Fall has all but come and gone which means this year’s Automattic Grand Meetup is just a few weeks behind us. The company returned to Whistler, Canada, though this was my first time in the region as I missed last year’s meetup to attend a friend’s wedding. Having been two years since seeing most of … More Whistler, CA
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!
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
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
I spent a few days in California this past week which, surprisingly, marked my first trip to the San Francisco Bay Area. Anyone who’s been tells me that I would love SF, so I was excited to check it out and stop by the Automattic offices which I hadn’t visited in the more than two years since starting … More Fake Tales Of San Francisco
I’m usually a bit reluctant to do any street photography in my own neighborhood lest I annoy the other residents, but the lighting was too good to pass up today and I decided to venture down to Bush Terminal Park on the edge of the Bay Ridge Channel. Hidden on the far side of the industrial zone in Sunset … More Bush Terminal Park
This past weekend I got on a bus and made my way west for a day trip to the City of Brotherly Love. I’ve never actually spent any significant amount of time there and, more importantly, my friends Alex and Aremo moved out that way almost a year ago and I had yet to pay them … More 12 Hours in Philly
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