After attending the Photo Plus expo the other weekend, you see so many amazing huge prints, new gear, and hear free seminars that you can't help but want to go out and shoot photos right away. Luckily, I had my camera with me and it was an unseasonably warm night in NYC, so I was able to take my bike out and ride around while I waited for my wife to get out of work downtown. I also had my new Sony 12-24mm f/4, so it was a nice chance to utilize this focal length with street/ cityscape photography...
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Photo Of The Week 54 - All The NYC Icons In One Image - Staten Island, NY
Staten Island is known mostly for having the Staten Island Ferry which is a free ferry boat that commutes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week back and forth from Staten Island and Manhattan. It's a big tourist attraction since it's free and also has great views of downtown Manhattan and the Statue Of Liberty. For many, many years I've skated this part of the Island and especially the Staten Island Yankee Stadium which offers this view of lower Manhattan as well but I somehow never noticed how far back the view reached...
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Photo Of The Week 52 - Island Hopping In NYC - New York, NY
I did it! One full year of posting a story about a photo every week! To celebrate, this weeks photo is of a view I have been quite familiar with over the past 20yrs or so...
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Photo Of The Week 50 - Selective Sony Focus - New York, NY
Sony has a lot of great cameras out now from the A7 line up to the newly announced A9 coming out soon. However, they're still trying to catch up on the glass game with their competitors. I've been shooting Sony for about a year and a half and still managed to hold on to a few Canon lenses that I can't bring myself to get rid of. There are also a few lenses that Sony hasn't even made at all yet, like tilt-shift lenses. I'm still new to using tilt shift lenses but I would LOVE for Sony to make a few...
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Photo Of The Week 44 - Winter Storm Advisory? - New York, New York
Another one of the Manhattan skyline but there was something unique about this day. This morning, New York woke up to a winter storm advisory with high winds and heavy snowfall. On my way to the office, it was nothing but pretty outside with the icy roads and extremely limited visibility...
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Photo Of The Week 40 - Borough To Borough - Staten Island, NY
I've owned drones since the DJI Phantom 2 a few years ago and realized that the past year or so, I haven't used it recreationally as much as I should. I started using it for more of my weddings and it became just another "tool" that I had. A drone is so much fun to play with that I believe it should be more of a toy than a tool...
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#TBT - Franco Cammayo - TopSoul Of Sorts - Staten Island, NY
Everyone has one of those people in their crew, someone who is a master of funky tricks, always does something out of the ordinary and can most likely catch a letter on everyone with them in a game of skate. In our crew, this person was Franco Cammayo...
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#TBT - Justin Brasco - Sweat stance - Staten Island, NY
When I first started skating with Justin Brasco, he was a pale, chubby, short haired Long Island kid who spoke too fast for everyone to understand. Some of that's still the same but he's come a long way since then. For the past few years, I've probably been skating with Justin more than anyone else and he's been laying shit down continuously since then...
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#TBT - Joey Graziano - Vertical Soul Stall - Staten Island, NY
The original date on this photo was March 3rd, 2007, so this is almost exactly 9 years old. I don't remember much from this day but it had to have been one of those sessions where everyone comes out to skate because it's starting to get warm in NYC again...
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Week 2 of The 52 Week Challenge - Landscape
Last week kicked off the 52 Week Photo Challenge and this week continued with a landscape photograph. This was somewhat challenging for me since I live on Staten Island in New York City and there isn't much landscape or photo-worthy landscape around here. Combine that with it being January and that makes for even less visually pleasing sceneries with the lack of greenery and typically freezing temperatures...
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