From St. George to Whitehall on the Staten Island Ferry. Two Coast Guard "gunboats" raced to nowhere with lights flashing and if they had sirens they would have been wailing too.

On a bridge over the Charles River.

Out on the fishing pier this guy was taking a midafternoon nap.

Coney Island again this afternoon. New Nikon Coolpix P5100 camera, dropped one Samsung and kicked the other, so out of convenient video cameras. I am sure this will fill up my harddrives nicely.

Took six(6) videos of different Cyclone runs. I just wanted the first drop. Spliced them together in QuickTime Pro.

Again with the fireworks.

Last night at Coney Island (06/27/2008) fireworks finale.

First night of fireworks at Coney Island.

Coney Island three times last week, twice at night and once on Sunday. Some of the many, many images I took; most of them were on Sunday from the fishing pier.

I was standing on the pier talking to a young fisherman and as I was taking pictures about five or six people came up to me to ask me to take their pictures with the rides in the background. I gladly complied and then took their pictures with the rides and then had to explain to them about the Parachute Jump as I moved them to where I could take their picture with it as the bacground.

Last year in Vienna I was out walking and crossed a bridge over a small train yard.

Pre Xmas gathering at my sister-in-law's

Instead of taking the LIRR from Penn I decided to take it from Jamaica. I took the "J" Train (Jamaica Avenue el) from Essex and was fortunate to have a semi-clean front window.

I hadn't been on the Jamaica Avenue el in the daytime since high school. When I was going to school in Brooklyn, Bishop Loughlin, I sometimes took the Myrtle Avenue el to Myrtle Avenue changed to the Jamaica Avenue el to 168th Street and then the buses home. This was instead of the more direct route: "GG" Clinton Washington to Queens Plaza and then the "E" to 169th Street and then a walk to the 165th Street bus terminal.

Because of the length of the trip and the limitations of Youtube and anyone who views the video, I broke it into six segments:

• Essex to Marcy over the bridge
  
• Marcy to Myrtle
  
• Myrtle to Broadway Junction
  
• Broadway Junction to Cypress Hills
  
• Cypress Hills to Woodhaven
  
• Woodhaven to Parsons Archer
  

Essex to Marcy over the bridge


Marcy to Myrtle


Myrtle to Broadway Junction


Broadway Junction to Cypress Hills



Cypress Hills to Woodhaven


Woodhaven to Parsons Archer

Couldn't even afford a flashing red light!

Budget cuts are happening all over the place. There is no organization safe from them:

Ride up to Dyckman Park via the A Train.
Video of ride from 155th Street to Dyckman St.

Staten Island Ferry from St. George to Whitehall.

Waiting for the Staten Island Ferry watched this young girl play "pickpocket" with her father's MetroCard and pocket.

Down to Coney Island again last evening for the Friday fireworks. Took some good images of them and put them together in a slide show. I have uploaded a version to YouTube:



Had great audio, but alas it is copyrighted so I have removed it.


I can email full sized images if anyone wants them.

Manhattan side of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Sunset over the harbor, taken from water taxi pier in the East River just below Wall Street. It is a sequence of stills put together in a Quicktime movie. The individual images are at .25 seconds.

There is a copter landing from the left.

Found a time lapse video I made in May 2001. I put a web camera at my window and had it take a picture every 15 seconds and then left for work. I returned home later that evening and this is the result:

I was awakened early this morning by the sound of fire engines going down the street. Usually I fall back to sleep as they continue down East Broadway past my window; but this morning they stopped in front. Now I was awake. I live in an old tenement and with the engines stopped just outside; it was time to investigage. I looked out the window and saw that the main activity was two doors down so I could put on some clothes and go out on the fire escape and take some pictures.

Here is a video pan of the engines that showed up for the show. It is taken using the video mode of my Canon PowerShot A95:



B&W version using B&W in the video mode:

Second You Tube upload. This one is a set of still images taken in sequences and put together into a "movie" I like how it tricks the eye into thinking it is has movement. I know that is what a "real" movie does, but this isn't as smooth and yet it still tricks the eye. I had a audio track of a Ray Charles song with it, but copyright rules would frown on it in a public space.

Did my first You Tube upload. It is a movie I took from the first car of an A Train on the way back from JFK. It is pretty hokey, but if you like looking out the door of the first car it isn't bad.