The Photodiarist

Outside The Kitchen Window

New York: From my kitchen window

Inspiration: I should be outside. I am going outside. It's just that I've been feeling under the weather for the past few days. A horrible chest cold and sore throat. I keep coughing and coughing and coughing. I have a speaking thing for work next week (I have to speak in front of 500 people including my boss!).  So I cannot lose my voice! But the sun and warmth are beckoning.  See the sun sparkling on those bricks? The dark shadows on the right are the frame of my window (in case you were wondering about technicalities like that).

P.S. To my Mum: I know I wished you Happy Mother's Day this morning and, for that matter, last Sunday (because I goofed the date! Well better early than never . . .). But here's another: HAPPY DAY TO YOU. You are da best.

Windows Through Windows

New York: 6th Avenue and 18th Street

Inspiration: New York has some beautiful old buildings (American "old" - not European old").  I forget this sometimes working in midtown with its modern glass and steel scrapers.  Speaking of skyscrapers, I am off to spend another day in one.  Have a great day everyone.

Light In Between Shadows

New York: 19th between 5th and 6th Avenues

Inspiration: I took this photo with my Iphone yesterday afternoon.  As I was taking it, I overheard a passerby ask his friend what on earth I was photographing.  Well, I was trying to capture the light in between the shadows of buildings, as I found it quite beautiful.  As well as the aged texture of the wall in the middle. Sometimes something cool exists in nothing much.

Flowers on the Sidewalk

New York: Gramercy Park

Inspiration: I've been relying more on my i-phone than my 5d Mk II for photos lately.  My 5d can be so unwieldy! In any event, while running errands today, I ran across the remains of what must have been a beautiful bouquet of flowering branches. Still beautiful. 

Repetition

New York: Gramercy Park

Inspiration: From my archives.  I remember being into repeating patterns all around us when I took this about two years ago.

I Cannot Wait To Ditch The Tights

New York: Somewhere.

Inspiration: Hey weather fairies.  Send some warmth down here. I cannot wait to ditch the black tights already! Although I will miss my favorite old black suede Fendi booties.

Not One But Two

New York: Washington Square Park

Inspiration: If one won't do, try two.

Cold Spring

New York: Union Square

Inspiration: It's been a chilly spring so far.  But I hear that warm weather is around the corner! In any event, my big project is over (on to the next one) but I am still in no mood to do much of anything that doesn't involve a couch or a bed! During the last part of the project, we stayed up for 33 hours straight to get it done by the deadline!

Columns

New York: Soho

Inspiration: I know that I have really been neglectful of my blog . . . but I have been really really (add ten more "reallys" to that) busy at work.  For weeks, I have been staring at a jumble of words, tables, columns and rows, tables and charts and trying to make sense of every thing in this project. But in the bits and pieces of spare time that I've squirreled out of my crazy weeks, I've taken a photo or two or three. So I just don't have much to post. This one is actually from my archives. I am attracted to this photo because I've been staring at charts for so long, with column after column after column.  Except that these are beautiful!

On Orchard Street

New York: Orchard Street

Inspiration: One of the coolest things about photographing buildings in New York, especially below 14th street, is capturing the way the fire-escapes line the faces of buildings. They create such terrific patterns and texture.