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Which is the moon?

Looking east along 14th Street from the corner at Ninth Ave.

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To LaGuardia

I don't know if that's where she asked to go, but she has a suitcase.

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Blue hour above the Rubin

Walking along 17th Street, I looked up and this caught my eye.

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Autumn's arrival

On my walk out of Chelsea Market in the early morning, I came across the new pumpkin display at the Manhattan Fruit Exchange -- a sure sign that autumn has come to the city.

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Lower west riverside

At the western end of 15th Street, where the road ends at the West Side Highway along the Hudson River.

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Kitty love

Cat and wife on a quiet Friday night at home.

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Food porn!

For our anniversary dinner, Casey and I went to Gramercy Tavern -- just hours after Michelle Obama had lunch there. (And some people freaked.) This was my first course, whole spelt spaghetti with sungold tomatoes, capers and basil. I remarked that it looked like a spaghetti cocoon.

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First colors of fall

Just 100 days to go! On the first day of autumn -- and Bruce Springsteen's birthday -- I went up to Garret Mountain for a 3-mile run on the loop road and the path around Barbour Pond. As I drove in, I caught a glimpse of this tree just starting to sprout its colors for fall. After my run, I drove the one-way loop again to stop for this shot.

Day 265 of 365

On Greenwich St.

Standing at the corner of Greenwich and Christopher streets in the West Village.

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Reflective Manhattan

I caught the late afternoon light on a West Side high-rise next to Frank Gehry's IAC Building.

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The ultimate Pittsburgh pennant

An original flag from Shea Stadium, flown back in the days when they used to fly the NL cities atop the ballpark. It's so large, this is really the only wall -- at least the only undecorated one -- in the house big enough on which to display it.

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Get that cursor!

Though he's jumped on the coffee table dozens of times, this was the first instance in which Harry noticed the mouse cursor on the screen and tried to get it.

This is a screengrab of the video:

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State issued

Time for a new license. Four years later, I've got a little less hair, a new shirt and went to a DMV that has you stand a little further from the camera.

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Guard cat

Watch out! He'll attack your ankles if you try to shoplift.

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Don't eat anything

I'll hold them to it!

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Big piggy bank

As autumn draws closer, the sun sinks lower by the time I'm heading into work, so the photos opportunities are getting better.

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Flying high over Manhattan

Showed a friend from L.A. the High Line this afternoon before I went into work and as I looked up before heading down to street level, I noticed the sun shining on a plane high above and the sky reflected in the windows of the Caledonia condo building.

Day 256 of 365

Brooklyn in Manhattan

Nothing too special about this one. Was stopped at the light on 18th St. at Eighth Ave., looked over, and liked the melding of the reflections in the window and the displays in the store. I did take a more closely cropped shot first, and it shows more detail in the reflections and displays, but in the end I liked this one better.

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Signs above the street

I'd taken a shot of this colorful billboard a few weeks ago, from an angle further back on 30th St., only to have my camera and computer screw up the transfer. While not the same, this one worked out OK, too.

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More how it felt than how it looked

I actually kinda love this shot for what it isn't: accurate. It wasn't this foggy (though it sure felt like it), but the effect comes from the fact that my little Canon Powershot was in my bag next to a cold bottle of water. So when I brought it out and exposed it to the warmer, humid air, it fogged up the lens. I didn't realize it at first -- I thought it was just on the LCD screen -- and took the shot. Then I looked at the lens and saw the condensation, so this was the only shot I took.

Day 253 of 365

In Hoboken, remembering 9/11

Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009, the Tribute in Light beam rises until it meets the cloud cover. Commuters exit the PATH and Hoboken Bus Terminal. Behind me, Steelers fans drink and talk above the DJ at Texas Arizona as the NFL season prepares to kick off.

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Skyline sunset

After I polished off a taste Shackburger, fries and Shackmeister Ale (probably the best beer at Citi Field), I caught the clouds and fading daylight above the old scoreboard skyline perched atop two of the Danny Meyer restaurants out beyond center field.

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Park here

Some of the other stalls at the Clifton train station were occupied by bikes, but this one looks like it's been vacant for some time.

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Stoplight self portrait

I was about to reach for my sunglasses at a stoplight when I noticed my reflection in them. So first, I took this photo. Then I donned the shades to reduce the glare.

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Morimoto

The red curtains over the doorway to Morimoto at Chelsea Market on 10th Avenue.

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Gameday!

College football is back. Let's go Irish!

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Light of the full moon

I tried to move around to get the streetlight from the parking lot out of the shot, but was unable to do so. Still came out pretty well, I thought.

Update: Submitted for plants

"The wilds of New York," August 2009

On the High Line

With the opening of the High Line park, New York's urban landscape features much more of both parts of that term. In letting native plants grow atop the trestle, the urban becomes more wild, creating dichotomies like these.

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Where Nighthawks once roosted

This corner is believed to be where the diner that inspired Nighthawks was located.

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The Windmill

For my birthday, I headed home to have lunch with my parents at The WindMill in Long Branch. I chose the original specifically to sit on the second-floor deck at the base of the red windmill and look out on Ocean Blvd. and the ocean. I shot the tower reflected in the back window of my mom's car as we headed up the road for ice cream at the Lighthouse.

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Journal Square's namesake

Was killing some time in Jersey City's Journal Square while waiting for some friends to get off the PATH and so I looked around and contemplated the section's namesake. Then I thought of Herald Square and its defunct namesake and Times Square, whose paper has moved to the west and no longer actually sites on the square (which isn't a square at all, but still ...).