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The Best of 2017

    The following is a smattering of images taken while I'm doing stuff on the weekends in the year 2017 (in chronological order). They are representative of the best events, not the best photography.

1/1 - Testing out my new turn signal bicycle gloves on new year's day.
1/6 - The 3D scanner built into the Wacom MobileStudio Pro is interesting.
1/7 - Herb's birthday before drinks.
1/7 - Herb's birthday after drinks.
1/7 - Shuffleboard in Brooklyn
1/7 - Actually, just waiting for shuffleboard in Brooklyn.
1/9 - No heat in the office today I guess.
1/14 - Hanging at Serfresa's place for some indoor winter games.
1/14 - Recreating old photos.
1/14 - The winter trains exhibit at the NYBG
1/14 - Let's get some food at the diner aftering going to the NYBG.
1/21 - Eat the soup and read the Facebook
1/22 - These fenders are working great for the wet rides!
1/29 - That was an excellent brunch
1/31 - Sambal kept making the chili curry I ordered everytime a little spicier. They finally gave me an extra spice pouch!
1/31 - Using the Wacom MobileStudio Pro plugged into a desktop workstation is pretty awesome.
2/5 - A little bowling to start the day.
2/5 - We randomly ran into Monica at a nature preserve we didn't know existed.
2/5 - Turns out she volunteers there, so we gave one of the snakes a bath.
2/11 - It's a nice day to go to the beach.
2/11 - Val & Liga chilling on the beach.
2/13 - Photographing the BIO CEO & Investor conference was a lot of work.
2/18 - Yay, lunch with Cousin Amy.
2/18 - Minecraft much, Mason?
2/23 - Playing at Grammy's with the fam.
2/23 - What's my name, Dira?
2/23 - Winter Film Awards party time
2/23 - Maritess is in town
2/23 - OMG, the French Onion Soup burger!
2/23 - Look who we ran into on the streets of NYC.
2/25 - Going out to eat at Bao
2/25 - For some reason, a bunch of our other friends sat at a different table in the corner.
2/25 - On to Barcade for some old video games!
2/26 - Let's all go out to eat at Saigonese for some awesome Pho!
3/2 - Out for a little font management conference.
3/2 - The Nintendo Switch launches tonight.
3/5 - Pretending to buy the new Nintendo Switch
3/9 - Time for some awesome Indian food.
3/15 - Look at that, we got snow.
3/18 - Shopping for computers with the tax return money.
3/18 - Another trip to Saigonese for some more pho.
3/19 - Snowy bicycle ride.
3/21 - This movie was great.
3/23 - That's John Oliver here at the Luxary Tech Show.
3/30 - Samsung did a huge ceiling screen for the Galaxy S8 launch.
3/29 - We're all here at a big Samsung launch event!
4/2 - Trying the 360 camera at the Pepsi headquarters
4/2 - The sculptures at Pepsi's headquarters are really awesome.
4/3 - Oh yeah, mounted the 360 VR camera on the bicycle!
4/6 - I don't think I can handle this.
4/6 - Jaime needs more smart watches at the Pepcom show.
4/11 - More bicycling
4/15 - Taking Mason to the Circus
4/15 - It was the last show before shutting down (in MA).
4/15 - We should play some mini-golf too.
4/16 - All these Easter eggs have dollars inside!
4/16 - Practicing a little baseball in the park
4/16 - Hanging at the lake with the family.
4/22 - While the Chihuly glass sculptures were amazing at this show's grand opening. I was also impressed with the location-aware interactive web-guide!
4/30 - Bicycled up the dam with Harry
5/1 - Working on a nice donor board
5/5 - Microsoft party at the pinball arcade!
5/5 - Hey, I ran into Manan at the Microsoft Reconnect party!
5/6 - Holi Hai at Governor's Island was fun
5/7 - Backstage, getting ready for the Untermyer fashion show.
5/7 - The Untermyer Gardens fashion show was pretty cool.
5/9 - testing some signage we designed
5/14 - Off to see the Black Heart Burlesque Suicide Girls show with the guys, plus 1 stranger.
5/14 - This guy's studying for a quiz.
5/20 - Visiting Leif in Maine.
5/20 - Hi, we're in a radio station.
5/20 - Time for Little A's dance recital.
5/20 - Little A is teaching me some dance moves.
5/20 - Chillin in the parking lot.
5/25 - How's this sign going to look?
5/27 - Taking the nephew to the Sterling Ice Cream Bar.
5/27 - Worcester's home movie night was pretty fun.
5/28 - Mason's picking up a big rock!
5/28 - Playing on construction equipment is so much fun.
5/28 - Where to next?
5/28 - Bouncing time!
5/28 - And now for a little Sonic the Hedgehog.
5/31 - Time to install the signs I designed.
6/3 - One of my portraits is in an art show.
6/4 - Yeah, BBQ Lunch time!
6/7 - Grand opening of the new JCC building that I did a lot of design work for.
6/8 - Grand opening launch party for the new community center we worked on.
6/13 - Do I need more computers?
6/16 - We took pictures with the snake at Abby's dinner party.
6/16 - Not sure what's going on here.
6/16 - Me and the host of this amazing dinner party.
6/16 - So soft!
6/16 - Val knew he could handle the bed of nails, no problem.
6/16 - After dinner, there was entertainment.
6/17 - The Mermaid Parade is always weird, but fun.
6/20 - Out to see the REAL Transformers Movie.
6/22 - We've started the June birthdays parties!
6/22 - Liga's party is great.
6/22 - Those guys in the back are not part of our party.
6/25 - Harry always has to get air during a bicycle ride.
6/25 - Kevin O called while I was bicycling and said Hey you just passed me.
6/28 - Time for another June Birthday party!
6/28 - Brana had lots of fun.
6/30 - We're going to try to fix the shower first.
6/30 - Gotta get all the chores done.
6/30 - A little piano concert is always awesome.
6/30 - Yay, going out to dinner!
6/30 - Gotta help Malcolm clean up the kitchen at his restaurant.
7/1 - M. Jolene makes the best apple pie ever!
7/1 - Lets go for some mountain biking!
7/1 - A bit exhausted after that ride.
7/1 - Time for some more food.
7/1 - Beautiful day on the beach.
7/2 - A little more mountain biking.
7/7 - Ready for cousin Steven's wedding!
7/7 - It was a great outdoor venue after the rain stopped.
7/8 - Taking a break from playing at the Macaroni & Cheese festival.
7/8 - Rock climbing, yay!
7/8 - Reunited with some friends from 30 years ago.
7/8 - Trying to fit some marbles in Emily's ears.
7/8 - And now for some saxaphone music.
7/9 - I'm bored with Minecraft, Mason. Let's go outside.
7/9 - Yeah, 360 camera at the playground!
7/13 - Out to see War for the Planet of the Apes
7/15 - Dasha needs some phone shots for social media of course.
7/15 - Beautiful day on the motorcycle.
7/20 - Little A found a super charged creeper!
7/24 - Time to try the new South Korean restaurant with Soung, Monica, and Harry.
7/25 - Motorola's environment design for the press event is pretty cool.
7/25 - Photo op at the Motorola Press event.
7/25 - We're all here to make videos.
7/29 - The Hansel & Gretel exhibit at the Park Ave Armory was really cool.
7/29 - They put my face on all the screens in one section of the armory.
7/30 - Hey Reese, it's a beautiful day to hang at Governor's Island.
8/5 - It's rainy, but this was still a fun ride to Brooklyn.
8/6 - Time to take the motorcycle out again.
8/6 - The Pow Wow was pretty cool.
8/11 - Hey, that's Angelina at Stew Leonard's!
8/11 - Doing a little studio photography tonight.
8/13 - Bicycling on Governor's Island is so much fun!
8/13 - We found some fresh watermelons.
8/11 - The holograms exhibit at the Holocenter was really cool!
8/14 -Dinner at So Gong Dong
8/17 - Awe yeah, video vortex!
8/18 - Shot a deer at lunch (with my camera phone).
8/18 - Craving some late night diner food.
8/19 - There's a Blues BBQ going on over here.
8/20 - Spending the day on a yacht cruising around NYC.
8/20 - We were filming for a Latvian TV show.
8/20 - We had some nice sushi, too.
8/21 - Solar Eclipse much?
8/26 - Great day for a ride to Jersey over the GW.
9/2 - Another little ride over to Governor's Island
9/2 - Selfies with the 360 camera are cool.
9/3 - Finally made it to the Whitney Museum.
9/4 - Doing a little photoshoot today.
9/4 - Photographing ballet dancers is really fun.
9/8 - Time for another nice fashion boat cruise.
9/8 - Dasha randomly saw me tonight!
9/9 - Style Fashion Week at the Intrepid was pretty cool.
9/9 - Many of the young child models were extremely skilled and experienced.
9/9 - Rolls Royce Fashion Week had some egress traffic flow issues.
9/9 - We got to hang with some Rolls Royce cars.
9/9 - The Black Tape Project at the Rolls Royce show was pretty cool too.
9/14 - Seeing Norah Jones play piano at a small venue was pretty amazing.
9/15 - Did I mention photographing ballet dancers is really fun?
9/16 - World's Fair Nano was cool I guess.
9/23 - Went to a Yonkers Street Fair with Harry for lunch and ran into Val & Liga!
9/23 - Of course, there was a fashion show.
9/24 - Time for the 50 mile Tour De Yonkers
9/24 - It was a fun ride!
9/24 - After the Tour de Yonkers, gotta eat.
9/26 - We're going to see Spaceballs!
10/1 - Checking out the car show in Scarsdale.
10/4 - When Microsoft announced discontinuing Groove Music Pass, I fired up the old Zune HD and loaded it up with my music.
10/6 - Here's Keanu Reeves talking about some new movie.
10/7 - My friends were Sith at the 2nd day of Comic Con.
10/7 - Kevin O was not a Sith though.
10/7 - Cosplay shenanigans
10/7 - Seth McFarlane joined via Skype. The Orville and Family Guy panels were hilarious!
10/7 - For the 3rd day of Comic Con, my friends dressed as wildling white walkers.
10/6 - I wasn't doing the Cosplay thing.
10/7 - Michelle Yoeh surprised everyone at the Star Trek Discovery panel.
10/8 - On the 4th day of Cosplay, we found Kevin O's baby son.
10/14 - Checking out some cool exhibits at Governor's Island.
10/20 - A little more studio photography
10/20 - Checking out some new Samsung stuff.
10/21 - Awe yeah, another day at the NY Botanical Gardens!
10/21 - It was a beautiful but crowded day at the Chihuly exhibit.
10/22 - M. Jolene sent me a present for the bicycle and I love it.
10/22 - The custom frame bag pouch even has my name embroidered on it!
10/24 - Checking out a little Cybersecurity workshop with Eugene.
10/25 - The night time Chihuly exhibit feels totally different.
10/25 - Liga had fun at the NYBG, too.
10/25 - Oh no, we found the world's largest squash!
10/28 - Checking out the PhotoPlus Expo. It wasn't very crowded for a Saturday.
10/31 - Halloween party time!
10/31 - Happy Halloween!
11/6 - A little cocktail party with the new president of our old alma mater.
11/6 - Hanging at the Xbox One X launch party.
11/9 - Lilli Spina's fashion show dinner party in Greenwich was really fun.
11/9 - The Pearl at Longshore restaurant is really nice.
11/10 - Hey, there's one of my photos in LA Magazine.
11/10 - Ooh, the first crowd-developed tablet PC.
11/11 - The view from Gaonnuri is nice & the Korean food is great.
11/12 - Shooting the Kia Von Vega show was fun even though it was a bit of a trek.
11/12 - One of the models took our picture backstage.
11/12 - Here's the other end of the previous photo.
11/12 - After the show we went out for a nice dinner.
11/14 - Wow! The Eve V is the first crowd-made tablet PC and it's really good.
11/15 - Trying new VR games from HTC was fun for a little bit.
11/24 - It's the infitiy rooms exhibit! Cool!
11/24 - Another infinity room.
11/24 - We had fun even though it was a 2 hour line for a 5 minute viewing.
11/25 - Beautiful night in the City after seeing Justice League.
11/26 - Time to clean and winterize this guy.
11/30 - It was packed seeing the best worst-movie; The Room.
12/2 - Trying on some new motorcycles with Dave.
12/2 - Checking out the Google Pop-up store & Google VR. (The VR sucked)
12/5 - Rosy's helping test out the camera on the Huawei Honor 7X
12/5 - Those fake blur phone filters are really dumb.
12/5 - Rosy needs coffee AND orange juice tonight.
12/6 - I had a salad in my hand when Soung said, Saigonese? So the salad lost out on that one!
12/8 - The Disaster Artist was a great movie!
12/9 - Whoa! Plugged an Xbox controller into the Lumia 950 and can play all the old Universal Emulator games.
12/14 - We just watched Star Wars the Last Jedi and it was awesome (but also dumb).
12/17 - 3 Art Club friends in the City and we're all using old Nokia phones.
12/17 - We got in line at the Google Home promotion for free donuts. Unfortunately, one of us won a Google Home.
12/17 - Paula's first time walking the Brooklyn Bridge.
12/23 - Time to try the Worcester Escape Rooms
12/24 - Christmas Eve at Trevor's Honeycomb Hide-out.
12/25 - Time to wrap my nephew's present.
12/25 - All aboard the gravy strain!
12/25 - Christmas with the cousins.
12/25 - Free refills, so we got lots of straws.
12/25 - Christmas night movie tradition.
12/26 - More Christmassing
12/26 - M. Jolene got the new business cards.
12/26 - Still gotta do the chores
12/26 - The baby horse is getting big.
12/26 - More Christmassing
12/27 - Sometimes old video games are the best.
12/27 - Time for lunch?
12/27 - Time to go.
12/28 - This one is an insurance salesman probably.
12/28 - Mason's playing old Super Mario Bros on his new Nintendo, too!?
12/28 - More Christmassing!
12/28 - Game time (We're playing Cuphead)
12/28 - Out to see "Daddy's Home 2" at the Strand Theater
12/29 - Mac & Cheese time!
12/29 - Oops, we played video games all day.
12/30 - Let's try this blueberry syrup from Maine.
12/30 - Gotta visit cousin Benjamin, too.
12/30 - Now for more video games with Cousin Amy!
12/31 - Ready to go to lunch!
12/31 - Let's see how Grammy's doing.
12/31 - More Christmassing!
12/31 - Is Cousin Rochelle photo bombing us?