Saturday, September 20, 2008

Sheila came to New York!
This weekend we're celebrating 11 months together and today was spent enjoying the City. We visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had lunch in Bryant Park, did a bit of shopping, went down to the South Street Seaport, enjoyed Cuban tapas for dinner and then found our way back home. Here are a very small sampling of photos from today's adventures...

The new Greek and Roman galleries at the Met provided ample inspiration. Personally, I aspire to this man, and perhaps will start gaining more respect after wearing an animal on my head and perming my beard.


Asmat canoe: made to seem unusually long by keeping a short depth of field. Sheila gets the credit for this one.

You won't believe what they put on the roof of the Met! Giant inflated poodle! Actually it's a work designed by Jeff Koon and is made of steel. Could have fooled us, though.

Sheila strides about gracefully... at the Egyptian Temple of Dendur.

I fall in love with baby Snapple. Then fall out of love with it after drinking some.

Sheila borrows the hat to pose in Bryant Park after lunch.

We got away with setting up a tripod inside the New York Public Library at Bryant Park. Nobody bothered us at the end of a long hallway, so we had some fun with the great lighting and shadows.


At the Seaport, shortly before a police (or security?) officer (believed to be the blurry figure in white approaching us in the shot) stopped us. No tripod use in the Seaport apparently...but we still got away with it on the pier, taking the next few shots.


Brooklyn Bridge at night, with the current "New York Waterfalls" exhibit (by Olafur Eliasson) on display. This was one of four waterfalls visible from the pier.