Bringing Down the White Picket Fence
A Couple's Quest to Live Globally
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New York City and pizza. Two of the best things in America. So, let me tell you a little story. I know nothing about the pizzeria in this photograph, but I’m going to use this photo as my excuse to tell you about the pizzeria I LOVE in New York City. Harry’s Italian on Gold Street is just about the best thing on Earth, and unfortunately, we only recently realized it. Paul… Read More
This week’s photos are just a glimpse of our recent getaway. Early this morning, frigid Philadelphia welcomed us home for winter. For the last few days, we soaked up the sun in 84 degrees of Miami heat and returned to the shivering 48 degree reality of waiting for The Parking Spot shuttle to find us in Zone 3, Terminal A. They found us, shivering with just a touch of glow left over… Read More
Last August, Paul and I took a trip to California. It was one of those trips that I so badly wanted and needed, but I was so torn about taking. My mom was ill, and I wasn’t completely sold on jetting off to the other side of the country for a week. Paul convinced me that everything would be okay and that if I needed to, I could hop on a plane… Read More
Michelle here… Paul and I prefer downtown New York. It’s quiet and narrow and our weekends often include walks from the East River to the Hudson. There’s a little Four Points hotel on Platt Street that isn’t fancy, but simple, clean, and comfortable. It’s our respite from my workdays, and we’ve come to call it ours. Sometimes we also stay at the W, like we did this Friday, but I was relieved… Read More
The story behind this image is quite simple; I hijacked a photo shoot. Michelle and I took a journey to California last summer. While in San Francisco, we signed up for a food tour of Chinatown. We met our guide at the gates of this famous region and proceeded to eat in various restaurants throughout the neighborhood. There are many beautifully crafted murals throughout the area. I was lining up a picture… Read More
When I see clam strips on a menu, my memory takes me back to this building. I also like to sneak an order in when Michelle isn’t looking. Most people recognize this place as the Robinson Ale House, but for me, it’s the Howard Johnson. Its orange exterior has since been painted to take on its more modernized existence. I remember it as the place my father and I went to eat… Read More
Asbury Park has gone through quite a renaissance over the past ten years. There are not many places left that give you the feel of the old days in Asbury. The Wonder Bar is one of the few places left untouched by the restoration projects. This image struck me as the tale of the little guy being engulfed by modernization. A beacon of the past in the face of the giant new… Read More
Street photography has been a genre with which I have become more and more fascinated recently. It is very different from landscape photography in a variety of ways. When I shoot landscapes, I am very methodical in the way I set the shot up. I usually have my camera on a tripod. I set my aperture and shutter speed and check my ISO setting. Then I make my exposures. I have the… Read More
For the first six of our eight years of marriage, Michelle and I spent our wedding anniversary away from home. We celebrated in beautiful places like Florence, Provence, and Napa. The last two years we have celebrated close to home in our favorite little city, Asbury Park. We are trying to make the best out of our present circumstances, so we spend our day lounging by the pool at the Asbury Hotel,… Read More
Hi everybody…Paul here! As you may have surmised, Michelle and I have not been doing much traveling and therefore, have neglected our blog. We are grounded for the foreseeable future due to family health issues. So, I decided to put up weekly photos to keep our blog alive. Michelle is busy working, so you will have to deal with my lousy writing for a while…sorry about that! Once we hit the road… Read More
Bringing Down the White Picket Fence 