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Funny English: ‘As Old as Hills’

Even if the English had been rendered correctly, “As old as the hills” would still make no sense as a slogan.

The Space Between: New Camera

The Space Between: New Camera, originally uploaded by Adam Kuban. This is the first “Space Between” photo taken with our new Canon S90. It’s a great little camera.

What is with the abandoned building on Vernon Boulevard under the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City?

It’s a question I asked just today on Facebook and was pleased to get an answer within minutes. From the New York Times‘s Christopher Gray in a March 1987 Cityscape story: The Queens Terra-Cotta building, built in 1892 as the first structure solely for offices of the growing concern, was designed by Francis H. Kimball, [...]

‘Be a Chairperson’

You can’t really read it in this photo, but the piece of tape on the backrest says, “Free.” As seen on Fourth Avenue near Union Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Tyger! Tyger!

I was looking for some travel toiletries in this drug store in Berkeley, California, on my Pizza Madness 2009 tour when I turned the corner and saw this. It actually startled me at first; I thought it was an actual animal sitting there in the aisle.

Dogs on NYC Subway Flickr Group

The Woman and the Beagle, originally uploaded by antonkawasaki. I don’t know what struck me today, but I ended up starting a Flickr photo group: Dogs on NYC Subway. It’s pretty self-explanatory, but I should note that it also includes any MTA trains (so Metro-North, LIRR, and SIR are fair game) as well as subway [...]

Official White House Flickr

P042909CK-0021, originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream. From a Flickr commenter: I really appreciate the behind-the-scenes pictures. We hardly ever see photos of the White House staffers who keep things going – the butlers, secretaries, floor-polishers. Work is dignified and everybody who does work has dignity. Publishing these photos means the White House [...]

365.95: Colorful corrugated metal

I must seem like a beginning photography student, taking all these pictures of corrugated sheet metal. What can I say? I like the colors.

365.94: Charlie and Jeff at the Five-Star Diner

I usually don’t include pictures of friends or family in my "365 Photos" series because to do so means I have to make them public. But that proscription means that I have to leave out some great photos that often sum up the day. This one, of my longtime friends Charlie and Jeff, was too [...]

365.93: Pizza at Tonda