If you haven’t yet visited cafe Delectica in Murray Hill or Wave Hill in the Bronx this is a reminder to make a date on your calendar to support and promote your friends in the arts.

Cyanotype Spring Tree, by Dan Peyton

Delectica is now featuring eleven of my travel and food images and if you bring the original post to the cafe (click this link for original post) the cafe will offer you a complimentary soda, lemonade or ice tea with any sandwich or salad entree.

And through July 25th, 2010 the exhibition Propagating Eden at Wave Hill, the public garden and cultural center, is featuring my friend Dan Peyton’s beautiful cyanotype Spring Time.

The perfect Saturday or Sunday itinerary…a visit to Delectica for breakfast or an early lunch, followed by a walk to Grand Central to catch the 1:20pm train to Riverdale for an afternoon at Wave Hill.  On weekends take advantage of Metro North’s city ticket just $3.25 each way.

If you haven’t yet visited both exhibits I hope you will.  Please share this post with friends, family and colleagues to help promote your friends in the arts.

Thank you!

Leslie

The flowers have started to fall off the magnolia trees in Tudor City Greens.

But before they started to fall…

I went back for a few more visits.

This is what I saw…beautiful!  I hope you agree.

Enjoy!

Leslie

Some weeks I’m completely challenged about what to post and then a miracle occurs and I find inspiration.  Many people call this the creative process, I often call it a three letter word.

But it’s Spring!

And Spring is a great time to photograph, mainly because  your fingers don’t turn blue or fall off from holding a camera in frigid temperatures (I had some painful moments this past winter).

But with warmer weather it’s not only easier to have your camera out, there is so much to shoot.

For the past two weeks I have been following the blooming plant life in Tudor City and yes a few rainy days (because we had those too) in Bryant Park.

As you can see my camera and I are very happy Spring has finally sprung.

I’m sure you are too…

Enjoy!

Leslie

I’ve been sharing my iPhone images with everyone.

I love the reactions…

“You took those photos with your iPhone?”.

“You edited those images in your iPhone?”.

“I think I need an iPhone!”

My response…

“Yes, yes, yes!”…

Enjoy!

Leslie

I’m in constant communication with friends in France, we email weekly to keep up with everything going on in our lives.   It fills the gap between seeing each other twice a year.

My friends write in French and I respond in English.  On occasion there is an effort to switch but I love hearing in their own words what’s going.

However, in the past two weeks I have become slightly obsessed with sending them pictures from my iPhone with a short title (some in English, some in French) instead of emails.

These images sum up a moment, they know where I am, what I’m experiencing and can enjoy the moment with me.

It’s a visual break that transports them to New York.   I smile every time I hit send.

These iPhone images continue to surprise me.  Whether shooting or editing right in the phone I can’t get enough.

I hope these images offer everyone a small visual break… or maybe another reason to run to Apple and buy an iPhone.

Enjoy!

Leslie