2013 Project 51, Week 52: Christmas at Lincoln Center

Week 51: December 17-23

"Christmas in New York" holds a kind of mystical place in culture, I think; but for us, Christmases in New York have largely been spent with me at home and Sharon at the hospital.  This year, as with Thanksgiving, Sharon actually managed to have the day off, which was nice.

We had a pancake dinner for Christmas Eve, a tradition cribbed from the Pierce family, and we exchanged presents with each other sometime before Christmas and Christmas Eve since we are basically twelve years old and cannot wait until Christmas Day, a tradition started by the New York Tsay family. We really need to get better at that before we ever have kids. Or not.

With Sharon on a rotation that more or less allowed for free evenings, we had taken a few of the nights this particular week and weekend to get out of the house. This week's entry is of the plaza at Lincoln Center: I can hardly pass up a chance to shoot silhouettes. I played around with the cropped composition in post; the original showed the entire front of the Met Opera building, but I'm trying to teach myself to compose creatively. It's all so stiff to me, for now.

20mm (DX) : ISO 1600 : f/5.6 : 1/30s
Lincoln Center Christmas Tree!

Other excursions this week: we visited the Brooklyn Bazaar. This year's Bazaar seemed to be a bit smaller and more compact than last year's sprawling affair.

So Bazaar

 We also took advantage of the free admission at MoMA on Fridays to visit the famous museum. Sharon has a killer photo from this staircase that I will badger her for until she posts somewhere; until then, this is my contribution. These two sentences contribute nothing to the incredible experience that is the MoMA. If you're in town on a Friday night and like art, you should consider visiting between 4-8pm.

MoMA

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