Special guest photoblogger

I drove saturday, and despite driving some friends home, returning a hack license left in my cab, and driving a great photo-blogger around, I made a decent wage. 

Driving around with Jez was a pleasure. He held two cameras in his lap, one wide angle, and one zoom, snapping shots so many times that he changed memory cards 4 times in only a limited time frame. I told him, at that point, that I'd only taken a few shots, none that I was happy with. 

"Well you are doing the driving," he said.

True, true, but it made me think about how much I've faded in any hardcore attempt at photography,

"When you are a photographer, you only do one thing, so you might as well shoot a lot." This is what he told me, when I mentioned again, my lack of images.

To see his shot from inside my taxi click here: 

Jezblog: Breakfast Bagel on the Run : East Village : NYC| December 9, 2007

Sunday 12/2: bathroom Journey

It was snowing on and off all morning, and I'd forgotten that I had to go. I eventually found somewhere to park and took my camera with me into Grand Central Station.

Saturday 12/1

Before sunrise I saw camels outside Radio City Music Hall, I guess everybody wants to see the christmas spectacular, even camels? Once the sun came up there was a huge line of people where the camels once were. 

Occasionally I find cab drivers and car service drivers stepping in and out of their car trunks. Just cleaning up I suppose.

Shots by Neighborhood:

1-Gramercy

2-Garment District

3-Flatiron

4-Midtown (Rockefeller Center) (Radio City Music Hall)

5,6,7,8-Hell's Kitchen

9-Upper East Side (the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

10-East Village

11-Downtown

All selected pictures from Saturday are in Chronological order.

Quote of the week

My fortune cookie tonight reads: 

"The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances"

Sunday 11/25 (pt 2)

Flushing, Queens

Sunnyside, Queens

Midtown (The Empire State Building)

Upper East side, (Park Avenue)

Sunday 11/25

Upper West Side

Times Square District

Queens

Hell's Kitchen

Flushing, Queens

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Saturday 11/24

Hell's Kitchen, I don't know why it's called that, or the more real-estate friendly "Clinton," but there are more small restaurants to be found here than anywhere else in the city. As the traffic light holds me at the corner on 9th Avenue, I watch the reflections of a back door to a kitchen, seeing everything but myself.

Downtown Manhattan's Business District has been a ghost town around these dark hours of the weekend's morning. There are no clubs until TriBeCa, and all the bars are for neighborhood drunks, and perhaps their Brooklyn friends.

In Chinatown, A faceless woman walks the street to avoid foot traffic on the sidewalk. Everyone on the curb melts into a Chinatown stew except one lone New Yorker who walks north.

Chinatown is a place where despite the tourism you actually can find bargains there, it's true. New Yorkers search for cheap gifts behind the foreground of two grey 1998 Toyota Camry'.

The Lower East Side, still finds room to keep a parking lot, but with looming real-estate opportunities, one wonders for how long?