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Work Sweetness

Determined to survive this school year, I have to cherish what aids my survival… area sweet treats, my new team and work time shenanigans. To start, a huge vegan chocolate chip scone and oat milk scone from Roots Cafe before I discovered it had two ants crawling on it. Doh! Read more…


Birthdaze 2021 🥳:
Pretty Rochester, NY {Pictorial}

Turning Point Park Durand Eastman Park & Beach


Birthdaze 2021 🥳:
Sunflower Field Slash Pumpkin Patch
in Riverhead, Long Island

Right around my birthday you can sometimes find a farm with a pumpkin patch that is still got blooming sunflowers. These are the center of a Venn diagram of my love of summer and my love of fall. They are a festive find that I associate with my birthday… and Read more…


The Adorable Lambertville, NJ &
Some Killer Vegan Pancakes 🥞

On a mission to photograph Lambertville New Jersey’s abandoned train car, I stopped in the sweet small town for a fantastic vegan breakfast and a stroll through a heck load of charm. Lambertville is right across the bridge from New Hope, Pennsylvania, home of Sprig & Vine. Both cities are Read more…


The Return of the San Gennaro Feast 🇮🇹
And Some Vegan Options

For me, Manhattan’s San Gennaro Feast marks the change of seasons… the goodbye to summer and the welcome of autumn. It’s also one of my favorite things to photograph in New York City. I strolled through, regretting I had eaten such a big breakfast as I could do nothing but Read more…


Misplaced Mermaids 🧜‍♀️ at
𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕽𝖊𝖓𝖆𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝕱𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖊 🏰 ⚔🛡 (2021)

Though it was Time Travelers Weekend at 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕽𝖊𝖓𝖆𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝕱𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖊 I’d be representing my mermaid wares! You see my dear mermaid friend was no longer available to go to Pirate Weekend, our original goal. Not wanting to waste a promotional opportunity, we mermaided up for a day at Read more…


Scenes From a Summer, Part 3

Before the Autumn breeze, some more scenes from a Summer. Bridge stalking… Somebody’s watching me Sign of the times Happy to be a brunette again! A stop for dim sum at Tofubox after my haircut in Williamsburg, Brooklyn I made my 90’s concert stubs into a fabric… 💖 Homemade marshmallows Read more…


Through the Night With the Light From Above

With the new moon overlooking Port Bay, New York, the Milky Way came out to play. Merged faces caught by the ultra wide 📷 Shooting stars 🌠


Scenes From The Great New York State Fair 🎪
with Vegan Options 🌱

On the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse is the annual The Great New York State Fair. Being a fan of carnivals, state fairs have been on my bucket list for quite some time. NY ❌ State Fair Core Vegan Eats at the New York State Fair, 2021 Though there Read more…


Scenes From a Summer, Part 2

A picture purge while Summer moves along… Clouds attack. Lots electricity in the air. The Golden Hour. Narrows Botanical Garden rose check-in The Sun… see what I did there? So much beauty Red velvet from Little Cupcake Bakeshop This stuff rocks. Preserving the summer’s hairstyle before it changes… Bunny Lebowski-inspired Read more…


Letchworth State Park (Night)

And with the moonset the enormous blob of white light fell past the horizon at Letchworth State Park, leaving me great conditions to shoot the Milky Way, which seemed to originate from the park’s iconic steel bridge. But while the light was still bright (below), it illuminated the waters around Read more…


Letchworth State Park (Day)

The highly accoladed Letchworth State Park is one of New York’s gems. Though I knew I was more interested in spending time there after the sun and the moon set, given its darker sky but close proximity to Rochester, the daytime brought easy views of the park’s prominent features: waterfalls. Read more…


This Place is for the Birds 🐦

After viewing posts taken at the location for one of my favorite places, I decided I would not contribute to its cheesification (“Cheesification” happens when the top posts of a location features half-naked women trying to be sexy in a beautiful place. Besides my view that trying to be sexy Read more…


The Milky Way on Long Island’s North Fork

You know how the full moon makes some turn into a werewolf? The New Moon turns me into a wild brog with a tripod. But alas, the slither of land that is suspended in front of Connecticut’s shore is light polluted. Still, some nice faint Milky Way shots: At Custer Read more…


Take A Walk
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Pictorial


The Little Island on the Hudson
Plus Vegan Options

Last time I was on Chelsea’s Pier 54, it was to see Guided By Voices‘ “last” show in 2004. Now the pier is Little Island, an innovative public space that was all the rage when it opened this Spring. With several attempts to check it out thwarted by various reasons, Read more…


Scenes From a Summer

And just like that… August. Traveling since the end of school, it has been nice returning to my bed. Yes, I took a picture of my reunion with my bed after roughing it so much on the road. Other home goals was finally getting my craft desk built and my Read more…


The Stars & The Sunflowers

Though a bright sliver of an orange hazy moon illuminated Long Island’s North Fork so brightly, the Milky Way waved hello faintly. And though I am attempting this shoot again next week, with the arrival of the New Moon, the subtle Milky Way is still so dreamy. ❤️ 🌻 🌌 Read more…


Shrine of the Immaculate Virgin
Mount Loretto, Staten Island

It isn’t until you experience the death of someone close to you that you decide what you believe–what makes sense to your heart, what makes sense to your hurt. Because what is and the life of your emotions don’t intersect sometimes. Resourceful buggers, some emotions can sustain themselves in a Read more…


Coney Island Scenes
And Some More Vegan Options There

Jumping into Coney Island after many days of being away, my love for Brooklyn surged. There is nothing like this place. Nowhere. So while waiting to get into the Brooklyn Cyclones game, I had to capture all I could as it hummed and buzzed and knocked into me and didn’t Read more…


Busy Brooklyn (and Queens)

With a friend in town, it is busy times in Brooklyn and Queens, starting with a mermaid shoot at Jacob Riis in the Rockaways. Of course we had to jump in the water with record-high heat! Before and after the Atlantic ocean… Brekkie at Le Petit Monstre.. despite everything looking Read more…


Oceanside {Pictorial}

For all intents and purposes, Summer is here. This I have declared since the season slips away so fast. Here is my trying to capture it at Nauset Lighthouse Beach on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. It’s the least I can do with my index finger. And yes, it is the Read more…


The Darkest Sky facing The Atlantic 🌟
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Some Carl Sagan Love

An astrophotographer who lives on the East Coast is a glutton for disappointment. With the entirety of it lit up like a Christmas tree, nary a dark sky in sight, photographic astro missions are often unsuccessful in spite of all my efforts. So when I decided to tack on a Read more…


Cosmic Nature 🔴 🔴 🔴
New York Botanical Garden

Wanting to catch Yayoi Kusama’s Cosmic Nature art installation throughout New York Botanical Garden‘s beautiful grounds, I took a quick trip to the New York City borough I am in least often… The Bronx. With Spring’s blooms in effect and warm weather, the winding paths were bustling with life. It Read more…


Pretty, Pretty

It’s the season of pretty, when color comes back to captivate. Spring has a haunting power that beckons, that determines winter’s way of life no longer tolerable. Inside the inability to capture this intangible, pictures of colorful things that impart a small fraction of its feeling. Counting the colors of Read more…


Pictures of the Hoodoos at Montauk Point

The glorious beauty of the Montauk shore, which looks upon a sparkling unending blue, is that it contains hoodoos,–rock formations etched into the bluffs. Here they are stretching from the grounds of Camp Hero State Park to Montauk Point State Park, a location I filed away in my brain for Read more…