Fall in Pennsylvania

It rained every single day last week in New York. I had serious doubt that the Saturday photo trip to Pennsylvania would be possible at all. But after driving 2 hours west into Northern PA, it turned out to be a great day after all.

6th year......

This fall marks my 6th year away from my home country. I started as a graduate student in Buffalo, NY in the fall of '99 (from tropical islands of Indonesia to snow central of Western New York, quite a change eh? :) and I end up in the great city that I now call home, NYC. Here's a homage to my home away from home.

BW

I was browsing through some shots I took during a workshop earlier in the year. I wasn't happy with my original shot, so I played around with a new BW conversion method I found on the web. Here's a few of the result.

Tribute of Light

In memory of WTC and the people that perished in the tragedy. Taken from Dumbo in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.

2005 US Open

Its September again, and in NY, its tennis time. Its a great event for sport photography enthusiast since you can really get close to the game without having to buy expensive telephoto lenses. Provided you know where to go of course. Your best bet would be in the preliminary rounds that are held in the sidecourts. I was able to get pretty close with my 80-200mm f2.8.












US Open

Katon

Interesting night last night. I was asked to take pictures for an event celebrating Indonesia's independence day done by Indonesians in New York. One of the performer was Katon Bagaskara, former lead singer of Kla, once one of the most prominent band back home. Kinda strange that here I am, living so many miles away from home, yet the last two concerts that I saw were of Indonesian musicians. It kinda sucks here in NY, tickets of bands that I wanna see, like U2 are usually gone within a couple of minutes of it being sold. Frustrating really. And I'm not gonna pay 2-3 hundred bucks for scalpers in eBay. But hey, I wouldn't be able to take pictures upclose like this. Not to mention that I had a great time, singing along while taking pictures :P....

I'm back!!!!

Ah...Finally back to photoblogging. This last three months had been hectic. Getting married is a lot of work apparently :P...but I made it to the other side in one piece. So here it is, my first post as a married man :)....while testing my newly acquired Nikkor 105 Macro...