For the past month or so, I think there has been a street fair on the stretch of Broadway at the end of my block every weekend. Yesterday, they shut down the uptown lanes of Broadway all the way from 109th (where I live) to 116th Street. After a morning spent biking through traffic with [...]
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Food, Trinkets and Pashmina on Broadway
October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Manhattan, Photos, Upper West Side
Times Square
October 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Manhattan, Photos
I camped out in the lab working on my Master’s pitch last night. I got it done fairly early. After, I needed to stretch my legs so I headed down to Times Square with the camera. Here are a few shots:
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
September 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Manhattan, Photos
Just a block away from my apartment is this incredible cathedral, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It looks like something something out Gothic Europe. It’s a truly impressive sight. I think I’ll try and attend mass there one Sunday.
Tags:Cathedral of St. John The Divine·Connor Boals·Manhattan·Photojournalism·Photos
Saturday in Kingsbridge
September 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Kingsbridge, RW1, The Bronx
For my core class, Reporting and Writing 1, each of us was assigned a neighborhood in the Bronx as our beat. My neighborhood is Kingsbridge, which is basically between the last three stops on the 1. I had so many preconceptions about the Bronx before going up there, most of them involved crime, drugs, violence, [...]
Neighborhood faces
September 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Manhattan, Photos
I had to take five portraits of strangers for my Advanced Photojournalism course. I snapped these five just walking around the block where I live at 109th and Broadway: I’m realizing, like any good journalist, that I should have asked for names.
Breaking the Fast: Iftar in Queens
September 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Photos, Queens
Here are some photos I took in August during my visit to the Turkish Islamic Center in Sunnyside, Queens:
Tags:Iftar·Islam·Photojournalism·Photos·Queens·ramadan·Sunnyside
August Photo Training
September 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Manhattan, Photos
I’m really starting to like photography. Emelie has so graciously lent me her Nikon D40 for the semester. I used it during my August photo training. Its a really great camera. My instructor was Gary Fabiano, an incredible photographer and member of the White House Press Corps. You can see his work here. Our first [...]
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