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the turn @ national underground
My first Turn post of 2010. And the band plays on…
Because they were in the city this night for a show, I decided to make a whole fun night of it and brought some friends along. We had a great dinner at Stanton Social (so delicious) and then went over to listen to the Turn rock it. And I took pictures, of course.
This was quite the challenging shoot as the location was so tight, with poles in the middle of the stage area, horrible bad lighting (if for no other reason, I want them to make it huge so we can get some decent lighting for their shows!!) where Patrick was purple for the whole show, and they had Chris (the drummer) smooshed back into a little cubbyhole. Still made it work and got some decent pictures. Not the best ever, but still okay. Which is especially unfortunate because they played SO well that night and I wish that the pictures reflected that better.
Thanks for another rockin night boys! And a special thanks to my girls Dawn, Laura and Beth for coming out with me!
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poppers
On the way back home from a shoot (a totally fabulous shoot btw) in Brooklyn Heights I decided to run into Chinatown since I was right there and pick up dinner from our favorite restaurant- Peking Duck House. I totally forgot it was Chinese New Year and Chinatown was a total zoo. But I somehow got parking and ran in and out of the restaurant, only stopping long enough to pick up 3 ‘poppers’ for the boys.
Upon seeing them, they decided they didn’t want to wait for morning to try them out (which ended up being a good thing cause I couldn’t twist the freakin things open no matter how hard I tried. John had to do all 3.)They had so much fun popping them open all over the kitchen.
I’m still finding little bits of paper all over– in the refrigerator, on the stove, in cups. And I have no doubt they’ll be cropping up in the oddest places over the next few months still.
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16. version 3.
The last installment of the Florida Dec/Jan trip’s snapshots. Again, was lazy with the numbering but you can figure it out.
1. Timmy & John at Dolphin’s game.
2. Miami (blurry but gorgeous) sunset.
3. Jack self portrait.
4. the view from the apartment’s balcony. ahhhh.
5. the view from the front of the apartment. Love me some A1A/Ocean Ave.
6. Jack @ the driving range.
7. lens envy
8. John trying out golfing again. Not going too well with his back.
9. Orange Bowl Iowa vs. GT
10. A tired mommy and Timmy at the Dolphins.
11. Green and sunny.
12. the ‘christmas room’ at the Bubble Room on Captiva Island. Bubble bread. Yummmmmmmmy.
13. florida.
14. Roman who is the ‘soup nazi’ of the cafe at the apartment. Good thing he likes me though.
15. the view toward the pool from the apartment. at sunset.
16. the surrey with the fringe on top that we rented on Sanibel. That was so fun!
And so the florida adventures draw to a close. Sniff sniff. Well, until I go again with Robin the first weekend of March.
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waving goodbye (not yet really)
On the same day I took the star pictures up at the boys school for the yearbook cover and back (you know, the day I played spidey and had to climb up a ladder and out a second story window onto the roof), I did the ‘wave goodbye’ shots as well. Since I don’t have approval from all the other parents, I’m only posting Jack & Patrick’s pictures.
And for those of you commenting that there are so many more pictures of Timmy than of the boys, before you think I’m playing favorites just remember that J & P have had 5 and a half additional years of pictures than Timmy and they are really wanting nothing to do with pictures anymore. I’m trying but they are fighting me at every chance they get. Hopefully I’ll get some good ones at Disney when they’re not looking and distracted.
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timmy & the lifeguard shack
After all the years going down to Hallandale, Timmy and I finally walked the other way on the beach and found this awesome lifeguard shack. While the big boys were with John and Hakka at the driving range and at Gulfstream, Timmy and I had a little adventure and photoshoot.
Ok, I know there a lot of pictures and a lot of them are similar but the kid is just so freakin cute, I couldn’t narrow it down any further.
Played around a little with the tilt-shift lens (by lensbaby). Still working on getting the hang of it, but it is pretty cool.
Caught the sunset on the way back. Amazing how quickly the colors change.
