Category: life

  • Horror Show

    Horror Show

    A walk through a local park raised a few questions and some scary ideas

  • Time to Party

    Time to Party

    End of election day brought the option to gather with local candidates, but it didn’t seem fun

  • Golf Cart Culture

    Golf Cart Culture

    Alternative electric vehicles seemed to be catching on in my neighborhood

  • Small Business Roundtable

    Small Business Roundtable

    An in-person small business roundtable with City Council and Small Business Services taught me a lot

  • Week of Dance

    Week of Dance

    My old elementary and my current middle school both asked for help creating videos of their spring dance performances

  • Two Shopping Carts

    Two Shopping Carts

    Walking to a nearby hospital to donate blood, I crossed paths with these two shopping carts someone left on the corner. I did not really want to get closer in case someone mistook me for a thief, so it’s not the most dramatic picture. Stealing one shopping cart is reasonable, but two is excessive. It…

  • Better in B&W?

    Better in B&W?

    I don’t usually convert my pictures, but this one felt like the action might benefit from being reduced to black & white. Bright blue versus dark blue was begging me play with the levels. Photoshop is my jam, so I’m not simply taking down the saturation to 0%. While I was able to differentiate the…

  • Just Brooklyn

    Just Brooklyn

    Coming down the stairs to wait for a train to board, I saw a man cleaning his feet on the subway bench while cops casually arrested a man nearby. I didn’t think I should take out my phone. It seemed like a task for AI. When I switched lines at another station, I took a…

  • Rewarded

    Rewarded

    Finding the real location for a Sunday game in September was something else. Coaches gave us a street address instead of the park name. The address was for a city sanitation site… We went in circles and cursed traffic. We hustled. We made it on time. It was such a sunny day for a game,…

  • City Life

    City Life

    On my way somewhere downtown, I spotted a group of little kids on a walk and thought the whole scene felt other worldly