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An Early Winter Walk to Brooklyn's Pier 6

November 26, 2012

In slow recovery from what seemed like a nasty bronchitis, I ventured out on a cold late afternoon, chasing a light that did not truly happen. A low cloud layer had blinded the sun like a hood placed on a falcon's head, temporarily crippling it. I walked down to Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 6 just in case, snapped a few shots and hurried back home as the wind whined, reminding me I should be sheltered and warm. Cruises are back in action, so is the Staten Island Ferry Lower Manhattan Bis Great view from...

Ten Bridges - A Long Run Around Manhattan - Part I

September 18, 2012

A few weeks ago, I did a 30K run down the entire length of Manhattan, almost a duplicate of a run I had done last year. It went decently well, if one gauges success by the lack of absolute misery and a fairly quick recovery. So this Saturday, after months of risk versus benefit analysis, I decided to raise the stakes and go for a really long run. Now me, I don't like crowds, so the idea of rushing off an organized event's start line along with 20,000 other friendly runners just doesn't appeal. However I admit that...

A Cruise Ship Medley

July 26, 2012

New York is mostly-water and all-glamour. No matter where one stands in the city, there is a patch of water in sight or not very far. So given the prestige surrounding a visit to the Big Apple, it is not surprising to see cruise ships line up at the gates of the NYC Harbor like fleas waiting for a bite into a dog's tender parts. They all seem to sail off around the same time, late afternoon. Casting off from their main terminals in Brooklyn and the Hudson River, they steer south and eventually end up sailing past the...

Transhumance to the Jersey Beaches

July 23, 2012

One gets desperate. With New York City waters looking mostly like cold, milked-down coffee, the need for cleaner ocean eventually reaches a tipping point and drastic solutions are sought. One of these, draconian yet logical, is a trip to the infamous New Jersey beaches. Having researched the topic and asked around, you might decide to launch into such an expedition and set your sights on the Manasquan station, three stops north of Bay End, southern extremity of the North Jersey Coast Line. Some 60 kilometers from...

Travel to the Macroverse - Part 2

July 18, 2012

I recently started revisiting the macro universe. The pictures in here are a follow-up. First, I got up very early one morning to go visit some Brooklyn gardens and parks in the stillest air I could summon, but dawn is already quite hot and dew cruelly absent, so my success was mitigated by breeze and dryness. The next shoot was done during a walk through the woods of Staten Island's Wolves Pond Park with a few members of the New York Mycological Society. While everybody crouched and discussed pores, gills, stems...

Coming soon...

July 12, 2012

A rant about my barefoot running struggle. A cruise ship medley. More glimpses of the macroverse. Stay tuned! For now, here is a peculiar scene of an ant nursery. I lifted a log recently in Staten Island's Wolves Pond Park, in search of salamanders. What I found instead was a busy ant nest. As soon as exposed, the poor insects began frantically relocating their nursery, and I snapped a few shots. Only once looking at the image full-screen back at home did I realized what I had captured. The shot below shows ant...

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