bundle of rays

After purchasing my first grown-up camera a few months ago, I've decided to learn how to use it.

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Toured Bushwick, Brooklyn today with a friend. Learned a lot about graffiti and its history. Loved it.

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#Georgetown

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spent the day in Mystic, CT with the fam!

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On vacation this week and trying to get some practice in around the 'burbs.  The Cascades at Lake Mohegan is a place I hadn't been to in years -- not for at least 20 years.  As I was driving around with my nephew trying to think of a place to go walk around and take some photos, this place suddenly popped into my head.  It's great for dogs and we encountered a ton of them along the various trails.  Maybe I will bring Toby this weekend.  I have a feeling he'll run off and get carried away if I take him off leash so I'll have to keep him close with the retractable leash.

I took over 100 photos over the course of two hours and only had a handful that were good.  But, practice, practice, practice.  That's what it takes.  

I still can't believe that view (the second photo) exists in Fairfield.  Crazy.

And no, I did not carve my name into a tree.  I just came upon it.  I swear!

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Baby bro visits NYC.  Battery Park area, Rockefeller Park, Highline.

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scenes from Gapstow Bridge in Central Park

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In a new series, photographer Damon Casarez is profiling the “boomerang kids,” a generation of millennials who are moving back in with their parents after college. 

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Loving this

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Sundays in Fairfield

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Toby.  Except when he's been bad, he's Tobias.

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Long Island City

Tomorrow marks class #5 and our second week using Manual mode.  Since starting this class, I find myself paying much more attention to the light around me, which is good since we've been taught that the very first setting to adjust before you do anything else is your ISO.

I left work a little early today to go take some photos by the water.  I was planning on walking 20 minutes over to the west side but I'm glad I decided to go a little closer to home to take photos.  The 7 train brought me over to Vernon Blvd and a few blocks away from the piers in Long Island City.  The weather was PERFECT and there weren't many people around at 6pm which allowed for a lot of photo taking without heads in the way :)

If the weather is nice on Saturday, I think I'll go back for some more practice and this time will bring my tripod.  I'm itching to take photos and let the shutter stay open so I can get that nice smooth effect on the water.

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Cornell Capa

London. 1951. Hyde Park

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Strolling around the Highline in Chelsea.  My first time there.

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#Astoria

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Set #2 from a great Saturday

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I recently started taking a photography class and I've been really enjoying it.  So happy to be taking photos without throwing the camera into "Auto" mode.  I've been experimenting and playing around with different aperture and ISO settings, particularly today.  My dad came down from Connecticut and we spent the day at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Coney Island boardwalk snapping the day away.  It was a really lovely day!