Shoot. shoot and shoot some more

Merry Christmas!

I just came back from doing a night-time shoot in the holiday-lit New York City on Christmas Eve.

The City was warm, beautiful, cheerful and full of armed cops to protect my expensive equipment.

I did Park Avenue, St Patricks, a crazy place across St Patricks, Rockefeller Center and Times Square.

Last time I did anything resembling this was London two years ago. Thank God tonight was warm. London pictures came out great but I still shiver when I think about how f***ing cold it was on the night the girls, vavchuga and I went out to do the shoot back then.

Apparently, people tend to notice the equipment I'm using cz I got asked several times as to what it was. To boot, I believe I might be inadvertently responsible for an elderly gentleman perhaps buying an $8000 Canon after a ten-minute conversation about the film-to-digital transition, reduced sensor sizes and how much that sucks. He was excited. His wife was not. She was making negative faces at me, as in "Dont put any ideas in his head, you asshole!".

I think she has other plans for the 8K in question.

Now, for the romantic twist. I saw a guy proposing to his girlfriend at exactly midnight on Christmas on the Rockefeller Center ice rink. Call me a softie but I couldn't help but feel warm and fuzzy seeing that. She accepted, too, precipitating a burst of applause from an excited crowd.

The preview on the camera shows some good stuff. Hopefully, the final result will be even better. So as soon as I finish post-processing Olympic National Park (one panorama to go), I just might work this into my schedule next month.

I need someone to do Photoshop post-processing for me, cz I am totally behind. Any volunteers? "Have Photoshop, will travel"