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carnies
Almost as badly as I wanted to pillage and plunder some vareniki on my birthday, I wanted to return and take more pictures of Coney Island, this time at twilight. I obsessed over carnival lights and colored filaments, but came home with dozens of mostly blurry pictures because I am too lazy to pull out the tripod when using the telephoto lens. (This is probably why the Hasidic man groaned at me yesterday at B&H when I tried out a macro lens, only to take three of the worst pictures ever and convince myself maybe I'm not ready for one.)
The absolute brightest story from the day, however, is within the last picture. Midway between the Spanish-speaking voices on the Coney end of the boardwalk and Russian-tongued Brighton, Alex spied a ketchup-colored, well-lit dome over Far Rockaway.
"What do you think that is?" my bookworm, smarty-pants husband asked me.
"I dunno! Maybe if you look through the telephoto lens you can see more?" his well-at-least-she's-pretty wife responded.
By the time he had it out, though, the dome had become more of a slice, and less red. The slice became a half-circle, the half-circle a full round, and within minutes it had departed Queens and headed for the stars, casting its linear glow across the ocean and illuminating our stroll to the carb-carnival.
"You have such a head for knowing!" [Moonstruck]
comments (7)
Yay, for some reason my work firewall is permitting Flickr today and I can see Deb's pictures. Joy! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing :)
1 | e. | June 13, 2006 09:45 AM
yes, i almost forgot... Coney Island is back for the summer...!
2 | michael | June 13, 2006 04:55 PM
Hey, were you at Target in Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon? Though I saw you but wasn't sure.
3 | Ari | June 14, 2006 12:08 AM
No, not at all. But! I just now remembered that I forgot to tell you that I was in the UES by the river a couple months ago and Alex and I were so certain this girl was you, I went up to her and said hi. Uh, she was not. A little awkward, indeed, but clear how much we miss ya.
4 | deb | June 14, 2006 08:10 AM
Ha! Too funny - yes, I certainly almost recreated that moment yesterday. So we have dopplegangers running around, huh? You think they're friendly? :) Miss you too stranger!!!
5 | Ari | June 14, 2006 01:16 PM
deb,
what kind of camera do you use?
6 | ash | June 15, 2006 03:35 PM
boy, you two enter coney island and you both become carnies. yikes. great pics.
7 | hubs | June 20, 2006 01:35 PM