Monday, September 10, 2007

New York...take 1!



It never ceases to amaze me that one day I can be riding my bike through remote vineyards in the mountains above Paso Robles and the next day strolling down Broadway in Manhattan!
This past weekend I headed out to New York to shoot a wedding with my friend TJ and got a few hours to do some exploring. It was a whirlwind trip; left home at 4am on Friday, returned at midnight Sunday, but we still managed to see a bit of the city and shoot a very cool wedding in Harlem.
We stayed at the very hip Hudson Hotel. This place is so hip, in fact, that it doesn't have a sign out front or even an address! At night the entire lounge area becomes a pretty happening club with socialites galore. The first night we just relaxed a bit then Saturday we went out for a run around Central Park (which was just a block away). I got a bit carried away and ended up running a bit further than we planned. So after about 6 miles we grabbed some lunch and headed out to a very cool wedding with Susan and Alan. It was a very nice New Yorker wedding which was so fun to shoot despite the high temperatures and high humidity!
The next day Jason and TimCo picked us up and we all headed down to Jason's studio for breakfast. Haha, I love how New York diners do breakfast! There is definitely no veggie omelet and when they say bacon omelet be assured there will be more bacon than eggs!
Good thing I love to travel and have some great friends to hang out with and shoot with when I'm there because I will be back there in just a couple of days! Stay tuned for more pics from that trip!


The view from our room


Looking over the Jacqueline Kennedy reservoir


I love that you can get just about any meal delivered at just about any time to just about anywhere in the city! And even better that they deliver in "I love NY" bags!


L to R -> TJ, Me, Jason, TimCo

4 comments:

Tim Halberg said...

nice man!! so jealous of the trip!!! I can't wait til my trip out there in Nov.!! too awesome you guys all got to hang out!

and yeah, food in NYC is hard to beat!!! and delivered, too fun!

tj cameron said...

that's the last time i go running with you before i have to shoot a wedding. my feet already hurt bad enough that i didn't need an extra 6 miles on them! thanks again for coming out!

Anonymous said...

Oh man I wish I could have gone to this. New York Baby!!!! Bet you had a blast.

jason groupp said...

...just seeing this now. It was great seeing you this weekend and last! Two trips to NYC in one month! Thanks for all your help yesterday!

See you in a few weeks!