A Week Full of Friends

September 01, 2015 by Brigham Barnes

This past week I had some opportunities to socialize, so do you know what I did? I socialized!

Tuesday night there was a farewell gathering in the park for Nicole. Of course I didn't get a picture of Nicole, but look! Here's a picture of me!

I can't exactly remember if Ned said he wanted this picture on the internet or not. He probably said he did.

Then the next night Tara organized a trip out to Fu Ran in Flushing for a friendly Chinese feast. I didn't take pictures of any of the food! I was too busy eating. We had amazing cumin lamb ribs and a whole fish in spicy bean sauce that had the flavoring of tacos al pastor...wonder what was going on there, scientifically...and a lot of other great stuff. We even got to eat in the party room.

Then Saturday night was Ty and Emily's 20's-themed engagement party. Like a genius I didn't get any pictures of the couple, but you can see what they look at a Chinese restaurant in the above photo. And here's Emily right here.

It was a great opportunity to see some friends I hadn't seen in a while, like Chris

And Joe and the Sowards

But Jeff was there, too. Looking just like James Joyce.

Oh here's Ty

and there's Brook

And here's Chris again

What was everyone doing over there at the table?

Just checking out all the Polaroids from the photo booth.

oh and here's my boss Kristin

On the way home, Marge behind bars on my block

And then, as if that wasn't enough, late Sunday night I met Bryndee and Helen (in from Salt Lake for the US Open) for bedtime tacos at the El Idolo truck.

Ok, well. there you have it. Let's hear it for friends!

Best Boat Break

August 23, 2015 by Brigham Barnes

Do you see what happened up there? A few months into this new-blog experiment and I slip into the naming routine from the old briggie.blogspot.com. Old habits, they're hard to break!

Anyway last weekend I was just arriving at work when I got a message from Jeff that he and Noelle were in town and they told me I should come ride the Staten Island Ferry with them. I thought about it a little and decided that meeting up with amigos would be the right thing to do. So I played hooky from work for a few hours. It was the right thing to do.

If you weren't feeling like seeing lots of pictures of Jeff this might not be the post for you.

Or if you didn't feel like seeing sneaky snaps of strangers, either.

When everyone looks like this it means the Statue of Liberty is coming into view.

Stealing yo selfie

I think the idea is you're not supposed to have to do that if you have the stick?

Arriving in Staten Island we weren't just going to jump on the next ferry. We stuck around to appreciate this mysterious burrough. We did so by eating at Dairy Queen.

Return trip...

C'est what?

Sneaking on stangers, continued

And trying to keep up with the crowd when I got back to Manhattan.

Best It Was Dark Up On That Roof

August 19, 2015 by Brigham Barnes

Thursday night was Melissa's birthday party, an annual late-summer affair. I was out of work early enough to go (I'm sorry that all posts for the time being will start with an explanation of what work did or didn't let me get to) and since I knew I'd be up on a dark roof, I brought my Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.1 lens with me. I got this lens nearly 4 years ago and it's fun but so hard to focus. As my new Leica has live view that makes negotiating it's super thin depth of field a little easier, but still hard. This post begins with varied photos taken in low low light.

I bumped into Tamara on my way to Melissa's. Here she is being patient with me as we wait for the elevator to Melissa's roof. Oh wait, there wasn't an elevator to the roof? No biggie. Not afraid of a few stairs.