The Mayor

So, I woke up this morning to find a bunch of Mayor Adrian Fenty's campaign volunteers and staff members waving signs and wielding clipboards in front of my apartment building.  I had to wade through all of them as they asked me if I was registered to vote in the District. "No. Leave me alone, please." Well, one of the volunteers pointed out that Mayor Fenty was standing on the corner.  The sight of him waving a sign absolutely had to be photographed, so I went back for my camera and decided I didn't care if I was late for work.  I took a few pictures, told him I wasn't registered in DC, and he told me to wear sticker. Small price to pay for some funny photos. I thought it especially hilarious that he continued to hold the sign up as talked to people passing him on the street.  I was only two minutes late for work.

Tourists

I know we all love to hate tourists in this city, but they make for some decent street photography because they are so obliviously unaware to anything around them. I also took this photo as part of the NYT Moment in Time project. On May 2 at 15:00 UTC, people around the world took a picture of wherever they were to record a simultaneous portrait of out entire world.

Saturday Night

She'll kill me if she sees I used this photo, but it was my favorite picture of the weekend.  While a bunch of my friends were over at my house for some beer pong, I decided that I needed to get everything on film. I didn't expect to really get anything good, just some photos of my friends to put up on Facebook. As it turned out, I got several fantastic shots, including this one of my friend taking a sip of her drink before it was her turn to throw.  There are so many elements that I just love about this photo. The plain curtain background, the vignette, the arm extended with the ping pong ball at the tip of her fingers, the cup covering her face, and just the overall sense that she had no idea I was taking a picture.  Without further ado,

 

The Sydney Opera House

Hello again. I'm sorry. Here's a picture.

I went to Australia for a little while and made my way to Sydney.  I took a couple pictures of the Opera House and then pretty much gave up because it is so difficult to take a unique picture of one of the most photographed buildings in the entire world.  I was talking about that with my friends as I was walking along the boardwalk when I turned and saw this reflection.  It was about as good as I was going to get.

Boston

Eye candy for you all since I haven't updated this thing in way too long.  It's a bar.