Author: Bryan Elkus

Today we headed back out into the cold and snow. We decided to go snowshoeing in a park near by. It was a blast to go out and explore a hill with long paths through the woods. I stopped a couple times to take a couple photos. I think im going to head back there at night to r shoot some of the shots with some other gear.

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Today, we headed out on another adventure. This time it was to Old Mission Peninsula. There was a nice little lighthouse on East Bay, so we took a look around, and had a great burger at Bubba’s.

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Melissa and I headed out on a little road trip today. We headed to the coast to check out Lake Michigan and the towns along the way. We stopped at a couple places to take pictures. Once we made it to lake MI it was cranking. It was probably blowing 30+ knots. Needless to say it was a bit chilly so we ran around trying to get a couple shots before running back to the warm car. We headed back in time for dinner and a movie and called it a night.

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Today was a travel day. NYC to TVC. Though, I spent nearly the entire day in the Chicago airport, I did run into Mark Brown and a packaging school friend Blair.

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I headed out in the morning to meet up with my parents at a nice little restaurant a few blocks away from my sister’s place. It was a nice change from yesterday’s Starbucks. From there we headed to the Whitney Museum to check out a couple exhibits.

We then headed to the plaza to wait for Jamie to meet up with us. I stumbled across a very cool gallery. Peter Lik photographs were amazing. The shots were great but what made the gallery was how the images were presented. They were printed up on a special photo paper, which increased the vibrancy of the colors like a movie screen will.

Jamie met up with us to give a little tour of central park. I think this was my favorite thing about NYC. We had a great time wandering around the park hearing all of Jamie’s stories. Then we all headed to the Palm for the best meal I’ve had in the last 2 years or probably the next two years to come. Jamie headed home after dinner and then family headed to Wicked for the evening activity. It was a great, but cloudy day in the city.

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We ran the streets again today. Hit up a couple stores and a photography exhibit.  We did a lot of walking and exploring through the city.  I also got to have lunch at a great sushi restaurant with a very good old friend Jamie and her dad.

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I get to the airport in the morning, 6:30 in the morning, extremely excited for my 3 flights just to get to New York. I make it through security and wait for my flight. I wind up talking to a flight agent about video and photography as he saw my tripod. Then we got talking surfing and surfing trips, as his son was a ranked surfer on the east coast. He was a really nice guy.

Later they get to call my flight to Philly. I go up to the kiosk and talk to another agent, to see if there was room on the direct flight that took off a little later. He hooked it up and I scored my self a nonstop to NYC. Whether it was because of Christmas or talking surfing with his buddy, I got lucky. I got to talking with the two of them after the other flight had left and they asked to check out my Cape Hatteras Photo book. 15 minutes later there were 4 agents checking it out, and they seemed stoked on the book. It was really cool to see them excited about the photos.

I made it into NYC 4 hours a head of time… go figure that would have happened traveling on Christmas. I cabbed it to my sister’s place where I meet up with the family. We spent the rest of the day wondering the streets. I must say it’s a bit of a culture shock going from Hatteras to NYC.

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