Look Closer

A few images from a long walk down Fifth Avenue from 145th Street to Washington Square Park.

Check out the interesting new web magazine, Bertha Mag, whose current issue features some of my work along with a bunch of other excellent photographers.

We just got back from a relaxing week-long visit with Tara’s family in Portland, Oregon. After a few days spent celebrating Christmas and checking out Ali & Evan’s new cafe, we headed up to Evan’s family cabin in Central Oregon. We cooked food, slept in, played with the dogs and just enjoyed having a little time away from it all.

Happy New Year!

We spent a long weekend in Miami, visiting friends and family and taking in the various art fairs.

A few photos from a late season visit to Coney Island.

A little overdue, but here are some photos from the latest Air Guitar Chmpionships. Congrats to Andrew “William Ocean” Litz for making it to the World Championships in Finland. See more of my Air Guitar photos here and here.

I had high hopes for Las Vegas. It has always occupied a place in my mind as a sort of seedy wonderland. A place where the rat-pack history would jump out at you and all night parties would be impossible to escape.

Admittedly, we gave the city a very cursory inspection but what I saw was little more that a depressing Disneyland theme-park. There were plenty of overweight families walking around with big gulps and obnoxious frat boy revelers but little of the charm that I was expecting.

I have many fond memories from my childhood of the family flying from our home in Massachusetts and going “out west.” This usually consisted of driving around various parts of the Western and South-Western United States and visiting the many National Parks.

What I observed this time around was a great mix of the natural beauty of the parks and the comic absurdity of middle America enjoying their leisure time.

Since returning from Central America we have been continuing our nomadic lifestyle right here in the good old USA. After a great few weeks in Tara’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, we set out for my first ever cross-country drive. While I’m not sure if we quite discovered the spirit of Jack Kerouac, we definitely got to know this wide and varied country of ours a little better. Here are a few photos from the road…