Category: April Photos

Two cuties in one photo! Vincent peers out from the basket atop the bookshelf, while the topmost portion of our stuffed Murakami doll creeps up behind him. Who will win this fight? I’m going with the cat.

Uh-oh, battle of the hipster cats! Here’s Emmitt, about to get into some trouble with the turntable…let’s hope he can “scratch” better than that documentary by Doug Pray!
The seven-inch on the decks, meanwhile, is a Team Doyobi release on SKAM. Judging by Emmitt’s disapproving facial expression, I’d wager he can’t stand the distorted electro-grunge of Manchester’s best. “Take that, Coolfer,” he seems to be saying! 🙂

Vincent, again seeking trouble in high elevations…Believe it or not, this door is 38 feet off the ground, and I was standing atop a gigantic ladder while taking this excellent shot. When Vincent tried to descend from the precarious perch onto which I’d placed him, all in the name of artistic photography, he ended up ricocheting off my own perch, causing me to fall and black out for four hours.
The F-stop on this photo was 3.0. Or is that shutter speed?

I pulled this photo from my December 2003 archive of cat snapshots. I really like the way Emmitt appears to be contemplating something of great import: “O, this life of mine! Shall I leap from the balcony, and strike pavement below? And will I live, or die? What is death?”
There’s a reason my ex-wife called Emmitt “our four-legged philosopher friend.” 🙂

Nap time! Did you know cats sleep all day and night? (Well, at least when they’re not listening to white labels or reading Kierkegaard dissertations.)

My grandmother took ill recently, so I had to make a sojourn back to Red Bank and pay her a visit. Of course, I brought my digital camera! Here are some “artsy” shots I took of the fields behind her house while my brothers and sisters were caring for her.

Here we are again, a few hours later. I really like the way the light works with the shapes in the foreground. My aunt said Grandma was nauseous, so I wanted to give her some space and went outside again, taking the opportunity to shoot more photos. You know, when you’re given lemons, you make lemonade!

After all the positive response to my photos from London, I realized I forgot to post snapshots from my February trip to the 2004 European Advertising Conference in Berlin, which has now, thankfully, been free of the infamous “Wall” for more than a decade. Above is a shot of the stoic facade of concrete about which President Reagan so elegantly implored, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!”

I don’t really know what this is, but my German hosts said something to the effect of it being a relic of East Germany’s attempts at building architectural marvels that could rival the West’s creativity. All I know is, this isn’t something I could safely pitch as an ad concept to Nestle or GM and feel as though they’d get it.

I just returned from my business trip to London, and wanted to post some “brilliant” photos of the world’s loveliest city! (That’s what all the UK-based ad agency executives I met with said whenever they liked something, or thought it was cool…”Brilliant!”) Anyway, here’s their equivalent of Times Square.

They have all these public restrooms over there, too…really amazing. I didn’t have the need to use one, thankfully, so I don’t know if you need to insert coins to use them, but I bet they cost more than a “quid”.