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A Day in DUMBO

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DUMBO is the Brooklyn neighborhood that’s Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, just to the north of my neighborhood and a hot spot for people who like living in old factories, visiting the Etsy office, and having very little access to public transportation. It also has some of the most beautiful views of the city, though, and the food and shopping scenes would make it a destination even if the photo opportunities didn’t.

It’s approximately a ten-minute walk from our apartment, which means I’ve been there exactly three times since moving to Downtown Brooklyn nearly three years ago. Luckily, my friend Ash loves to do photography walks of different NYC neighborhoods, especially now that she’s moved to Connecticut, and she invited my landlord/roommate/former co-worker/friend Jack and me up there one weekend recently to explore.

Whoever had the foresight to paint the Manhattan Bridge this insane color is my BFF:

DUMBO, NYC

Some simple, perfect iced coffee from the Brooklyn Roasting Company:

DUMBO, NYC

“Be Bklyn, Be Bold” outside of the Dabney Lee stationary store:

DUMBO, NYC

THE iconic DUMBO shot of the Empire State Building through the Manhattan Bridge arch:

DUMBO, NYC

Apricot flan and a French macaron at Almondine Bakery:

DUMBO, NYC

Ash showing off her Big Daddy Bar at Jacques Torres Chocolate:

DUMBO, NYC

Look! Someone’s attempting to make a Brooklyn lock bridge a la Paris:

DUMBO, NYC

DUMBO, NYC

The Manhattan skyline with the addition of One World Trade Center right there in the middle:

DUMBO, NYC

The Statue of Liberty off in the distance at sunset:

DUMBO, NYC

This isn’t street art; it’s just lazy:

DUMBO, NYC

Roasted pork baby ribs at AlMar:

DUMBO, NYC

Jack’s whooooole fish:

DUMBO, NYC

The perfect finish at the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory:

DUMBO, NYC

Ohio Historical Society Wedding: Dayna and Matt

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To give you a little backstory, my best friend Tracey was randomly paired with Dayna as a freshman in a dorm at THE Ohio State University, and they went on to be roommates for the remainder of college, through different dorms and apartments. I got to know Dayna through ringing her doorbell in the middle of the night when my car got towed while I was at a concert on campus and being a bridesmaid in Tracey’s wedding with her and going to the local pumpkin festival together for years and scrapbooking every year over Christmas break while I’m in Ohio and a million other girly things.

Dayna is quite the photographer herself and has a million artist friends, so I was beside myself when she asked me to photograph her marriage to Matt at the Ohio Historical Society’s Ohio Village. It’s an adorable old-timey town with barns and wagons and outhouses around every corner, so it was not only a beautiful but also a really fun setting. Dayna was stunning and somehow so relaxed, and Matt was sarcastic and quippy the entire time, and I really couldn’t have had a better day photographing their looooove.

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Ohio Historical Society Wedding, Ohio Village

Eye-Slashing Kittens, Ohio Sunsets, and the Fear of Winter

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Ohio has been on my mind lately what with my being unemployed and yet not having visited yet (obviously I’m waiting for the pumpkin festival next month), so here are a few photos I dug up from my last trips there:

This is Graham, who belongs to my BFF, Tracey. When I’m in town, she goes off to work as usual for most of the week, and I stay at her and her husband’s house with the cats. Usually the cats sleep in their bedroom (Tracey’s and Dan’s; the cats don’t have their own bedroom) all day, but sometimes they’ll wander downstairs to see who’s crying in front of yet another episode of “Enlightened” and find me. Rupert is generally happy to turn back around and ignore me, but Graham will stare me down, reminding me that he had the chance to kill me once and didn’t take it. I’m sure I’ve told you this, but before Tracey and Dan owned their own house with a separate office, craft room, and Katie’s Roomâ„¢, I used to sleep on the living room couch when I’d visit. When Graham was just a kitten, I awoke in the middle of the night once to see him flying across the couch from one armrest to the other, his claws outstretched and coming for my eyes. He could’ve had me if he’d wanted to. And he won’t let me forget.

I get so used to my horizon being saturated with tall buildings that sometimes I’ll be leaving Olive Garden with Tracey and our friend Katie and will just be struck by the sight of the sky. Ohio sunsets are amazing, and this wasn’t even a remotely interesting one, but I just remember my heart swelling at this in the middle of some dumb parking lot.

As we were leaving for the airport after my Christmas visit, my dad took me to the barn behind our house to show me these icicles, which formed at an angle thanks to the crazy wind coming up the hill they live on. As much as I’m loving the cooler air and the opportunity to open my windows for the first time since March right now, I’m so, so anxious about winter this year.

OHIO!

The Statue of Liberty from Red Hook

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The view from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, which is basically unserviced by NYC public transportation and has to be reached by car on the one weekend a year when my landlord/roommate/former co-worker/friend Jack borrows one from his parents in Staten Island:

Red Hook NYC

Red Hook NYC

From my donuts4dinner post about the chocolate-dipped key lime pie on a stick you can get there from Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies.

The Brooklyn Promenade

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When you walk to the end of my street, this is your view from the Brooklyn Promenade:

Brooklyn Promenade, NYC Skyline

Brooklyn Promenade, NYC Skyline

The new World Trade tower, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, the whoosh of the traffic on the BQE down below. Watching the sun come down and Manhattan come up gives me that feeling of how-did-I-get-here? every single time.