My First Trip to the Brooklyn Museum

I'm usually a Met person. It has been my habit, for most of my life, to default to a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art if a more specific plan for NYC did not exist. 

For example: "Let's go to the city!" "Yeah!" "What should we do?" "....we could go to the Met." "Okay!"

But now that I live in the city, a whole new world of museum possibilities has been opened to me. The Brooklyn museum has turned out to be especially convenient (since I live in Brooklyn and all), but in the the three months that we've lived here I hadn't actually gotten myself there. So a couple of weeks ago my good friend Trent came to the city, and the above conversation occurred almost exactly, except that curiously enough we didn't even consider the Met - good old Brooklyn won out this time. And we were not disappointed. Although the Met will always be my main museum squeeze, I'd have to say I think the Brooklyn Museum is my new boyfriend on the side.

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The Making of a Masterpiece

Recently my husband and I had the pleasure of getting together with friends of ours, Sean and Laura, to make a short film. While I've made plenty of silly internet videos in my time, I learned that silly internet videos are a lot more fun (and a lot less silly) when you have real equipment and someone that knows how to use it...thank goodness for friends with film degrees. 

I took a few photos during our impromtu shoot, and you will find a link where you can watch the finished product below.

Watch the finished product here.

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After the storm

Honestly I've been avoiding making a new post this past week because I wasn't at all sure what it should be. As soon as Hurricane Sandy hit, I felt like as a photographer I should be out there capturing all of the gritty, awful images of destruction. But something just didn't feel right about that to me, and the longer I waited the more pictures other people took and eventually I just felt that there would be no point in more pictures of the same horrible scenes. Don't get me wrong, I think there is something important about documenting life, no matter how horrible, but I almost felt that I would have been intruding on a sadness that was too personal to so many and too impersonal to me, who was hardly affected by the storm at all. 

But still I wanted to acknowledge the occurrence of Hurricane Sandy, so I decided to do something different. I collected some of my favorite pictures of the city (Some in Brooklyn, some in Manhattan) as a reminder of what we have been, what we are, and what we will be again. It's a very small gesture, but I hope that it just serves as a tribute to how beautiful the city can be and a reminder that one event will not stop that.

So enjoy these pictures, and check out this article on treehugger.com to see what you can do to help victims of Hurricane Sandy: 

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/12-ways-help-hurricane-sandy-relief-efforts.html

Rogers Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens - this one's for my sister.

Prospect Park...or Middle Earth? Sometimes very hard to tell...

 China Town.

The best thing about New York? Sharing it with amazing friends. Photo with amazing friend Lydia, taken by amazing friend Trent.

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