Blog: Photos

Easter in Hilton Head

posted on Apr 12, 2008 8:47 am (comment)

tags: photos

Buildings, driveways, an escalator, and a party

posted on Mar 24, 2008 8:11 am (comment)

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In mid-January, I went back to the Google office to see some old co-workers and return some computer equipment that was in my NYC apartment. I grabbed a few photos of some of my favorite cute things around the office, the sorts of things that make working at Google a little less stuffy and sterile than your typical company.

posted on Mar 6, 2008 5:32 pm (comment)

tags: Google, photos

A New Year

We celebrated New Year's Eve in New York with friends, for the penultimate (in the correct sense of the word) party in my apartment there.

posted on Mar 5, 2008 8:37 pm (comment)

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Prior revelry

In August, I got a new digital SLR camera for Thailand. But recently, I took a few pictures with my old compact, and when I downloaded them, discovered a bunch of old pictures. Here are some from Central Park, a brunch with a bunch of Stanford Law grads in DC before Shelley and Gregg's wedding, and Gene's surprise birthday party in New York.

posted on Feb 28, 2008 5:20 pm (comment)

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Nice pictures

DCist ran a contest, DCist Exposed, to select amazing photos of DC for an upcoming show. Here are my favorites:

Dupont at Dusk by Sirchek
Bikers Break by intemporelle
You're about to... by krisetya
Cold Night in Arlington by sduffy
Stairs #4 (Red Lady) by andertho
Abandoned Bakery by Ronnie R
Red. Light. District. by chapulin colorado

Update: This rooftop panorama by morganglines (via DC Metrocentric) is spectacular.

posted on Jan 24, 2008 1:43 pm (comment)

tags: photos, Washington

Holidays with family

I posted some of these pictures a while back, but forgot to link to them from the blog. This year, we celebrated Thanksgiving with Stef's family on the actual holiday, then traveled to Boston the following weekend for Thanksgiving with my family and our annual Hanukkah-Christmas celebration with family friends. My parents visited DC two weeks later, followed by Christmas with Stef's family again, for a wonderfully family-packed month.

posted on Jan 9, 2008 6:49 pm (comment)

tags: family, photos, Stefanie

Bad urbanism on the Potomac waterfront

In December, I got into an interesting debate on the Dupont Forum neighborhood list about my feelings concerning the Third Church landmarking. Lance, who considers the building a "masterpiece," asked if my desire to get rid of most 1970s-era buildings in downtown DC extended to more widely praised structures like the Watergate and Kennedy Center.

I replied:

The Watergate and Kennedy Center are, as mid-20th century buildings go, pretty nice, and I'm not in favor of razing them. However, they still do not represent good urbanism either, especially when considered in context with the Potomac River Freeway which was built around the same time (the West Leg of the 1971 Inner Loop plan, whose cancelled North Leg would have ruined Dupont). Both buildings are clearly designed for cars and with a more suburban sensibility, such as the way the Watergate has an interior park but presents a mostly blank wall to the streetscape. Most land around the Kennedy Center is used for getting cars in, out and around, than for human beings.

I added that I hadn't really had a chance to explore those sites in detail, which prompted me to take a walk down there for some photos.

Flybys

Cities are beautiful at night, New York especially. Last weekend we flew to Boston for Thanksgiving with my family (we spent the actual holiday with Stef's family this year). It's amazing what a difference the camera makes, especially in low light. I had my new(ish) Canon Eos 30D with me on this trip, and was able to get these pictures of New York and Providence, while I've never been able to successfully capture a city at night with any lesser camera.