Prospect Park South

I've mentioned over the past couple of posts that I am moving, but thankfully, I'm staying in the same neighborhood.  Prospect Park South.  Obviously, I'm not going to broadcast anything more specific than that over the intertubes, but the area is gorgeous.  I love it.  The historical feel is lovely, there are so many fun places to go, and it feels slightly more suburban, and far away than many places in the city.  I love living a half an hour train ride away from the craziness of midtown Manhattan.

Here's why.

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Brooklyn Snowpocalypse

So, New York City has basically been hammered with snow this year.  

I know that a lot of other places get way more snow than we do, but given what we are used to, this year has been pretty ridiculous.  

Last year, the term "snowpocalypse" was coined, and I think it's pretty genius.  It describes especially well those four days in the end of December when everything shut down- the subway near me didn't run. 

 For four days.  

I live off of the Q and B trains in Brooklyn, and they are outside, but below ground, which means that they are essentially in a ditch.  It's kind of hard to get snow out of a ditch efficiently.

The snow has been gorgeous, not going to lie.

I love how it makes this place look- it's rather magical, in fact.

The second huge snowstorm wasn't quite as life-altering as the first one. All of the subways were running just fine within twelve hours, which was quite a feat for MTA if you ask me. 

I was able to get to where I needed to be, which was preferable.  

But some of the results of the snow were still really crazy- signs were unreadable, traffic lights were blocked so that that they only revealed dim glows of pink, yellow and light green.  

Store overhangs collapsed due to snow.  Peoples' cars were frozen solid.  

We even saw a taxi that had crashed and been on fire.  Here's a photograph of the wreckage:

In any case, I'm hoping there isn't more crazy snow.  Light snow would be fine!  Actually, I really like that.  Seeing snowmen around and such is very pleasant, but not being able to get to auditions really isn't.  I'm ready for spring... but I'm enjoying this while it lasts.

All of these photographs were taken in Prospect Park South, Prospect Heights, Flatbush and Park Slope

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Lazy Days

Wow.

 For currently being so gung-ho about my photography lately, and for really wanting to get new readers and keep old ones... I have been just miserable about posting consistently. Totally lazy, in fact.  I keep having days where I am too busy, where I forget etc.  There was a time when these posts were ready to go five days in advance, edits all done and such.  Lately, I've been posting the moment I'm done writing, then I've been going back and editing.  Or, I will stop writing in the middle of the post, do something like Danny is doing in these photographs for like five minutes, and then put it down and make myself a cup of tea.

 A lot of this has to do with the fact that my Blogger photo limit has been reached.  This means that I can't upload photos directly from my computer any more.  I either need to start paying Blogger (Google) a bunch of money for more storage space (ridiculous), or I need to take an extra thirty seconds or so and upload each photo to a hosting site to give it a url.  Now, thirty seconds is like no time in the grand scale of world history, and my own personal life.  But, when I have seven photographs in a post, that's three and a half minutes- if my internet is working well (and my computer is fussy as all get-out, so often that's not the case).  This really is not, or at least shouldn't  be a big deal, but darnit, the process annoys me and it has kind of put me off from updating this blog, fun and interesting as it might be. And that stinks.  I love this blog, I love sharing my art, I love hearing from my readers.  To be turned off by an aspect of it is quite, well, depressing. Deflating, even.  I don't like it.  However, I am working through these issues, and hey!  This is a post, so I guess I'm not all that depressed about it.  

Honestly, I'm just happy to be getting something artistic done... it feels great.  I can't wait to get to my next acting job (whatever that might be).  I can't wait to share the ridiculous number of photographs I have taken with all of you.  I'm just... I'm excited.  I'm thankful to have a perfect boyfriend, nice apartment, amazing family, wonderful friends, fantastic readers, and to have successfully opened a pretty cool shop.  More stuff will be added to it soon, I promise.  It's just a bit of a time consuming process, but I will have things listed.  But, yeah.  I'm just happy :)

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Model: Daniel Garrison