Innocent Bystander

Back from vacation with 100s of new Flickr photos!

Yes, it's true: we're tanned, we're rested, and we're back with over 200 photos from our (well...okay, my) recent trip to New York City. Below is a brief sampling...here's a link to my New York City collection of photos on Flickr. Check it out! There's sets for New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, the High Line, and my own personal NY touchstone, the Water Towers. Click on each set to see my NYC photos (available in handy slide show format).

For some reason, my High Line photos were not showing up on the Flickr link above when I first posted this entry (they are now). Click here to see my photos to this great new addition to the greatest city in the world, a re-purposing of an old, abandoned elevated train railway on the West Side of Manhattan.

And more on that trip in written form in the next few days.

San Francisco Flickr Fotos are up!

I've added a new set of Flickr Fotos...on my recent trip to San Francisco. You can view them by clicking here.

Rampant weekend Flickr-ing!

I've added a number of new photo sets on Flickr, including a whole mess of new pics I took this weekend in Coronado and Solana Beach. Also, I finally got around to uploading my photos from San Francisco earlier this month, and there's a new "collection" of all my London photos (previously posted). Click on the links or the Flickr badge on the right to view them all!

At left is a rather sad and forlorn shot of the wonderful Village Theater sign in Coronado. Coronado, most famous as the home of the spectacular Hotel del Coronado, is a quaint little vacation village located on an "island" (it's actually connected to the mainland by a narrow stretch of land known as "the Silver Strand"), just west of downtown San Diego. To get to it, you go across a huge, vaulting blue bridge that curves over towards the island. It's a great little place, and while there are many residents (it's also home to a large military base), it has the feel of a little vacation village. I don't go over there nearly enough (it's 15 whole minutes away). The Village Theater used to be an important part, I'm sure, of the fabric of the community, a small town that still holds parades on patriotic holidays. I guess it says a lot about how we've changed over the years when a focal point like a theater falls by the wayside.

Enough editorializing...click away and enjoy the photos!

My most latest, most favoritest photo...

Here's a photo I took in downtown LA this weekend. It was at a place aptly called The Blue Door, I believe. It's my most current favorite photo...more are soon to come on Flickr, once I get my act together and upload some of the photos I took on my walk along Market Street to the Ferry Building in San Francisco on a crystal-clear sunny Monday morning some weeks ago. I have other photos on Flickr...if you haven't seen them, please click on the animated "badge" on the right.

A quickr Flickr...

I had a work-related meeting to go to today over on Shelter Island, so I took along the old Instamatic™ and decided to do some random Flickr-ing. Just seven photos this time, but there's a nice shot or two amongst them. Shelter Island is quite lovely, and pretty much all hotels and marina, so it's an ideal vacation spot. It's directly across from the airport, so maybe it's not so ideal. But it's beautifully landscaped and designed. Click on the Flickr badge on the right sidebar to view the rest of the photos and all my other photos. Well, almost all of them. A guy has to have a little privacy, right?

MoPhoBlo for NaBloPoMo...

We have three new sets of photos on Flickr from our weekend in Santa Monica and Los Angeles. Please stop by and take a look. We appreciate your patronage.

This is what vacation looks like...

This, my friends, is what vacation looks like.

Those of you who know me well, know how rare this amber-filled glass is in my life. But tonight, heeding the advice of Channel 8's weatherman, I went in search of a picture perfect sunset. It didn't happen, but the clouds were pretty spectacular (see below). So I took a whole passle of new photos and added them to my Flickr account. You can click here or on the animated badge to the right to view them and all my other photos, too.

After all that pitcher-takin', I had developed a powerful hunger and thirst, so I stopped at Sally's at the Hyatt and sat outside and had a beer and dinner. Two appetizers, actually, crab cakes and jumbo shrimp. If you're ever in San Diego, stop by Sally's for the best crab cakes in town. Well, I think they are. Your own mileage may vary. It's also a great place to sit and just people watch, right on the marina behind the hotels and Convention Center.

More pictures are coming, including literally hundreds from my travels over the next two weeks. Pinch yourself!

Balboa Park Flickr-ing

Took a nice walk tonight, right around sunset, through San Diego's Balboa Park. It's this beautiful 1,000 acre oasis just northeast of the downtown area. It bills itself as the nation's "largest cultural park" and has 15 museums. Some of the buildings date back to the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition. They're beautifully ornate. I haven't added captions to everything yet, but the photos are uploaded, and you can see them here or click on the animated Flickr badge to the right.

Rampant Flickr-ing continues, authorities mystified...

Yes, we're still Flickr-ing. Once we started, we couldn't stop, because, darn it, we like it...we really, really like it. And it feels so good.

We're continuing back through the voluminous IB photo archives and now bring you 3 sets from 2004, including Los Angeles (above), New York City (to the left, and incidentally, that's our favorite picture of New York EVER--or at least of those that I took personally) and Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach here in San Diego (below). Please go visit now. I mean NOW. You'll have to scroll down a bit to find the new ones, because anal person that I am (HA! That's a polite word for what you are!), the photos are stacked in descending order from newest to oldest. Be patient. Patience is a virtue and will be rewarded. Not by me, of course. Probably not in this lifetime, either. Hey...just being honest. Don't shoot the messenger.

Whole lot of Flickr-in' goin' on...

I've added a whole mess of photos to Flickr, including a set I just took today, up in beautiful La Jolla. There's also sets on New York City (from October 2005) and a few of a recent beautiful sunset here in San Diego, up in the area of the bay known as Tuna Harbor. Why don't you visit and ooh and ahh over them and make me feel good? Just click the ever-changing Flickr badge on the right (or the link in this paragraph, above) to be instantly transported there...but here's a little taste of each (La Jolla above, NYC to the left, and Tuna Harbor below).