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the high line

The High Line.
One of the prettiest parks in the city, if you ask me.
Made on the railroad line that's been out of use for years.

more pics here.

settling in

Got here yesterday...
settled in and spent today exploring Greenwich Village.
Crumbs Bake Shop was delicious and has well designed packaging. Love that.

Notice the Moleskine notebook—it's the NYC Moleskine city notebook and it's amazing. Full of detailed maps and notes to write down your favorite finds/daily plans. Get one for whatever city you're visiting. Much less conspicuous than those oversized city metro maps.

It's been very rainy lately.

Yellowstone

If you haven't been—go.
Yellowstone is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
And the "grizzly berry" ice cream at Mammoth hot springs grill is delicious.

heart NYC

Look at what Katie did!

Put a little paper-heart-cutout on her camera lens,


and turned the lights of NYC into hearts! So cute. I have a feeling that if I did that, it wouldn't turn out quite as amazing, but I want to try it anyway...and maybe I will...because guess what??? I'm heading to NYC in the morning! yay hooray! I'm so excited. I'll be there for one week, I've never been and I just love new adventures. :)

she hit pause. studios

I'm adoring the dreamy work of Brooklyn based photographer Matt Schwartz from she hit pause studios.

Many thanks to Rose for sending the link!

Grant Hamilton

I am absolutely adoring Grant Hamilton's polaroids. Gorgeous! Fabulous! Excellent! I need to get out and get me my own Polaroid camera so I can stop making silly fake ones. (Although that's fun too, for now.)

skate skiing

Last weekend was my first attempt at cross country skiing....skate style. And it was amazing! I've cross country skied for years but have never gotten around to trying skate skiing, so I figured it was high time to do so. I'm hooked. It's a rigorous workout, (I was sore for days) and it was great to get out into the fresh air. I have no pics to share of me actually skiing, but a few of the beautiful surroundings. If you haven't tried skiing in your life yet, then do it. Any way you can—downhill, cross country, skate skiing—heck, even snowboarding. It will cure you of any ill will toward winter storms.

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an afternoon at the lake

Last Sunday at Utah lake was beautiful.

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Stephen Tamiesie

Lately I'm in love with images with lots of sky and soft colors. So when I came across the work of Stephen Tamiesie, I immediately adored it. Especially in his series of 'Signs of American Life'—which has lots of images from my homestate of Utah. The salt flats can make for some pretty incredible pictures.

all images from stephen tamiesie
via behance

think sunshine

Clicking through yosigo!!!'s beautiful photostream is making me want summer and a nice trip to the beach.





images from yosigo!!!'s flickr
via ffffound

sweet photos

I wanted to share my favorite photo manipulating sites. I think this is almost too much goodness for one post, but I figure everyone could use a great post on a Monday, right? So, here we go. (I'll warn you now—these things might keep you busy for much too long.)



First off is Poladroid, which lets you download a program that is super easy to use and turns your pictures into polaroids. So fantastic! (found via one of my new favorite blogs—what's mine is yours)



Second up is BeFunky. Their options are pretty similar to photobooth, but I think that their "Warholizer" is much better than the photobooth popart option. (found via ShopGirl*)




Next is TiltShiftMaker—the nifty site that manipulates photos to make objects look miniature. This one can be tricky to get a good image with, but is very fun to try.


And finally, I figure that I should throw in the "Obamifier", although you've probably seen it already. The only downside to this site is that you have to register for it.

Fun! I love them all, but think that I'll be getting most use out of Poladroid in the future.

images taken by myself

Balakov's legos

I had so much fun browsing this photostream of iconic images recreated with legos from Balakov's flickr. How fun and creative! Do you recognize them? I put links to the originals in case you're stumped!

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Brilliant! I love them.

images from Balakov's flickr