I just returned from another Amateur Radio convention, this time in Orlando. The Florida "Hamacation" draws thousands of radio operators, manufacturers, flea marketers and curious each year. This time I brought a field recorder for interviews. Hope to share the results soon
King's County ARES, deployed at the annual Prospect Park Turkey Trot road race, November 2012.
The 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall at New York's Park Avenue Armory is the setting for artist Ann Hamilton's installation "the event of a thread," a large scale work that enjoins all the viewer's senses through motion, soound, spoken word, live animals, and of course, acting like a 7-year-old kid in a schoolyard. Now through January 06, 2013.
Sneaking a late-season sail aboard Grace near Jessup Neck, Peconic Bay, Southold, NY.
Outside VFW Post 5195, Redhook Brooklyn, NY. The building, along with much of the waterfront community, suffered much flood damage during superstorm Sandy. Veterans and members are rebuilding.
View from the Blue Canoe, Greenport, NY.
Greenport Yard, Greenport NY—the active railway link between The 'Fork and Brooklyn, and all point between. I often think the influx of tourists here is recent, due to the delectable bay-and-farm-to-table offerings, and curated publications like Edible East End and www.northfrkd.com (full disclosure, I photograph for the latter...) But Weekending has been a tradition in this neck of the woods for hundreds of years.
The ninety-four miles of railway track that links Brooklyn to Greenport was put into service in July, 1844. It was intended to be part of a system that would take passengers to the east end of Long Island by train, then by ferry to Stonington, CT, then again by train to Boston, MA—but the scheme never came to fruition. Instead, it allowed local industry in fishing and farming to flourish, and brought a steady flow of weekenders from the City to the North Fork.