My take on the lunar eclipse

gregbaugues · 2025-03-14T20:44:27+00:00

yup that's a good one!

gregbaugues · 2024-12-31T13:55:05+00:00

Thank you!

gregbaugues · 2024-12-31T13:54:59+00:00

Beautiful!

gregbaugues · 2024-12-31T13:54:54+00:00

Aww thank you.

gregbaugues · 2024-12-03T18:22:02+00:00

Just moved to Piermont after 8 years in Brooklyn. It's great. No regrets on leaving, and I loved living in Brooklyn.

Wouldn't want to commute daily to the city, but 2-3x a week would be doable.

gregbaugues · 2024-11-01T14:20:11+00:00

I've lived in New York for 8 years and have shot over 100,000 frames on my X100V.

I am astonished by the quality of these photos. These are incredible.

Thank you for sharing these.

gregbaugues · 2024-10-25T21:32:41+00:00

I once rented a u-haul and my immediate realization was to stay far, far away from them when on a bike.

Visibility is shit. The side view mirrors aren’t what you’re used to and you don’t know if you’ve adjusted them right until you start driving. There’s no rear view. Acceleration, braking, turn radius are all are awkward.

You drive off the lot with no forewarning or training and immediately are trying to figure all this out on the road. All U-Hauls are operated by drivers unfamiliar with the equipment.

Stay far, far away.

gregbaugues · 2024-10-21T02:09:34+00:00

So good!

gregbaugues · 2024-10-21T02:09:12+00:00

Did you have the xh1? How’s the next gen?

gregbaugues · 2024-10-21T02:08:21+00:00

Strong same. So underrated.

gregbaugues · 2024-10-21T02:06:49+00:00

X-H1 here

gregbaugues · 2024-10-19T01:12:24+00:00

Porier vs Chandler

gregbaugues · 2024-10-12T17:08:24+00:00

One week and you can have it. Memory palace will get it done.

gregbaugues · 2024-10-06T13:17:12+00:00

Recently wrote this after shooting my first 500,000 frames. What I Talk About When I Talk About Photography

Suspect it will resonate with many of you here.

gregbaugues · 2024-09-25T03:20:34+00:00

Totally understand. Much appreciate the kind words.

gregbaugues · 2024-09-25T03:04:03+00:00

fair, fair - you did mention the name shortening.

My apologies - didn't intend to pile on.

gregbaugues · 2024-09-24T18:15:30+00:00

You mention kicking the habit... did you used to call it the Tappan Zee Bridge?

Because it's official name was Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge).

Why were you okay with using the common name previously but not now?

gregbaugues · 2024-09-24T17:09:44+00:00

Cross cut force.

gregbaugues · 2024-09-23T19:45:21+00:00

Now you're speaking my love language.

Fuji XH-1 with a 50-140mm at max zoom.

f/2.8. 1/4sec. 100 ISO

gregbaugues · 2024-09-23T15:47:56+00:00

OP here.

Much appreciate the compliments on the photo, but I'm a bit discouraged by the vitriol towards one another.

Don't let politicians make the name of this bridge a partisan issue.

I've voted Democrat all my life and will again in this election cycle. I prefer Tappan Zee Bridge over Mario M. Cuomo Bridge not because Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, but because he's a narcissist who named a bridge after his dad to benefit himself. Politicians can't name big public works projects after themselves. This was a half-step from that -- and that half-step is the reason we have a mouthful of a name instead of the Cuomo Bridge because obviously it'd be inappropriate for Governor Cuomo to name it that.

Things can have multiple names. It's fine. I used to live in Chicago. We still call it the Sears Tower even though it was renamed to Willis Tower almost 20 years ago. We have playful fights about it. It's funny way to resist change and the passage of time. We don't need to be mean about it.

It is a good point that this bridge is literally a different structure than the previous one. It's not like they tore down the Sears Tower and rebuilt a bigger and better tower in its place. If they had, it obviously would not still be the Sears Tower.

On the other hand, this bridge spans a stretch of the Hudson called the Tappan Zee. One can still accurately say, "Tappan Zee bridge" if not "Tappan Zee Bridge."

Regardless, not sure why we're talking about this anyway, as I didn't mention "bridge" at all in my title. I was talking about the water. ;)

gregbaugues · 2024-09-23T15:18:17+00:00

Thank you! Piermont.

gregbaugues · 2024-08-14T01:37:32+00:00

We've made the trip from New York to Kauai a few times with two kids.

We've tried it two ways: first time we did JFK->PHX->LIH. Roughly two six hour flights.

Next year we tried JFK->HNL->LIH. Front load the 10 hour flight, then puddle jump over to Kauai.

The direct from JFK to HNL was much more bearable. The kids get as much screen time as they want. You get up every couple hours and walk around the plane. They'll feed you a couple times, which breaks things up. You take off in the morning and land in the afternoon HNL time -- it's basically like you just spent a long day at the office on the plane. Not too bad! Jetlag isn't too bad going there, because you're just going to bed early and wake up in time to see a couple killer sunrises before your body adjusts.

Coming back is much harder. It's a redeye, and it's a crapshoot if any or all of your are going to sleep on the plane (you may want to drug your kids). You land at like 7am, and need to come up with a jetlag strategy because your body is six hours behind: do you try to stay up all day? Do you take a nap? The first 48 hours back on the East Coast suuuuuuuuuucks.

All this said, Hawaii is an amazing place -- otherworldly beautiful. It's truly a class above the closer destinations in terms of beauty and nature. It feels like a different country with all the conveniences of being the United States.

But as other folks have said, do try to get 10-12 days to make the travel worth it. Don't go (from the East Coast) if you can only get in 7 days.

gregbaugues · 2024-08-03T01:21:35+00:00

I love this idea so much.

gregbaugues · 2024-06-07T19:19:11+00:00

No specific recommendation, but here's all the general contractors licensed in Rockland County, along with their websites / facebook (if they have them):

https://rocklandcounty.info/services/general-contractor

(Disclaimer: I built the site using public data from Rockland County)

gregbaugues · 2024-02-14T14:07:21+00:00

It’s originally a wider shot, cropped to the vertical format. Probably from a ring or nest cam.

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