I spy: a good blog series

I really like sfgirlbybay's "i spy" series. Here's the most recent one. Here's one of my favorite ones.

Clotheslines

Chalkboard black

A secret garden

Summer

It makes me want to start my own little I spy series! I like how she varies the theme and always seems to put one of her own photos in the highlights.

Delish.

Hello Mr. Olympus E-510

I want you all to say hello to my new digital SLR Olympus E-510, who will now be the main photographer for this blog.
He is very happy to be a part of this project, and I am very happy to have him as my early anniversary/birthday gift from Brentan. Though he is not brand new, he has some experience from a craigslister who has upgraded. It is safe to say, he is in good hands now...

Photography

I recently have been hankering to take some photos. Some real artsy, cutesy photos of interesting stuff and people. But my camera is dead.

I feel like I need a digital SLR to be good, but I don't really know the first thing about taking pictures! Can someone please just put a fancy camera in my hands, set me in front of a beautiful scene and teach me?

This was probably exacerbated by all the time I spent on Flickr yesterday looking at their Interestingness feature.

I just love it! and NYC

I just love the Cherry Blossom Girl's website. The photography is beautiful, like the picture of Antwerp above.

Oh, it just inspires me to be a photographer. Which is a little difficult right now since my camera is b-r-o-k-e-n. So I don't have any photos from last weekend in New York, and there were so many great opportunities. The only photos I have are from my co-workers, and from my friends, so I just have to mooch off theirs. Like the one below, taken at a very awesome rooftop bar in midtown. The decor was 'tropical', if you can see the palm tree in the background. Stuffed exotic animals decorated the place too, like a zebra and leopard.
I also went to the MoMA, which was amazing. (I heart modern art!) They were showing an exhibit on Dali, which was VERY crowded. I watched a few of the videos that they had- one was a clip from Hitchcock's Spellbound, in which Dali created the sets for a dream sequence. Also, Dali collaborated with the Disney studios and was working on a Fantasia-like animated sequence which was never finished. In 2003 they finished it, based on Dali's drawings and storyboards. It is exactly what you would think a video of a cross between surrealism and modern animation would look like. Very cool. And I saw a roomful of Picassos, including Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of my favorite Picasso pieces. Ah. I was in art heaven.