Coming and Going

We went to the movies yesterday for Father’s Day (Star Trek: Into Darkness, at Sweetie’s request. Yes, it was a fun movie.) Outside the theater is the interactive fountain, and though there weren’t very many kids there at the time, I caught this little boy having some fun.

Sweetie surprised me by heading into the fountain himself, and somehow he managed to hang out the center without getting too wet.

Friday Night and f/1.8 (mostly)

At the dinner the other night I slapped on my 85mm and opened the aperture setting as far as it could go. The hangar is lit by ambient sunlight from the hangar doors and high hanging tungsten lights within, and while I was looking to compensate for that, I mostly wanted to blur as much of the very busy background as possible.

ISO 100, 1/200s, f/1.8

There is a lot of story swapping that goes on at an event like this.

ISO 100, 1/200s, f/1.8

ISO 100, 1/80s, f/1.8

Other times, you’re just taking it all in.

ISO 100, 1/80s, f/1.8

Or taking a breather . . .

ISO 100, 1/80s, f/1.8

You all chat away. I’ve got my cookie.

ISO 100, 1/80s, f/1.8

Rich.

ISO 100, 1/80s, f/1.8

I gave these two black and whites a little different treatment. I also switched my ISO and stopped down my aperture a bit, as it was getting later and I was losing the light coming in from the hangar door.

Nancy.

ISO 400, f/2.8, 1/80s

Dessert was ice cream from two strategically placed carts. It looks like this guy got a bit more than he should have!

ISO 400, f/2.8, 1/80s

To show you what I was trying to avoid with my wide aperture, here are two I shot at f/8.

Volunteers at the front of the hangar, later in the evening.

ISO 400, f/8, 1/80s

Checking out the silent auction.

ISO 400, f/8, 1/80s

Sweetie being presented with the Volunteer of the Year award.

ISO 400, f/2, 1/160s

Wordless Wednesday: Break Time

New York City: The Eye of the Beholder

Seen at the Museum of Modern Art.

And that, my friends is the end of my posts of our travels to Washington, D.C. and New York City. I may throw another one or two photographs up, if the mood strikes me, but as MoMA was our last main stop on Day Three, aside from the NBC Studios tour where photography was strictly forbidden, I believe I have ridden this horse as far as she can go.

If you wish to see more of my photos from our trip, you can view them at my SmugMug gallery. (Link)

New York City: While waiting for the cruise . . .

I wandered around Pier 83.

Morning conversation.

Fisherman.

At the Dog Park.

An absent-minded touch.

Dainties.

Resting

Battery Park, New York City.

New York City: Attention must be paid

I hesitated before publishing these photographs, but I felt it would be dishonest not to show you that I saw this side of New York as well. To not show you is to continue to make them invisible.

These are the only photos I took of street people, though I saw many others like them (and far worse) throughout the city. This is our collective failure.