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Past Weeks Preview

Where to begin? My last few weeks have been a whirlwind of adventure and LOTS of photography. I think I’ve taken over 1,000 photos since May and have had little to no time to review them for posting here. I really need to improve upon that for myself and for my viewers who are always asking about what I’ve photographed lately.

To stem the tide… here is a small post with a few photos from each event I captured in the 3 weeks or so:

Me and My Pals in NY: In June I vacationed in NY, NJ and PA with friends from London

The Crew: Gaurav, Gareth, Ryan and James

In this photo, James got frisky. Gareth and Ryan didn’t know when to cross.

Here I am busting shots, ready or not.

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Gay Pride Parade 2009: Long overdue for a post, but I photographed the Pride Parade in New York

The colors really do scream, “happy.”

Makes me wonder what the clothing would be like if the parade was held in the winter

Fun for the whole family

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The Dollhouse: The NY/NJ Dollhouse is a safe space for professional lesbians & bisexual women to meet, network and enjoy their “lifestyle.”

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Harlem, NY – Apollo Tribute for MJ

I visited the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NY two days after Michael Jackson died.

Thousands of names were scrawled on a wall in memory of the deceased pop star

This child danced for hundreds of Michael Jackson fans, dressed in sequenced glove and hat.

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As always, you can view my steady stream of photos as I share them on the social photography website, Flickr: http://www.Flickr.com/VisualSense

Life / Philadelphia / Photography — 1 Comment
17
Mar 09

Sk8 Patrick’s Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

Or rather, “Sk8 Patrick’s Day,” as the title eludes. is what I call the photo walkabout that Melody Kramer (her photos) and I embarked on this past Saturday, March 14, 2009.

The day started out like any other… lazy Saturday, no plans. Everything was normal and dull until Melody reached out across the the Twitterverse for some companionship on a photowalk through the city of Philadelphia. I obliged and met her in Center City.

Started walking towards City Hall where we ran into St. Patrick himself

We took the shortcut through City Hall where we came upon the skaters (don’t call them Sk8ers).

We moved on from City Hall to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul where Melody snapped these great photos inside. We left there after a brief walk through, I didn’t take any photos. We met the “tour guide” who confessed to us that he’d only been on the job for 2 hours. His name was Dan, look him up at the Cathedral and tell him Melody and Vince sent ya *wink*

We had lunch at TGIFridays on the Parkway and watched as many a drunk bar crawler stumbled by our window seat. Stepped out side and found the green scene:

These were taken on the Saturday BEFORE St. Patrick’s day.

Melody and I walked over to LOVE Park, world renown skateboard park in Philadelphia, PA:

Nom Nom Skater Bench

Some body wants the ring Or is this the toolbox of LOVE Park?

Attention sk8ters, we have a poser

Then, I said goodbye to Melody.

Entertainment / Life / Photography — 1 Comment
7
Mar 09

Watchmen

Watchmen promo event at Brave New Worlds in Philadelphia, PA

Friday night I went to the 9:45p screening of the highly anticipated graphic novel-turn-movie “Watchmen (2009)” with friends. One thing, if you see the movie this weekend, get there early enough to ensure your crew can sit together.

All things considered, I enjoyed the movie immensely. We saw it in an IMAX theater at the AMC Loews 24 in Cherry Hill, NJ. Very small theater despite being IMAX. I’m used to bigger screens and better seating at the Neshaminy AMC theater. Despite the movie being 3 hours long, it didn’t feel like it. Sure your body gets tired from prolong sitting, but my mind never wandered. I was always deep into the film. There are a lot of great visuals, subplots and psychological twists in the film to keep you engaged. At times, it can be a little campy and corny, but let’s face it, it takes place in the 80’s!

My critical review of this movie in 3 words: It was good. You definitely don’t want to be the only one in your crew who hasn’t seen it THIS weekend.

SPOILER: There's a lot of PENIS in the movie. You'll see.

Life / Philadelphia / Photography — 3 Comments
2
Feb 09

Presenting: Philadelph.com

Hey loyal visitors and those passing through. I want to apologize for not being faithful to this blog by updating it regularly. At least, I don’t think I update this enough. I don’t have much new to report, other than I’ve sold a few photos since my last post and I’ve met a LOT of great, local photographers in Philadelphia, PA.

The last part of the first paragraph is what has spurred me to embark on a new project, called Philadelph.com – The website will focus exclusively on my photography of my hometown city of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It’s run on the Tumblr micro-blogging service. The photos presented there are culled automatically from my photostream on Flickr.com

I urge you to follow it’s RSS feed for updates.

For more personal updates on my life, thoughts and actions… I can be followed on the popular, social tracking service, Twitter at username: attila (look at the “Twitter Updates” in the column to the right for snippets of my stream of consciousness)