The Latest Attempt at a Blog

Find behind the scenes stories, tips, tricks, and sometimes things that made me pull out my phone

  • Puppy Yoga Prep

    Puppy Yoga Prep

    Waiting three years to post cute pictures from storyboarding an upcoming fitness shoot

  • 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,…

  • New Tearsheets

    New Tearsheets

    I still label them as tears in my phone even though nothing is in torn out of a magazine anymore. The signature clubs produce sidewalk stands, but I’m never in Manhattan or any other signature locations. The first time I saw one of my signs was like a year after it was printed. I had…

  • 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

  • Trash Adventure

    Trash Adventure

    My hunt for which store sold me a Homecoming dress led to me finding a recent listing for the same time-warped dress

  • What Happened to that Dog?

    What Happened to that Dog?

    Asked Firefly to help me out and recreate what I saw on the street one day