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"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

Laurence J. Peter

The Best of 2020

    The following is a smattering of images taken while I'm doing stuff on the weekends in the year 2020 (in chronological order). They are representative of the best events, not the best photography. Click a thumbnail to see the caption and you can swipe or click to see the next image in the gallery.

1/1 - Welcome to the roaring 20's!
1/6 - Cauliflower pizza crust? Yum!
1/10 - Work work work!
1/11 - New year's bicycle ride.
1/12 - Rolling over the Bronx River.
1/14 - Installing a DNS black-hole on my VPN server using my phone and SSH.
1/22 - Only a little snow at the office this winter.
1/22 - Awesome dinner with these ladies at Hangawi.
1/24 - Yay, sunset time!
1/29 - We went to a commercial photography portfolio showcase cocktail party.
1/29 - There was a little photo shoot at the party, too.
1/29 - I got a new profile pic by Allison Orenstein.
2/1 - Hanging with famous Alicia Witt again.
2/2 - It's always great to see Alicia play piano, too.
2/2 - Visiting Liga to do some photos at the Curve Expo.
2/2 - Shooting at Curve Expo!
2/3 - Checking out the Samsung Galaxy S20 series!
2/5 - Pho at Saigonese? Don't have to ask me twice!
2/9 - Plan B Burgers? Not as good as they used to be.
2/10 - Working the BIO CEO & Investor conference.
2/11 - We gotta edit and post as the events are happening.
2/11 - Two long days of photography & editing and we are tired now!
2/15 - Harlem Fashion Week! Fun show!
2/19 - Dinner at Eataly
2/22 - We had a great time at the Arcadia augmented reality museum!
2/22 - Off to the next location for Harry's birthday
2/22 - Lunch at Tim Ho Wan. We ordered at least 4 of everything.
2/29 - Gallium Linux on a $60 Lenovo Chromebook is pretty great.
3/1 - Let's do some nice headshots for Colleen.
3/1 - Gotta get some soup dumplings!
3/1 - Harry found the Geocache.
3/2 - Running Darktable on a $60 laptop? Awe yeah!
3/7 - This might be the last photo shoot before the Rona.
3/7 - What's up, Nea?
3/7 - Just taking the NYC 7 train.
3/7 - Time for a late lunch!
3/9 - And so begins the pandemic in NY.
3/12 - OpenVPN'd into the office and VNC'd into the Mac.
3/12 - So yeah, I made a gopher hole on my gopher server.
3/14 - Jess is taking pictures in the park like a college student.
3/14 - Don't worry, it's not what you thinkg. The worms are cooked!
3/14 - We just had to get to Miya's sustainable food restaurant before it closes forever.
3/15 - Gotta video chat with the cousins during the COVID era!
3/16 - Art Club video call party!
3/18 - Ray & Darryl impromptu video call chat.
3/20 - It's 70F out. Had to go for a bicycle ride!
3/22 - More video call parties!
3/22 - Might not see Jaime & Anthony all year due to Covid.
3/26 - Video chat with college friends.
3/27 - More bicycling alone to get out of the house.
3/28 - Live stream with Alicia Witt 'cause no one's allowed to go to concerts.
3/29 - What's up, Jenn?
3/30 - Little A is showing me her school calendar.
4/2 - Let me check out Maritess's online magic show.
4/3 - Game night with Drawful 2!
4/4 - Playing cards tonight!
4//5 - Learning how to use the ancient DD command to back up my Linux stuff.
4/6 - Spring time! But we have to wear face masks.
4/6 - Great day for solo exercise!
4/7 - Stay home! Unless you want to go bicycling.
4/9 - Rona self portrait.
4/10 - Video chat night again.
4/12 - Easter time with family! Still quarantined.
4/13 - Had to stand in line for groceries, but some shelves were bare even at 8am.
4/17 - Game night again! Gotta socialize even though were not allowed to see people in real life.
4/17 - Video Call game night means playing Jackbox games online.
4/18 - Stop spreading the virus!
4/19 - New mask from Amazon finally arrived. Lots of people bicylcing in Central Park though.
4/19 - Times Square is a ghost town run by motorcycle gangs now.
4/19 - Walking with your family is still allowed too.
4/20 - Remember the Alamo? It's all boarded up now.
4/21 - Look who else is buying chiichangas for lunch today!
4/23 - Video Call Game Night!
4/25 - Gorgeous day for another bicycle ride.
4/27 - Working from home is fun when I get to do AfterEffects animations.
4/27 - During Covid, it's all video call parties.
4/29 - Time to get tested.
4/30 - Video Call Game night again!
5/1 - Dr. Inna took pictures inside my eyeball.
5/2 - Made it to the top of Bear Mountain, but breathing through a mask makes it rough!
5/4 - Changed out my carbon stem for a stronger one and rode around the Rockefeller Estate.
5/4 - Sorry, everything's closed.
5/5 - I never thought I'd see grocery store aisles like this.
5/7 - Working from Olga's house today.
5/7 - Oh wait, keep your distance.
5/8 - Game night time again!
5/10 - Bicycle Sunday is still happening during the pandemic.
5/12 - Tarrytown is kind of beautiful during the lock down.
5/14 - I got Codium running on Gallium and it's pretty awesome.
5/15 - Another game night during the pandemic. So much fun!
5/16 - Lein family video chat.
5/16 - Bicycling in Manhattan is awesome with no traffic. Times Square is empty!
5/17 - Another bicycle Sunday on the Bronx River Parkway.
5/20 - Picnic by the beach! Keep your mask on.
5/22 - Game night again!
5/24 - Gotta follow the rules at the park.
5/24 - Oh my! We found some amazing Georgian Lemonade!
5/26 - Parking lot picnic time!
5/29 - Jackbox games every week during the pandemic!
5/30 - Little A likes the Jitsi video calls too.
5/30 - Great day for a little ride.
6/3 - We're back to Drawful on the video call game night.
6/4 - Socially distant picnic!
6/4 - Lots of geese wanted to picnic too.
6/6 - Liz's surprise birthday via video call.
6/7 - Bicycle Sunday again!
6/10 - More social distancing picnicing!
6/13 - Ray is seriously ready for some weekend picnicing.
6/13 - We got to do some hiking in CT, too.
6/13 - A great day with friends in CT!
6/14 - The bridge bike path isn't open, so still gotta bicycle on this side of the river.
6/15 - Today's the day Cuomo opens the bridge bike path! I was 5th place to the other side.
6/15 - Did you see me and my bicycle on the news?
6/17 - This time I made some stops along the bridge to see the view.
6/18 - Hanging in the parking lot.
6/18 - Another roll over the bridge, now with Kristen & Harry.
6/21 - Bicycling in Manhattan is so awesome.
6/24 - How do you like grocery shopping during COVID?
6/24 - Parking lot picnic!
6/27 - Ready to hike to some waterfalls in the rain and do some photography.
6/27 - We found the awesome waterfalls!
6/27 - Bushkill waterfalls are awesome!
6/30 - Birthday picnic!
6/30 - Birthday twins in Central Park.
7/1 - More birthday picnics!
7/4 - Great day for a ride to Piermont!
7/12 - Bus Only Black Lives Matter
7/12 - Harry found me on the bicycle. Ha!
7/12 - The Hell's Gate of Randall's Island
7/13 - Video call game night with cats!
7/16 - Awesome picnic for Christie & Robbie's anniversary!
7/18 - Picnic time in Connecticut!
7/18 - Garrett taking the kids for a ride.
7/19 - Bicycling in Manhattan! Check out the WTC!
7/19 - Riding with Vivie & Harry. Look at all the boats in the river!
7/21 - Photographing the Neowise comet tonight!
7/23 - Walking around Prospect Park instead of bicycling.
7/24 - We had a dam picnic by the Kensico Dam.
7/26 - Brunch time at L'escale in Greenwich!
8/1 - Walking on the beach today.
8/1 - Who knew Staten Island had such an interesting beach?
8/2 - These highschool kids didn't have prom or graduation, so we did a pretend photo shoot at the beach.
8/8 - Chillin by the lake and having some stuffed cookies.
8/15 - Christie organized an awesome kayaking day.
8/15 - Kayaking was so much fun.
8/15 - We had about 20 friends kayaking to Bannerman's Island.
8/15 - Belarus is fighting for freedom!
8/20 - Cycling in Piermont.
8/23 - Governor's island is finally open again!
8/23 - Still gotta wear the mask on the bicycle.
8/28 - We hiked out to the big waterfall early in the morning to do some video.
8/28 - Starting Olga's SI Swimsuit video.
8/29 - Scouting for another video shoot.
8/30 - More video shooting for Olga's SI Swim video!
8/30 - Olga's learning to edit video on my Wacom.
9/2 - Little A said, "I know you know this song".. and played "Don't worry be happy".
9/3 - Motorcycle all fixed and running like new!
9/5 - The big 50 for Dan!
9/5 - Selfie with Dan & Josie.
9/6 - Awesome bike ride to Nyack with the guys!
9/7 - Bicycling under the Verrazanno.
9/7 - Made it to Coney Island, too.
9/8 - Awe yeah, lobster roll lunch!
9/11 - Food Truck Park party time.
9/12 - The Surface Duo is kind of cool for video confernce calls.
9/12 - Outdoor dining in Tarrytown is awesome.
9/13 - Pregnancy photos with Nelson and Vivian.
9/19 - Great ride to Long Island City.
9/19 - Main street in Tarrytown is open for eating in the street.
9/27 - Another awesome kayaking trip. This time for sunset.
9/27 - We had a little party on a sandbar in the Hudson.
9/27 - Going back in the dark was a bit rough though.
10/3 - Hiking East Rock.
10/3 - How do you like this post?
10/3 - What a delicious salad.
10/6 - Time to take the Pinebook Pro apart and flash its EMMC with a new OS.
10/7 - We had fun at the Arttech exhibit.
10/7 - Outdoor dining in NYC is pretty awesome.
10/10 - Lunch at the Black Sheep Tavern
10/11 - Playing with 80's toys in the hidey hole just like in 1985.
10/11 - We're all wearing 80's toy t-shirts!
10/11 - So many old toys going off to the Trevor Museum.
10/12 - Mason loves his computer.
10/14 - Hot dogs time!
10/17 - New tires, brakepades, handlebars, and bartape. Riding good!
10/24 - Awesome hike up Beacon Mountain.
10/25 - Beautiful Fall day to ride to Croton Dam.
10/27 - The early voting line was about a mile long.
10/29 - Stephanie is a great model to work with.
11/7 - Beautiful morning to bicycle in Manhattan. Why are random people on the street screaming "woo!" though?
11/7 - On my way home, huge street parties were forming throughout Manhattan!
11/8 - John Boi gave me some tickets to the zoo, so we took some pictures there for the day.
11/10 - Lunch with the guys.
11/10 - Nice day for a motorcycle ride.
11/21 - Happy Birthday, Little A! Too bad it can only be a video call.
11/21 - The weather is so nice, you can wear shorts.
11/26 - Morning Thanksgiving video call game!
11/26 - Sushi, salad, and pizza for Thanksgiving dinner.
11/27 - Black Friday video call game night.
11/28 - It's getting cold, but still gotta get some bicycling in.
12/3 - Time to fill up the tank and put the motorcycle to sleep.
12/4 - Alicia with a full band for her live stream concert this time.
12/6 - Outdoor indoor lunch!
12/6 - Kevin enjoyed the hike to Lyndhurst.
12/12 - Hideki & I at Oksi's gallery opening.
12/13 - Last day for indoor dining in NYC as Covid ramps back up.
12/17 - Another game night as the virus infections rise again.
12/21 - The great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter hasn't been seen like this for 800 years.