Sit down Lunch
Sit down Lunch
Image by psd
Lunch is a serious business in France.
Lunch and dinner, Feb 4
Lunch and dinner, Feb 4
Image by eskay8
Friday was a snow day, which messed with my schedule a bit, so I decided to take a dinner for tomorrow and stay late to finish some stuff. The soup was recently discovered hiding in the back of the freezer. I’ve been trying to use up some of the stuff filling up our freezer, since it’s getting rather crowded. That said, I made stock today, which is just going to go into the freezer…let’s just say its an ongoing battle.
The bottom container is lunch, soup and sandwich for dinner.
Lunch with one of my most favorite people on the planet
Lunch with one of my most favorite people on the planet
Image by Earl – What I Saw 2.0
Goofing around after a great lunch at the Chinese Buffet in Waugh Chapel – I definitely hammered some of that excellent Mongolian Grill! – with my very good friend, Bob. He lives in southern Delaware, near the beach, about three hours from me now, so we don’t get to hang out so much since he’s moved.
He works for NASA. If you ever asked for a picture from a space flight, or a satelllite image, he was probably the one that found it and sent it to you.
Spending time with good friends, the ones you see all the time or just once in a while, is one of life’s great pleasures, and man, I appreciate it when it happens!
Life is often good. Today was one of those days.
Plus I’m completely digging the way those lights are reflecting off the top of my head – so I’ve got that working for me too, which is nice.
Lunch break
Lunch break
Image by Ed Yourdon
These guys were sitting on the concrete wall that forms part of the median strip between the east side and west side of Broadway, at 92nd Street. They were taking a lunch break, and I thought it made for an interesting scene. Behind them is a large pet-supply store that dominates the corner of Broadway & 92nd St.
Note: this photo was published in an Oct 30, 2009 blog titled "Lunch Break."
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan — between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
As I indicated when I started this project in 2008, I don’t like to intrude on people’s privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they’re still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what’s right in front of me.
I’ve also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting — literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I’ve learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture … after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it’s pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.
Thus far, I’ve generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don’t want to be photographed, and I don’t want to feel like I’m taking advantage of them. I’m still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We’ll see how it goes …
The only other thing I’ve noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They’re probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I’ve photographed … but there was just nothing memorable about them.
Lunch Time
Lunch Time
Image by Isolino
Caught this squirrel eating his lunch. He was digging in that tree and found some lunch.
Lunch and dinner, March 11
Lunch and dinner, March 11
Image by eskay8
This weekend I made ~50 potstickers in various shapes. Yay for freezer food. Dipping sauce off to the side somewhere.
Lunch 2.0 is in the pink
Lunch 2.0 is in the pink
Image by tychay
Lunch 2.0 is in the pink
Ning, Palo Alto, California
Nikon D200, Tokina AT-X PRO 16-50mm f/2.8 DX
DxO (noise, lighting), Photoshop (CHLomo)
1/25sec @ f/2.8, iso800, 26mm (39mm)
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Lunch 2.0 @ Ning. “Let’s get social”
A couple days earlier Chris Nuttall of the Financial Times called and asked if he could come see a Lunch 2.0 “phenemon.” Sure, we’d love for him to join the conversation.
He had already talked to Gina, so I introduced him to the other founders of Lunch 2.0, Jeremy Pepper (whose back of his neck is pictured here), and then www.bub.blicio.us. We got a nice little writeup in FT for it. Cool.
One thing I like about wedding zooms is that you can quickly crop the shot to something more on the range of what an old rangefinder would shoot. I should do that more.
Lomo postprocessing. The trademark of all my Lunch 2.0 shots.
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Lunch Remnants
Lunch Remnants
Image by Creative Nickie
My friend took me to iHop for lunch. I had the Country Omelette with pancakes 
Lunch at Ikea
Lunch at Ikea
Image by Mr. T in DC
Our lunch today in the Ikea (College Park, MD) cafeteria, salad, salmon, carrots, crispbread, Swedish meatballs, Lingonberries and mashed potatoes.
