Goodbye NYC

In 3 hours, I'm hailing a cab and heading to the airport. Eventually, I am flying to Paris where I will connect to my short flight to Prague, Czech Republic. This is where I will spend the next four months. While I'm so excited and sure I will have a life-changing experience, I am also anxious. I love this city and since I moved here exactly (to the day) two years ago, I have not left for more than 3 weeks at a time. I also have an intense fear of flying to make the trip even more nerve wracking. I'm sure once I get there and settle in I'll have a great time but these past few days it has been a little hard to say goodbye to what I now consider my home. From brown bagging at the waterfront with people I love to the ability to order vegan meals at restaurants, I am going to miss a lot about this wonderful city.

























Hopefully I'll be able to post photos form Prague sooner rather than later but I'm sure the next week is going to be quite hectic.

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So a couple of weeks ago I bought a Yashica 124G at a flea market. It is in great condition and fully functional - and I got it for about 1/4 of the price that I would've paid otherwise. I ran an expired roll of Agfa Optima through the camera and while I'm still getting the hang of the camera, I'm pretty excited about it.

Quick trip to DC

This past weekend I visited my family back in the DC suburbs. It was a little weird seeing that I said my goodbyes- In a bit over a week I'm leaving for Prague for the semester. I saw my friend Nora who spent the last two years in Serbia and went to a concert with my brother Nick. Saturday night I saw a new DC band with Josh read from Revival and Justin.

Sander revisited

In this past Fall semester I did a multimedia project about my good friend Sander. I didn't post it here, well, for many reasons. Part of it was that I didn't feel it was finished. I still don't think it's quite there but I polished it up a bit and feel a little better about it. For those who don't know me very well, I decided to take on this project after my repressed memories from witnessing the accident came back in June of 2009. It's been interesting, frustrating, and at times fun to work on this project and overall made it easier for Sander and me to talk about what happened years and years ago. While Sander and I joke to make light of the accident, when it comes down to it, it was a terrifying experience that changed both of us and our friendship. Luckily the physical consequences were relatively minor (all things considered) but neither of us escaped unscathed. We are both also very tired of telling the story, so now we have this to do it for us.



Thanks to the Avery family for the extra photos from the hospital stay.

Tarrytown, NY

Recently I've been buried under the stress of a summer course and the impossibly frustrating task of moving. I'm packing up my things and moving them into storage while simultaneously packing for my 4 month stay in Prague AND clearing out all of my apartment since I will be moving to Brooklyn when I return. It's definitely crunch time however it seems I've been spending a lot of time in my room procrastinating rather than being productive. I haven't even gotten to shoot much with my new Canon S90 - a fantastic, versatile little camera that takes good photos without the bulk of my 5D.

Today was different though. I went to meet Noah in midtown to grab a late lunch before he had to catch a train to go shoot a wedding. Because of some inconveniences, I ended up being over 10 minutes late and having very little time to see Noah (between my class and packing during the week and his work on the weekends, fitting in time to see each other has been tougher than usual.) So, instead of returning back to my apartment to sulk over empty cardboard boxes, I bought a ticket and got on the MetroNorth train to Tarrytown, NY.



After a 40 minute ride, Noah caught a cab to get to the wedding location and I wondered around the small town. It's definitely not the most exciting place in the world but it was great to get away from the city during the beginning of tourist month. I wandered, read a little, wandered some more, and then caught a train back. Nothing too exciting but I think it's safe to say it beats packing. It was interesting, however, to wander around a suburb that wasn't my own. For all you DC-area readers (aka my Mom), it reminded me a bit of Kensington- small and closed on Sundays. It's nice to see a suburb of an East coast city that isn't hellbent trying to be a city itself (I'm looking at you, Bethesda). Tarrytown is a little rough around the edges visually but it makes it all the more interesting and sincere.












Unfortunately, the sun didn't come out until my train ride back to the city, however it made for much nicer photos. Also Tappen Zee, where the Hudson River widens, is beautiful. I hope in the next few weeks I get the chance to take the train up in that direction and spend some time by the water. The final photo is Harlem, right before MetroNorth disappears underneath Manhattan.