Under The Bus

Soul-less and kicked, unceremoniously, to the kerb, this fellow decided his decaffeinated charge would parallel his existence.

Taken: 01/14/2011 in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, NY. The rather weak person with lowered eyes decided that the best place for his can of RedBull was the snow underfoot. Clearly it didn't give him enough energy to throw it into the trash receptacle 35 feet away.

Mixed Bag

Sometimes all you get is a bag of mixed reds. Deal with it. Or be dealt with.

Taken: 09/03/2010 in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY. The woodchips surrounding the bag shuddered at the prospect of being overcoloured but gave up their own bare minimum to the clearly-stronger party. A sort of communal portrait session wherein the weakest hold up the strongest.

Partly Frozen

Mixed into the winter are some options for how to brighten up one's day. Snow is well known to reflect a lot of light and to blind even the most ardent of skiers. In the case of NYC the onliest way found to deal with the dreaded snow-blindness (mother nature's way of humouring our notions of "brightening up the day") is to simply ignore it until the crows come home to roost and upon finding no detail in their old haunts start peppering the ground with their corpses.

Taken: 01/26/2011 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. The sTREEtS were so prettily covered in white that it was hard to resist taking photos. The wind and cold helped with the resistance efforts as they both slowly wore away at my fingers.

I had to wait a few changes of the light in order to get a view of the street unoccupied by moving cars in order to give the illusion of disappearing into nothingness.