The Javits Center isn't much to look at from the outside. Inside, it's quite impressive. Exhibit A above. This was taken as I was leaving the 'PDN Photo Plus Expo," to which I had a free pass. It's all tech stuff, so there were innumerable photo geeks there, and not the good kind. After strolling around for a few minutes looking for the best angles to shoot this beautiful subject matter, I'd found that I'd attracted a following of fat middle-aged white guys with beards and Japanese dudes with with genuine Nikon photo vests and shiny new D3's. As soon as I was done shooting, they'd move to the same place I had been standing to take the same shot, that is, if they hadn't already chimped up next to me and started clicking.

I suppose it's a bit late to start, but the passing of summer is now just sinking in. Leaves are piling up on the curb. That "dead foliage" smell is permeating everything. I feel like the dog who hears his owner coming home after rooting through the kitchen garbage can. In a short while, life is going to suck. Winter in New York is coming.

A toast to June, July, and August - something I'll repeatedly drink to for the next eight months, or until my winter-in-mexico plan hatches.