The Party's Over Here

Just a reminder to practice restraint, because you could end up feeling this way the day after. Taken in a shop window, near Union Square.

Holiday Greetings from the South Street Seaport

Taken from the corner of Pearl and Fulton Street, in one of the oldest and most preserved historic districts in New York City.

Happy 4th

Sonya celebrating her independence in her own little way…

This one is best if viewed large (click image)

Nice Little Slice of Hell

It was a loud night on my street for this New Years Evening. Not because of celebrations, but because multiple electrical transformers decided to explode around 2am. There was acrid smoke, fire, and exploding arcs emanating from several manholes. This resulted in brownouts for most of the night that made my lights flicker and the use of electronic equipment impossible.

**On a side note, fire fighters are much more comfortable with photographers around than the NYPD...

C9 Sonya / Happy Holidays

Downtown Brooklyn, Holiday Season 2010

The holiday season for our year of 2010 is upon us and that can mean only one thing, decor! While everyone in the city will undoubtedly be marveling at the gigantic tree in Rockefeller Center, I would like to bring forth the festive nature of Downtown Brooklyn during the holiday season.

The newly reopened Fulton Mall, which has been under construction for an extended duration is not festively decorated for the holiday season.

The same decorated Fulton Mall at night. Cold temps, checkout lines, credit card bills, pushy crowds, non-stop Christmas carols, packed subway trains, and sore feet all make the shopping experience a blur.

Not much decor in this shot, except in the distance, but all the lights give it a nice festive feel. If that doesn't do it for you, you 'You Go Girl' tag will! Looking down Atlantic Avenue.

The Christmas Tree Fire Special stands alert on Fulton Street to combat acts of retribution carried by the undoubtedly pissed off coniferous flora that received 'the chop' this holiday season.

The use of simple illumination as a form of holiday decor on one of the buildings used by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Lafayette and St. Felix.

The Williamsburg Bank Building, also known as One Hanson Place, or as I know it, the art deco phallus, uses simple red illumination. This shot is actually a double exposure; this was accomplished by a vertical, then a horizontal exposure, position on the tripod. While I'm steeping this shot in enormous innuendo, I will say furthermore, exposure of the shot was done, as with exposing all things phallic in public, with great care...

Happy Thanksgiving 2010

Pressures from the holiday season can take its toll, the key is to pace yourself and a beverage containing ethanol also helps. This and many other tips are available from my baby niece Raegan, who says, "I don't have a drinking problem, except when I can't get a drink".

Christmas in Indianapolis

Happy Thanksgiving

More Holiday Decor around Indy

Circle Tower, Market Street entrance.

On the circle.

At the Milano Inn on College Ave.

At Khoury's on 62nd Street near Broad Ripple Village.

On Belmont Ave, near Morris Street.

In Eagledale, I really like the use of the floods and the tactful minimal use of string lighting.

Emerson Ave in Beech Grove.

Off Main Street in Beech Grove

On Broad Ripple Ave. Lights string to the house acrossed the street.

Closer up on the front; notice the lamp in the window.

Winter Time at the City Market

The Brick of the Plaza Grounds


Whoa! Almost inverted my feet.


Looking from the plaza toward the City-County Building


Closer look at the old arch.


Columns, Chairs, and Tables oh my!


One of the few warm and sunny places around these days.





South Wall.


Decorations are going up.

Lunch Break.

Its so cold, you can see buildings breathing...


One thing about living in Indiana, is that you have to be prepared for inconsistent weather.

Indy Skyline

Christmas Decor on Meridian Street, close to the Lilly/Faris Campus with the Indy Skyline in the background.

Downtown Christmas Decor

It's the holiday season in Indianapolis again, and that means lots of seasonal lighting. The Friday night after Thanksgiving known as the circle of lights, is a long standing Indianapolis tradition. I decided to scope it out late at night, because I wasn't feeling up to being among a really large crowd that night.

The first night of lighting for the 2008 Holiday Season.


Yes, I like reflections.


West end, Monument Circle


Lobby of the IPL Building. I wish they could have faced another nutcracker toward the window.


IPL Building lighting pattern now features a Christmas tree.


The Broadbent Building on the night of the lighting of the circle.


CVS on Ohio Street.

Happy Thanksgiving

A thanksgiving sunset; looking west on E. Washington Street and East Street about 5:30pm.

Happy Halloween