Picture of the day

Photo taken from the overlook at The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park with Canon S90. Selectively desaturated in Lightroom 3.

Snowy Time Lapse of Inwood

One of the things I love about my D700 is the built in intervalometer. This morning I set up at my bedroom window and focused my 24mm on the scene below. I set the intervalometer to release the shutter once every ten seconds for 1000 images. About 3 hours later I had my images, and dumped them into Quick Time Pro to produce the video you see below. Enjoy.

207th Street Station

Last stop on the A Train: my neighborhood - Inwood.

Snow glorious snow.

Before I went to bed last night, I laid out my gear for the next day's ride. It would be the maiden voyage of my new F1. I filled my camelbak, mounted knobbier tires, lubed my chain and went to bed. Throughout the night I tossed and turned, imagining myself zipping through the woods, lofting over rocks and logs and enjoying bottomless suspension. At 7am I couldn't take it any longer and I got up and went to lurk in the forums at mtbr.com. A short while later I took a shower. When I got out of the shower I did a double take when I walked past a window. "what the?! .... YES!" I watched as a flurry quickly developed into a storm which was rapidly blanketing my hood.

As I sit here eating a chunk of baguette with home made marmalade I anxiously count down the minutes until I must pedal out to the station and catch the train to Hastings on Hudson where I'll ride to the trail head at Sprain Ridge. Alex will be on the 9:20 train out of Grand Central and we'll catch up on things as he's been out of town for the last couple weeks.

So, my first real ride on the F1 will be in the snow. Should be sloppy! Full ride report and pics as soon as I can.

Inwood this evening.

When I got home from work, there was still a bit of light left, so I set out with my new 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor. I love this new lens. Here are a few shots from my neighborhood.

copper

Since I've moved to NY, my 5th floor bedroom window has proven, on several occasions, to be a great vantage point for interesting photos.

Inwood at night

A few 30 second exposures at f/22 from my bedroom window:

Saturday Snow

The xmas tree came down today and was dragged over to the park and mulched. We hit up the farmer's market for some delicious apples, but that was about the extent of our activities today.

Snowy here today, at phattire headquarters.my wife and I are holed up with a good movie and La Fin du Monde.

Inwood

Getting off of the 1 Train last night at 207th st. An 8 second exposure taken with my G9. This is my neighborhood, Inwood. I love living here.

3 from last week

At long last we got a cable modem and a solid connection to the net. It's nice to steel wireless signals from your neighbors but I really had a hankering for some serious uploading speed. So, now that that's taken care of, here are some images I've been meaning to post for about a week.
And now I'll go finish unpacking more of our stuff from the big move.
- Mike

In Inwood.

My wife and I now officially live in Inwood. Today we drove a 17' U-haul truck from Charm City to Manhattan. (We're now island dwellers) We're both exhausted. We moved all of our stuff into a two bedroom apartment on the5th floor of a great big ol' building... each floor took 18 agonizing steps to conquer.... times four... that's 72 steps just to get to our apartment..... add another 72 for the way back down to get more stuff! Multiply this all by about 30 times and you get: sore back, sore legs, totally devoid of energy. It's time to go to bed now.

Photos soon, I promise.

Mike