Saturday, August 21, 2010

Fisherman

Fisherman
Catch

Bait

Bumblebee

I have never seen this before, but this tree was swarming with bumblebees.
Every flower had been occupied by a busy bumblebee.


Fun fact - It is believed that: "In terms of aerodynamics a bumblebee can not fly. But the bumblebee does not know about it and therefore flies.

Jumping into water...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8vBQfaETko

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Photographers

Wall Street

Today, in a Wall Street news:

LaRouche activists are proposing to impeach Barack Obama and portray him with a Hitler like mustache.


Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Coney Island

It was early in the morning, and the sun wasn't that hot yet.
Me and my wife walked on to Coney Island boardwalk.

All the stores were still closed and we could see beautiful painting on the storefront.

Wonder wheel and the Cyclone

Luna Park & The Elephant Hotel


A pigeon was checking the water - still too wet

Other pigeons taking a bath in a nearby puddle


A guy was warming up to play his trumpet

As we were leaving the boardwalk, people just started to arrive to the beach, already dressed in bathing suits and carrying towels and umbrellas. It was nice sunny day.


Love the summer.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Lightning

Last night's lighting over Brooklyn.
ISO200 f4 15sec

Sunday, August 15, 2010

New Yrok Aquarium

On my son's 6th birthday, we went to New York Aquarium, in Brooklyn NY.

We saw a lot of fish, corals and their inhabitants at Glover's reef.
An alien stingers featured a variety of jellyfish, that looked like not from this world.
Sea Cliff had walruses, otters, penguins, whom you can watch from above and then go downstairs to get an underwater perspective.
Sharks exhibitions had sharks, stingrays and giant sea turtles.
There was also a place where you could pet a horseshoe crab or a starfish.

Seahorse
It started as a very hot day, that changed to a rainy one.
Due to the rain and mostly thunders, sea lion show/feeding was canceled.
Their Planet Earth: Shallow Seas 4-D Experience - had experienced air conditioner malfunction, so we got an open tickets till the end of this year to come back.


And some pictures...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Wall Street cats and dogs


Wall Street presents two dogs, two cats and what looks like guinea pig.
Dogs are on a guard, letting know every passing dog not to disturb the sleep their furry friends. Cats, ignorant to everything and to everybody, enjoy their nap.


Thursday, August 5, 2010

Someone's Junk Is Someone Else's Treasure

Found this in my junk folder, send by Pinnacle Africa - such a treasure. Very creative!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Trust, but verify

Recently, I had to get to Bloomingdale's in SoHo area in Manhattan.
I got my iPhone, started Google Maps, and typed "Bloomingdales".
So far, so good. It found couple locations in the vicinity and one of them is correctly listed as 504 Broadway, New York.
However, when zooming in to get street intersection, I found that something was wrong:
It's pointed to NoHo area, and not even Broadway.
Luckily I knew that it was a wrong location, and did not walk there (it would have taken me 1/2 mile off course).

Bing.com was more accurate in displaying the same address.
Typing the exact address to Google maps, finally gave me the correct location.
All well, that ends well - I got to my destination.


It shows once again, that one must not blindly trust the technology, because somewhere, someone might have made a mistake, and that mistake would translate into lost time or some unpleasant situation.
As Ronald Reagan used to say: Trust, but verify.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010