Photography

54 posts

Tue 18 Dec
2012

Flickr for iPhone and the Long Road Back

6:11 PM
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Yahoo finally sees fit to pull the photo sharing service out of its rut, but it’s just the first step.

Sun 02 Dec
2012

Cancer

11:08 PM
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For the past several years, our good friend Erin has been taking photos of our young family for the holidays. Here is an outtake from this year’s session, taken earlier this evening; a shot of my dear ol’ mutt, Mister President, resting in my lap.

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Mon 22 Oct
2012

Arrow in the Face

9:49 AM
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Careless placement of play arrows in news multimedia.

Tue 01 Nov
2011

Batgirl

5:18 PM
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Sun 21 Aug
2011

Birthday No. 2

8:44 AM
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My daughter Thuy is two years old today. This is a picture of her from last weekend.

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Mon 06 Jun
2011

Vacation Over

4:52 PM

My daughter Thuy, now 21-months old if you can believe it, riding on my father’s shoulders in Paris last month.

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Fri 06 May
2011

Wallflower

3:15 PM
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Mon 07 Feb
2011

Morning in the O.C.

11:40 PM
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Wed 02 Feb
2011

And Now, Freezing Rain

9:04 AM

What a winter. New York woke up to freezing rain and a sheet of ice over everything this morning.

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Sun 30 Jan
2011

The Argument for Florida

9:05 PM
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Pictures from last Thursday morning, when an overnight snowstorm left a foot and a half of snow all over the city.

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Fri 07 Jan
2011

Local Tundra

1:50 PM
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Old and polluted snow from Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn.

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Fri 03 Dec
2010

Today Is My Birthday

11:24 AM
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My mom sent me this picture of me on my eleventh birthday.

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Sun 31 Oct
2010

Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi

8:04 PM
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For her first Halloween, Laura made an amazing costume for our daughter Thuy.

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Mon 11 Oct
2010

All Business

9:46 PM
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Thu 23 Sep
2010

Canyon of Zeroes

9:40 PM
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Battery Park City, lower Manhattan.

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Thu 09 Sep
2010

Zürich

4:57 PM
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Laura and Thuy on the water in Zurich, Switzerland earlier today.

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Mon 23 Aug
2010

Parts

11:51 AM
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Fri 21 May
2010

Li’l Cowboy, Li’l River

5:25 AM
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Thuy’s cousin Jasper, in full cowboy regalia, taken near his home in Lyon, France.

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Sun 14 Feb
2010

Antigua

12:32 AM
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Fri 27 Nov
2009

Reasons to Be Thankful

12:59 AM
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Two among many. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

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Tue 25 Aug
2009

Brand New Baby

11:28 PM
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About a week ago, Laura and I packed some bags and took a taxi to St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The baby’s original due date had been 4 August, so when we checked into the hospital, we were already fifteen days late and Laura had agreed with her midwifery practice that it was time to induce labor. Roughly thirty hours later, Laura gave birth to our beautiful, gorgeous baby girl: Thuy Esme Holder-Vinh at 4:21a on Friday, 21 August. Find out more about her, and see more pictures, at www.thuy.me.

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Tue 04 Aug
2009

The Situation

11:38 AM
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This picture was taken on Sunday. Compare it to this picture from January. According to conventional pregnancy calculations, our first baby’s due date is today, 4 August 2009.

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Sun 19 Apr
2009

Merce at 90

6:38 PM

Audience members exiting the Howard Gilman Opera House at Brooklyn Academy of Music following today’s world premiere performance of “Nearly Ninety,” choreographed by Merce Cunningham on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.

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Tue 03 Mar
2009

People Want Coffee Even in a Snowstorm

2:32 PM
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I was really feeling sorry for myself for having to put on my winter boots in order to make it through the snowstorm and cold weather to get to work yesterday. And then, right there in front of The New York Times building, was a reminder of how thoroughly pampered and just plain soft I am: at least I got to wake up hours later than the woman running this coffee and pastry cart, and at least I don’t have to spend my workday beneath the flimsy protection from the elements that her cart provides, and at least it’s warm enough inside my office for me to take off my coat. In retrospect, I really should have bought a cup of coffee from her that morning.

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Sun 08 Feb
2009

Fail

7:14 PM
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Sat 24 Jan
2009

Baby on Board

12:29 PM
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Folks, in about twenty-eight weeks Laura and I are going to be parents.

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Mon 19 Jan
2009

Bicycling Uphill Along the Rhône

6:59 PM
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It took me a while to figure out what my photographic ‘style’ is, but in the past six months or so I think I’ve settled on a particular visual language that makes sense for me. In contrast to the wide-ranging and rather aimless fiddling that I did with my camera the first few years I had it, these days I find myself looking for some very specific qualities: elevation views, people in profile, perpendicular geometry, and flattened space.

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Sat 03 Jan
2009

Make the Numbers Bigger

4:44 PM
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Sat 27 Dec
2008

Inside a Boutique in Le Marais

2:36 PM

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Diana

1:28 PM

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Fri 05 Dec
2008

Window Stars

1:29 PM
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Sat 22 Nov
2008

The Right Spot

11:47 AM
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Wed 12 Nov
2008

Stripes

10:35 PM
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Graphics occurring in nature. Shot in San Francisco last Friday.

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Wed 05 Nov
2008

Print’s Not Dead

12:48 PM
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Just a few minutes ago, some of my colleagues noticed a line forming out in front of the Times Building. People are queuing up to buy already scarce copies of today’s newspaper, presumably as mementos of the historic election of Barack Obama to the office of President of the United States.

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Tue 04 Nov
2008

Standing in Line to Vote

6:05 PM
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Mon 03 Nov
2008

Stairway at Horsemen Antiques

11:11 PM
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Sun 02 Nov
2008

Horsemen Antiques

11:51 PM
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Fri 31 Oct
2008

40th Street

11:56 AM
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Pedestrian traffic in front of the Times building.

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Fri 17 Oct
2008

Minor League Ball

4:04 PM

Watching the Falmouth Commodores during the summer.

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Fri 10 Oct
2008

Craigslist 1.0

12:51 PM
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Taken over the summer in West Falmouth, MA.

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Thu 02 Oct
2008

Documentation

9:05 AM
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Mr. Lightning Field and bride, Wilmington, NC.

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Tue 30 Sep
2008

Now Boarding

7:56 AM
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Here is one of the main reasons I decided to rebuild my site with ExpressionEngine: this new framework now allows me to publish entries that are primarily pictorial.

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Thu 11 Oct
2007

Crumpled Up

10:26 PM
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Extra-curricular work for Blue Eyes Magazine.

Fri 24 Aug
2007

Four Pictures

12:10 AM
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Presentable pics from a week with visiting family.

Sat 28 Jul
2007

Way Out West

12:09 AM
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On holiday in the West.

Wed 16 May
2007

Helvetica Hero Shot

11:15 PM
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The author as a typographic super-hero.

Tue 17 Apr
2007

Through a Lens Expensively

12:11 AM
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What I’m attaching to my digital SLR camera.

Thu 29 Jun
2006

Last Class

12:54 AM
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All good things must come to an end, even if they’re continuing education classes for photography.

Sat 24 Jun
2006

Shooting Spree

10:24 AM
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Thousands of photographs to go until I’m a good photographer.

Wed 14 Jun
2006

Pictures of People

12:29 AM
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Results from week two of my digital photography class.

Thu 08 Jun
2006

How to Shoot People (and Places and Things)

12:35 AM
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Initial results from the photography class I just enrolled in.

Wed 07 Dec
2005

Post-Trip Wrap-Up

11:47 AM
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Back from Viet Nam, jet lagged, but all squared away on Flickr.

Tue 08 Nov
2005

Photography 101

11:41 PM
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What I want to learn about taking pictures.

Sun 06 Nov
2005

Unaware Over There

8:38 AM
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Back from an oblivious tour of the City of Lights.