What this blog needs...

...are some photos.

Happily, as part of my NYC bucket-list, I took a photography class - the last class and student exhibit of which I missed due to our move.

Instead, I have provided here a few of the photos I would have considered for the exhibit. I really enjoyed the class (Photo Manhattan), but it sort of confirmed what I had suspected all along - that photography is to art what american football is to sport - over-reliant on technology for the 'translation' of what should be an elemental experience to the viewer, and therefore increasingly baffling to the 'outsider'.

In this spirit, all the photos in this post were taken with my trusty D-Lux, with no filters, no zoom, and strictly no software. No need for impressive abbreviations and jargon - call it the 'plain language movement'. What you see is what I got, and this means getting in close, and sometimes *gasp* even having a conversation with the subject!

1. The last of the summer cherries

2. The American craftsman

3. Bank Street painter

4. Post-beach pizza wait

5. Ostrich profile

6. Father Charles in the garage