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When I asked to take a portrait of this guy in Washington Square Park he struck this pose, and I think it turned out pretty well!

Saxophonist portrait

I like photographing musicians, and this combination of saxophonist and backdrop really motivated me to try for a portrait, so I waited until he was done playing and asked if he'd mind posing. This is one of my favourite photos from this year so far.

Dresses for sale

There are a lot of clothing stores in Soho and a lot of street vendors, but this is the first time I saw the two being combined!

On the prowl

I try and avoid taking photos of photographers, just like I try and avoid photographing people talking on cellphones, since it feels a bit too easy and cliched. But when I saw this fellow-photographer crouching at a street corner in Soho waiting for a subject to come by, I decided to make an exception. He noticed me at just the right moment.

Indoor portrait

Lately I've been trying a different mode of portrait photography, photographing slightly more formal photos of people I know. Here's one I took in natural window light that I think works particularly well.

AC Milan

Cold in winter

A sculpture on the Bryant Park fountain undergoes a dramatic change as the ice melts ...

Blue watch

I saw this guy sitting on a fence at Union Square and watching the crowd, but he got down off the fence and just started leaning against it before I could snap a photo. I went up to him and asked if he could sit on it again the same way as before, but he said "how was I sitting?". But he let me take his portrait anyway.

Russia in Brooklyn

I wasn't expecting to see an Orthodox church while walking from Williamsburg to Greenpoint!

Welcome to Brooklyn

A random street scene in Williamsburg. When you see a car like this coming down the street, how can you not take a photo of it?

Towers

Iron fence at the end of a dead-end street in Brooklyn Heights, looking out at lower Manhattan over the East River.

In Andy Warhol's shadow

Guitarists playing in front of the Andy Warhol statue at the north end of Union Square.

On the steps

I've been giving some thought to what might make a good "New York in summer" theme, or rather, New Yorkers in summer. We don't really have brownstone apartment buildings where I grew up, so people sitting on the steps outside their building is a characteristically New York kind of a thing for me. Maybe I can make a series out of it?

East River in winter

I was out shooting film in Williamsburg this weekend and finished a roll, but I think this is from back in February. A view from Williamsburg over the East River towards around 14th Street, with Stuyvesant Town in the foreground.