. During my "lay over" i was able to pop out to the Lou Mitchell's, an awesome and famous dinner located a few blocks from the train station.
I thought the ride after Chicago would be really boring, but it was really pretty!
The train I was on had a sweet observation car... this same train would continue on all the way to San Fransisco! Right through the Rockies!
A train yard somewhere west of the Mississippi.
I finally made it Lincoln, Emily was happy to see me, I was happy to see her. We stayed on the farm where her studio was for a few days and then took off.
We took Highway 2 through the northwest section of NE know as the Sand Hills. It was very different then what most people picture NE to look like.
The next morning we went and saw Mt Rushmore and then climbed to the highest point east of the Rockies (a look out tower in the Black Hills)
It was cold.
after making it to Rapid City (what a weird town) we spent half a day exploring the Badlands.... i think this was the highlight for both of us! I felt like we were on Mars!
After this we B-lined it home, stopping in Chicago to see friends, and Cleveland to play pool and western PA to go bowling! What a great trip, makes me realize how much more of the US I need to see.
Wow its been way to long since I have updated my blog. This summer was the summer of camping! I took a few different and awesome trips. First up are some photos form a motorcycle camping trip I took with everyone at www.chinonthetank.com.
The Second was a super fun trip I took with my awesome girlfriend up to the Finger Lakes and then to Frontenac Park in Canada.
