Jon Whitney :: photo blog

Memorial Day 2010

2010-06-03T09:34:00.007-04:00

I didn't break out the camera until after nightfall when my niece and nephew decided it was time to put on the glow sticks and jump on the trampoline under the choreographic direction of Keith, their Grandfather.

Looking up trees

2010-05-11T17:45:00.003-04:00

Trees. We drive by them, walk around them, sit under them, climb up them and birds crap from them. Generally we ignore them except for those moments during the Spring or Fall when they sprout vivid new life or wow us with their pyrotechnic displays as they prepare for hibernation.

The other week Doreen and I took some time to walk amongst the trees of Five Rivers, camera in hand. I wasn't planning these photographs, in fact I wasn't planning on shooting anything in particular, this just came together after my first chance encounter. The path was muddy and I had to inch around a difficult puddle which brought me into close contact with the first tree (below). It was a blustery day and at the precise moment I inched past the puddle, stomach to tree, the wind blew, the tree swayed and an incredible creaking sound vibrated down the tree. I paused and looked up to see the branches swaying in the sky and to hear the beautiful groaning as the bare tree swung to and fro in the blustery spring air.

See more of the Looking Up Trees photos on my Flickr stream.

Of Passing Interest

2010-05-08T07:22:00.002-04:00

Rainy days, snowy days, I'm drawn to the sight of the boots and sneakers splashing through the slush, soaking up the mess and trying to get along.

The Brooklyn Hot Rods

2010-05-06T20:16:00.012-04:00

A couple of friends were in from Texas last summer...

Here's Will...

...and John...

Will, John and Christina. This was before we tried the Watermelon Flavored Beer (seriously terrible)...

Will again...

This was all shot on my Canon 5D in available light, ISO varied between 1600 and 3200.

If you'd like to see more, then follow the jump.

Texas comes to New York City

Central Park and the Manhattan skyline

2010-02-13T09:42:00.003-05:00

This is the view from a photo shoot I had yesterday looking south from the top of Central Park. Though difficult to see here, the skyline in the back is Manhattan with the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building and all the rest. Not too shabby.

My DMV wedding

2010-02-11T08:30:00.012-05:00

On January 15, 2010, Doreen Walsh and I got hitched at the Manhattan City Hall. What a great Day!

We first met in 1987(?) when my best friend started dating her best friend. She and I were the baggage sitting back watching our friends make out, fall in love and eventually marry one another. Being baggage we naturally got lost. I left town in 1991, moved to San Francisco and married the wrong girl. Fast forward a couple of decades, the wrong girl leaves and marries the softball coach, and fortuitously, Doreen and I meet once again.

It happened at a dump of a bar in Delmar, NY, we were both home to visit our families for Christmas, and we are meeting the same two friends who originally introduced us all those years ago. Sparks flew. Long story short, the sparks flew; we nearly broke up, we dumped kerosene on the sparks, we got married. It all worked out better than I could have hoped.