After roughly a week and a half in Australia, we spent my last full day on the continent checking off another item from my trip’s bucket list. We set off Monday morning to take the train back down to Fremantle, then caught a ferry to a small island off the coast of Perth known as … More Rottnest Island
With one day of our wine tour behind us and two more ahead, we began our second day in Margaret River at Canal Rocks. The granite coastline of this most Western edge of Yallingup has been carved into a small channel by the waves of the Indian Ocean making for yet another incredible natural structure … More Wine by the Glass; Sculpture by the Sea
When we last left off, Emile, Penelope, and I were waving goodbye to the martian landscape that is The Pinnacles in Nambung National Park. The day was already drawing to a close as we began the two hour drive back down south towards Perth, but there was still a bit of daylight left and our … More Marsupials and Margaret River
It’s been almost three years since two of my dearest friends moved from New York to Perth, Australia. They’ve been back to the States several times since then including their wedding ceremony last fall, but in all that time I had yet to make the journey to the other side of the globe to visit them. That all … More Do You Come From a Land Down Under?
2017 has ben an…interesting year, to say the least. We are truly living in a strange new world that many of us are continuously trying to come to terms with. Abnormal is the new normal and reconciling this fact with my usual expectations and guiding principles has been a tremendous challenge. While I’ve been doing my part to stay … More Bat Country
When we finally hit 5th Avenue, the scope of the march became clear. The chanting crowd stretched for blocks as far as the eye could see with no apparent end in sight. Unprepared tourists were caught by surprise as they stumbled out of department stores lining the avenue and made futile attempts to walk against the … More Part 3: United We Stand
The enormous volume of people crowded together in one place rendered cell towers all but dysfunctional which made it tough to get my bearings. After crossing a few more blocks of marchers at a standstill, I finally came across a group that was making some progress (if rather slowly) heading West along 42nd street, and I joined up with them. Access … More Part 2: The March to Mordor
On Saturday, I joined the 400,000 people in New York City (and the over 3 million people across the country and around the globe) marching not only for women’s rights, but also in direct protest of the recently inaugurated 45th President and his party’s insidiously dangerous platform. It’s rather difficult to put the experience into words, but suffice it … More This Is What Democracy Looks Like!
A week ago we had the first significant snowfall in NYC, or at least the first one in which I had the wherewithal to bring my camera into the city to catch people battling the flurries. We tend to live in a state of denial when snow first begins accumulating and it’s always entertaining (in a ludicrous … More Snow Days, Fluorescent Nights
At long last, 2016 has finally come to an end and the new year could not begin quickly enough. As rough as the past 12 months have been, it’s important to remember that we have some very challenging times ahead, but for a few hours on December 31st we can be forgiven for setting our worries … More New Year’s Eve
Each year during the holidays, the MTA takes a break from its usual soul-crushing inefficiency to treat New Yorkers to a bit of subway nostalgia by operating a handful of vintage train cars around the city. I’ve seen them in passing over the years, but never took the opportunity to have a closer look, but this year was a … More Vintage Subway
Back in September Fujifilm released the X-T2, the latest in their professional tier of X Series mirrorless cameras. Coming in at $700 cheaper (thanks to a generous sale in light of this new release) now seemed like a great time to pick up the T2’s predecessor, the X-T1. Given this relatively hefty discount, it seemed like a reasonable choice … More Fujifilm X-T1
It took me about a year, but I finally bit the bullet and began a subscription for Adobe’s Creative Cloud, complete with Lightroom and Photoshop. I’ve always tried to avoid a heavily processed look in my images (mostly because I didn’t know I what I was doing), but after just a few weeks of playing with the software I’m … More Life with Lightroom
A couple of days before my friend Emile’s wedding, he, the other groomsmen, and myself got together for the bachelor party which was a few months in the making. As a full-fledged Australian, however, we’ll go with the more culturally appropriate term of “buck’s night” in honor of the groom. The four of us kicked … More Buck’s Night
Another weekend, another brief trip to the best West Coast. This time I was there for one of my best friend’s weddings and had a bit more free time to explore the sights, sounds, and flavors of the Bay Area as opposed to my quick visit to San Francisco last Spring. On Friday morning before bachelor … More We’re Going Back, Back…
Though it’s rather cliché, it’s been a while since I’ve been playing around with long exposures and thought it was high time to get some shots of light trails around Manhattan, particularly near the Fuller building (better known as the Flatiron). Late on a Saturday evening, I set up my tripod around 23rd street to get some shots before realizing … More Midtown Lights
As my camera kit continues to grow, the latest additions are a 12mm wide-angle lens from Rokinon (made specifically for Fuji x-mounts) and a pretty affordable, lightweight, and versatile tripod from Dolica. The reviews for the Rokinon glass all touted its great lowlight performance, so, equipped with my tripod I thought I’d try some long exposure photography … More Long Exposure
A few months ago I came across an article by Jonas Rask, a photographer I recently began following on Instagram. In it, he outlines a few techniques for emulating movie stills from photographs and I’ve been excited to give it a try ever since. The primary tool Jonas mentions is Photoshop, but I’ve only been shooting with my cameras for a … More Movie Stills
While the rest of the city was rushing to midtown to capture shots of the bi-annual phenomenon earlier this week, I thought I’d avoid the chaos by staying in Brooklyn and trying out my Fuji 50-230mm zoom lens on the sun setting over New Jersey and the Hudson. In reality, I would have loved to be in Manhatten … More In Lieu of Manhattenhendge
This 4th of July weekend has ended up being a stay-cation for me, and with the few nice moments of sunshine we’ve had in the city so far I decided to head into Manhattan on Saturday for a quick photowalk which is something I feel like I haven’t done in ages. My first stop was the Lower … More The Great Bridge
By Saturday morning the festival lifestyle was definitely beginning to catch up with us. Luckily there weren’t any bands scheduled who we were particularly excited about seeing until later in the afternoon, so we set out for some food and people watching in what little shade we could find. The communal atmosphere was palpable everywhere we went and it … More Bonnaroo: Part Two
With peak wedding season rapidly approaching, I feel like most of my friends are in the midst of blocking out travel dates, attending summer ceremonies, or preparing for their own impending nuptials this Fall. The latter is indeed the case for one of my closest friends, Andre, who resolved to attend the annual Bonnaroo musical festival in Tennessee for … More Bonnaroo: Part One
As is the case with most of my meetups, any semblance of chronology is lost as the week becomes a blur of work, food, and intermingling with coworkers I only see for about 1 month out of the year. However, at some point we managed to scramble onto a bus and ascend Mount Royal which overlooks the city … More Montréal: Deuxième Partie
It’s been roughly six months since my team at work have all been in the same place at the same time, so in true Automattic fashion we recently descended upon an unsuspecting city to convene, cowork, and explore. This time around: Montréal, Canada. Coming from New York, I was sort of blown away by how quick and … More Montréal: Partie Un
With the prospect of lingering Spring weather becoming a reality, I thought this weekend would be a good opportunity to try out my newest zoom lens; the Fuji XC 50-230mm. It’s a fairly entry-level lens, but its light weight and image stabilization make it ideal for street photography at a distance. I headed back over to Bush Terminal Park now … More Industry City: Zoomed
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