Saturday my daughter passed along an invitation from her boyfriend for me to come down to Brooklyn and ‘hang out.’ She said he was eager to show off his new white Negroni recipe. If you keep reading you’ll find neither the recipe nor any pictures of the drink here, but I will tell you that it was delicious, garnished with cumquats – three stuck onto a toothpick, as like olives in a martini – which I enjoyed eating during and after the drink was finished.
Recently, I had purchased a Joby TelePod tripod/selfie stick that came with a Bluetooth shutter release – I call it ‘the button.’ This gave me an idea: I prepared for the drive by rigging a cheap (ultra cheap!) mount for my phone on the rearview mirror using two purple rubber bands from the super market that had held together bundles of asparagus. I opened the camera app and got on the road.
I got a little push-button happy and took something like 140 pictures on the way down, another 200 on the way back. I edited and used 24 of them, posted them on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/joearf) and deleted the rest (well, not entirely – they’re all on my desktop hard drive where they’re automatically downloaded to from iCloud)
After driving around for a while looking for a free space, I parked in a garage on Front Street. As I was a little early, I decided to take my camera for a walk.
I tried to give these an old postcard look.
Most pictures shown here were taken with my Canon T2i (a couple with my iPhone) and edited with Snapseed.
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