Cafe Bucky

My wife, Susan Price, is exhibiting a few Cyanotypes at Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, in Lincoln Center (NYC). The show winds up on May 30th. Check out the PDF Press Release for more information.

The current banner (traffic) is a Nokia 3650 CameraPhone shot, taken from 80th and Amsterdam.

My wife had just remarked about the lighting in the early evening, and how there were so many colors among the cafes. Without thinking about it, I snapped a couple of the passing traffic. Now I’m motivated to get back there (a few hundred feet from where I live) with a real camera, and do some zoom blurs …

My wife and I did a photo shoot today in Central Park.

Midtown snap cameraphone firmly grasped.

300th post. I wanted to acknowledge the number, but will wait til later to do the “look back at the best ones” thing.

The first thing to get out of the way is the comparison between Panther and Tiger. The Tiger crowd is much sharper:


and the Panther crowd was blurry (from October 2003):


From this alone, we can conclude that Tiger is a better OS.

As is true with any Friday or Saturday evening, Apple SoHo was crowded:


It’s a good thing that there are 2-3 more Apple stores in the works for Manhattan (one next to FAO Schwartz). Apple SoHo is simply too small to handle the island by itself.

I did promise to get a blurry shot:

After half an hour or so of what was a surprisingly boring demo of Spotlight, Sophia and I high-tailed it over towards Astor Place and rang up Susan (armed with a Holga) to come join us for din-din. Susan is at home, waiting for the post Apple store call:

You should know that if you ever go to Astor Place, you must state clearly which Starbucks you’ll meet at, since there are a couple that are catty-corner. The one next to the Downtown exit is, of course, much better. They use better beans, have friendly people, foam the milk better, and count out change a little faster. The one across the street is merely proud to be in its shadow. The other thing to know about Astor Place is that there are hundreds of people milling around waiting for their friends to show up. It’s The Portal into the Lower East Side. The tattoos and piercings get better by the block as you walk eastward …

Here you can see Sophia dutifully studying the Tiger “manual”. I’m, er, people watching:

So we all meet up, walk all over, and end up finding a cool Italian place on 2nd Avenue. Then things started really getting blurry…
	.. seriously .. .

Nah nah nah, just kidding! This wasn’t some booze-fest at CBGB’s. We ambled around in that in-between zone where we aren’t tourists, but we’re not from that neighborhood either. Clutching the precious copy of Tiger, we bounded down to the train:


Time to transfer:


Bleary-eyed, Tiger would have to wait! Moral is: go right home after purchasing, do not head out for a night on the town :-)

Yeah, something to say about Tiger soon. Here’s a little nod to HD-like aspect ratios… My daughter and I have been busy checking out Apple’s new Cat.

Happy Easter! Here’s a little detail from the “Petaluma’s Choice” Coca-Cola sign.