Stop only.

It said “stop only” … so I did, to take a photo. As bustling as NYC is, I am amazed at how frequently you can come across empty streets like this.

249 1/2.

Sometimes it’s the little things that catch your eye, like an unusual home number on an immaculately painted, bright red door. Love all the random and wonderful things that stumble across when walking the streets of New York.

Street food.

Right next to Bryant Park, turned and saw this couple, kissed by the light of a food cart, enveloped in its smoke.

Home sick.

Only lived in NYC for about 3 months but we connected hard, so much that I feel home sick while away. Walking down her streets the other day, say this street art, felt pretty on point.

Cracked self portrait.

Found this full sized cracked mirror on the sidewalk while walking though downtown NYC.

NYC Public Library.

“Peter, at 1:40 this afternoon at the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, ten people witnessed a free-roaming, vaporous, full-torso apparition. It blew books from shelves at twenty feet away. Scared the socks off some poor librarian.”

Having breakfast on 35th St, saw a man on a bike crash into a man walking in the street. They stood up, made sure each other was ok, hugged, fist bumped and went their own ways. Kindness and care still exist, sometimes in the most unlikely of places.

Reading the Fall edition of Fast Company on the train to NYC, connected with this line in their gen AI article …

“Faced with an all-you-can-eat buffet of words, images, and sounds, we taste everything yet savor nothing. “

Feels about right.

Taken in Iceland a few weeks back, I remember it being really cold and me being annoyed by camera settings … think I accidentally nailed the “annoyance” vibe. Flattering? No. Makes me smile? Yes.

Rather than summarizing my email, would love to see a support based AI /app integration. Imagine a browser that could auto detect when content isn’t loading and tell you what settings in the app to modify to get things to render properly. Totally be down with that.

Spending the day archiving data off of a work laptop that belonged to a great person and good friend that died from cancer a few weeks back. It’s really fucking weird. He created all of this content, organized it across his desktop. It hasn’t been touched since he last touched it. Messed up feeling.

A big fan of hybrid working from work / life balance to attracting amazing talent. Read this recently, never thought about it so granularly but it makes sense.

“As soon as you’re on more than two floors, or don’t fit in one office, or are in more than one country, you are actually distributed.”

Important metal box.

Stumbled onto this old metal box, crusty paint crumbling off. Not sure what it does but I feel like it’s very much there for a purpose and I’m ok with that.

Barrens (IT).

Feeling under the weather all week, decided to go for a walk with the camera to see if it would move the needle in either direction. On the walk, apparently stumbled into the Barrens and a doorway to IT.

Hamilton strap.

The handheld LED light was great to tease out all the different textures. Great watch strap, too.

Moody bridge.

Nothing more than a bit of light shining into the covered bridge at one of our local parks.

Gas line.

Was fiddling around replacing some parts to the propane powered fire table thingy, camera happened to be close by.

Winery fence.

Took a walk up the hill to see the vines at the local winery.

Threaded.

Sadly, this string of outside LED decorative bulbs only lasted one season, they were cool while they worked.

Soft shutter released.

First time taking the Q3 out and about. Eventually made it to the local park and snapped this right before realizing that the soft shutter release unscrewed and fell off the camera, never to be found again.

Fractured glass.

Before it gave up the ghost, the little touch lamp was kind enough to give me this close up shot of the glass shade. Liked that little lamp.

Museum bridge.

Rented a Leica Q2 last year and spent an afternoon at the park outside the local museum. Fell in love with how great things looked direct from the camera, so much so that I ordered a Q3 later that week.

Keys.

Spring thing.

Not too sure what this actually is. Took the Q3 out for a bit yesterday and say this little fella on the stone wall while checking out some flowers.

HomePod.

Macro shot of the outside mesh on the HomePod. Rock on.