New York @ Night

Manhattan seen through the Brooklyn Bridge

Bartender waiting for the Tuesday night mayhem at Happy Ending - 302 Broome Street

Young and upcoming Bang Bang Eche from New Zealand playing at the Mercury Lounge

An empty dive on the upper West side? That would be the Ding Dong Lounge.

Maybe Manhattan's best kept secret - The Campbell Apartment - inside Grand Central. Thanks to the lovely Natalia for your beauty and your patient pose. If you've never been, you've never been to New York I'd say, proper attire required.

Moto on a Monday night? Best bar in Williamsburg for sure, just ask any local that's been in the hood for more than 8 years. Even the kids love MOTO.

The Chrysler building on the left and a few other NYC skyscrapers

Gonzo Samurai Fotoninja at work (playin')

Photo Reportage - NYC

Central Park from the MET

Jackson Pollack at the MoMa

Empire State Building of America

Moss - designer botique in SoHo

Urs Fischer @ the New Museum - East Village

See - Do - Hear - Think

Things I've seen, done, heard or thought about in the past few weeks

• Cleaned the fish bowl for my black and blue beta fish at work who's name is Rick James (thanks Metricken & Kay)
  
• Ran close to three miles, three times per week for the past 3 months regularly
  
• Watched the LA Lakers take down San Antonio in the final minutes in game one of some playoffs with MT
• Finished a final cut of Los Toros Films 'One Armed Bartender' with David Fortner
  
• Got my next travel photography assignment for RG - (TBA, contract pending)
• Played four sets of tennis for the first time in more than three years up in San Rafael
  
• Ate some expensive tacos at the newly remodeled El Toro taqueria en El Mision, the same El Toro @ 17th and Valencia that gave me one of my very first taco experiences in SF
• I also ate a peanut butter and mayo sandwich - yep, you read right!
• Edited some old FILM in the storage box archives... cutting and sleeving of old negatives (which should really be on my list of things NOT to do... but since I'm oh so nostalgic... )
• Answered my phone more times than I made outgoing calls (today @ least)
• Canceled last minute on a camping trip to the Modoc Lava Beds up on the Oregon border. The trip has now (un) officially been postponed due to RAIN!
  
• Speaking of rain and photography, here are a couple of totally random shots from last year in Costa Rica while shooting on assignment for RG. I think it rained all but two days for the enitre 4 weeks I was there.
  

please note: all photographs posted above are resized copies from the original camera RAW CR2 Canon file and have had no adjustments made to them. you can see the whites are pretty hot and blown out as well as very weak contrast and flat color. most of that has to do with lighting conditions but also the need to be properly managed in Adobe Lightroom before they can be printed.