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New York now, London then, I am finally reconciled to being wherever the ticket takes me.
As a stranger in town the camera has become my best friend and constant companion, an eye
through which to see and record the ordinary and extraordinary events of days passing in to
time.
In my meanderings through the crazy, fabulous city that is New York it isn't too hard to come
across certain moments, from displays of bare-breasted bravado to simple walks in the park. It's
all here in the city's streets, home to everyone.
As a result I am most grateful and overwhelmed at the kind willingness of the many
strangers happy enough to share their smiles with me and my camera.
Faces and places. Here, there and in between. I share them here with you.
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Hi..just dropped by at random off the WP forum..read a few of your posts and enjoyed them. You have a nice writing technique that makes them easy to read and make the reader feel good. Write on! 🙂
Thank you so much for taking the time to read, enjoy and comment. I look forward to exploring the poetry of wordsasunder!
That random words should strike such a chord . . .
Hi Patti.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting. Love your pics of Death Valley. The Road…great shot. We are having plenty sun, finally. Hope you have it too.
It is such a wonderful part of the world, you would love it! Thank you for enjoying my postcards!
Hi patti, thank you for liking my post i added you to my blogroll, would you do the same please, harry
Why thank you Mr Dribblingpensioner and it is my absolute pleasure to add you to my blogroll!
I like your blog, it is engaging and well written. Just a thought… have you considered splitting the home page articles (i.e. so that readers have to ‘click to read more’)? It would make it easier to browse the recent posts, plus you would benefit from extra hits if that appeals.
Thank you Stewie for such kind comments and good advice which is so encouraging!
@ stewie and patti, it’s called the ” more ” button and i always use it for that reason and tell others to do so, just must have missed it here
I found the “more” button! Thank you Stewie and Harry for your good advice. Dinner might be burning but I have lifted and separated the home page articles.
Hi Patti i added your site to my blogroll the dribbler told me about it 🙂
Harry, thank you so much! Where would you and the dribbler be without each other? Where would I be without you both?
i know, we work well together almost like a double act 🙂 would you add me ( the other one ) 🙂
Always happy to have a handy man on the blogroll!
Hi Patti
Thanks for coming by Hawleyville! Love what you’ve got going on here and really enjoy your writing style. Will definitely be back for more : )!
Hawleyville is so relaxing and thoughtful, thank YOU!
I love your photos!
Mr Mikey, so sweet of you to say! Thank you for the comp!
Thank you for visiting and commenting on my blog, good luck with your blog 🙂
And thank you in return for coming this far to mine with your generous best wishes, always appreciated, and much needed!
You are very kind to have me on your blogroll. I will do the same with you. Kind regards, E.
So good to hear from you and it has been my absolute pleasure to have you on my blogroll. Your relaxing, albeit extremely artistic style, gives pleasure and admiration to the simplicity of “looking.”
Thank you!
Thanks lots for stopping by to read my blog. Will definitely be back to read more of yours. I agree with all the other comments left. I’ll have to think about the “Home” page suggestion. I’m not technically adept…a little slow on the uptake. But I’m going to tinker a little, doing a blogroll, etc. Have been on a hiatus recently, and am getting back into the swing again, so will be out and about to admire other blogs as you seem to do.
hugs for the comment on my blog…and for sharing…hugmama. 🙂
Oops! Didn’t fill in the necessary info so that my gravatar would identify who I am. So here it is.
told you I wasn’t a techy…hugmamma. 😉
Hello HugMamma, so lovely to have you here,
and I do so love your happy blog!
There is one element of your about page that can really identify with, “Once upon a time I laboured under the delusion that London was home. We put down roots in soil that was scratchy and uncomfortable but we settled in, made a home and made good friends.” I love the phrasing; for I was born in one country, brought up in another, by parents from a 3rd country.
Thank you for commenting on my blog. I would not have found you otherwise
Will definitely be back for more of a daily dose! We invest so much anxiety in questioning “where is home?” only to come to the liberating conclusion that home for me is wherever I am lucky enough to be. It is such a process and I would love to know more about yours! Thank you so much for the visit!
Hi! I use to live in NYC. My husband spent some time in London. Now we are in Connecticut. It’s funny where life takes us. I am looking forward to reading more about your adventures.
Cheers,
Louise
Louise,
hope you are enjoying life in Connecticut, at least you are not too far away from visits to NYC! Yes, it is funny where life takes us, now that I have stopped crying about some of the places it has taken me!
Cheers to you and your family,
PK
Hi Patti
I followed you on Twitter, so will you follow me?
Will do, with pleasure!
Nice blog there 😀
Subhash, thank you so much!
Hi Patti
Thanks for visiting my blog and taking time to leave comments – appreciated 🙂
To answer your question, the hike was about 4 hours, there were some precarious bits so you have to tread carefully, besides, you need some time to just take it all in……..so you tend to stop and just be amazed a lot :-). An amazing area, hope to visit there agin sometime. Thanks again 🙂
You take the photos I would so LOVE to take of places I would so love to explore. Always a pleasure seeing your wonderful work! Lovely to see you here, thank you!
Hi Patti, I hope you’re not still feeling like an outsider? Glad I found your blog (through your stopping by mine)!
HG, you have given me much to think about on my status as an outsider! I feel another blog post coming on . . . until then, thank you so much for stopping by and here’s to that path in life, wherever it takes us!
Congratulations! You are the winner of TWO very prestigious blogging awards. http://wp.me/p1jqDM-NQ
Momfog, thank you so much and congratulations to you for your fine work. I know you will keep it up – hope so because I love reading your view through the fog!
Hi Patti, thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment – otherwise I wouldn’t have found your blog…;) Where’s home? that’s one of my life-questions, too. I was born and live now in Germany, but I have spent 13 years of my life overseas (Mexico and Australia), I have moved town 12 time in my life and when people ask me “where are you from?” I can never tell. You are right- home is where the heart is. I’d love to move to NY for a couple of years. All the best for you! Regards from Germany, Uta
Hello Uta, great to hear from you, thank you so much! “Where are you from?” is always a simple enough question to ask but oh my God how difficult to answer when home keeps moving. A little like asking “how are you?” people expect a simple answer. How I wish I had a simple answer. I was born in Australia, have lived the longest, uninterrupted period of time in London where I expected to stay forever until NY presented itself. Love to hear more about your travels and do hope you get to NY, you would love it! I have reconciled myself to the fact that we only have one life, so much to do, so many places to see, people to meet. I send you these greetings from here in the UK!
Patti, that’s the great thing about the internet. I live in a small town in Germany at the moment – and the internet is my connection to the great, wide world. And yes, as you wrote – we have only one life, so many places to see, people to meet… Life is exiting and I feel very privileged (?) to be able to move around this wonderful world… Thx for following on twitter!
I always look forward to reading your blog, and in that spirit I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Versatile barely begins to describe your talent and I know you have a huge following, but I’m taking this opportunity to add perhaps a few more.
Details are in my post at http://wp.me/p1EiAO-cf Following the award guidelines, the post includes the other nominees that I feel are a must read and a little bit about their blogs. At the end of the post are the instructions for picking up your award and a graphic suitable for framing, if you have a teeny tiny frame. I’ve also updated my blogroll with your blog.
Note: As an extra bonus, there’s a picture of me in the post when I was a Catholic Altar Boy. It’s a convenient wallet sized photo ready to print and carry as a constant reminder of how life can go oh so horribly wrong.
Alan, hear me screaming, squealing?!?!? Thank you so much for being such a fabulous reader and blogger, congrats to you for your well deserved VBA!
Can’t wait to see the photo – I am sure you were a fine, upstanding altar boy. As for First Holy Communion photos . . .
Patti, I was indeed a fine altar boy. But sad to say I was kinda in it for the money. I don’t know about today, but in the dreaded 60’s altar boys got paid for weddings and funerals and I was an angelic commodity.
Patti, you may or may not know that there is a hot debate going on over at Momfog about your place of birth and what city you are currently calling home. Please come over there and straighten this thing out. It’s driving me mad. I already got dribbling pensioner’s nationality wrong. If I’ve made another mistake, I’d like to correct it so I don’t look like an idiot. Thanks. 🙂
Good Lordy, how I love a hot debate! Popping over to Momfog right now . . .
BTW, dribbling pensioner’s apostrophe look’s so out of place. He’s so cute!
Thanks patti for thinking i’m cute 😆 i must learn where to stick my apostrophes etc 🙂
Harry, I love your apostrophes wherever you put them. Don’t you change a thing, the world is a better place for your humourous insights! 🙂
Thanks for that Patti.
Would you look for, harry the handy man or haroldmullan93@yahoo.co.uk. in your subscribers and email subscribers to see if its there , if so, would you remove it for me its my old site.
i’m subscribed by my new site.
Returning the visit! You have excellent entries for so many of the challenges 🙂 Have a great weekend!
I’m glad that I found your interesting blog …
greetings by
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>>patti–
Thank you for your recent comment on my site.
I will link your blog in my Blogroll.
I also will track developments on your site.
Marcjan, my absolute pleasure, thank you and I look fwd to more of your entertaining thoughts.
Hi thanks for dropping by my site. I appreciate it. Have a great day! 🙂
geez, I’ve been remiss – now we are linked pk – even if you don’t surf, which I don’t mind … really
Pete, not sure what the etiquette is about the linking and relieved to hear you don’t mind. You are very right about me not being a surfer. However, I grew up in a large family, the only girl with much older brothers who climbed out of bedroom windows before dawn to take their boards to some beach where they lived on waves. They would be back in time to go to school.
My father was a surfer, lifesaver, you name it. I grew up on the beach as the tagalong. So many of your stories, the yarns, the names, the places put me back in the backseat of the crowded Holden and we are trailing up and down that Pacific Hwy, stopping at this beach, that beach, all the way to Ballina but hoping not to hit that blind spot in Buladelah, or Wyong. No seat belts but plenty of stops along the way where Dad knew every publican. Driving was thirsty work in those days and very much rewarded!
You write so well, what more can I say? Big, big thank you!
Congratulations on your recent nomination by the Island Traveler for the Hope Unites Globally HUG Award. To learn how to accept the award and begin sharing it with others, please read the Guidelines at http://ahopefortoday.com/2012/01/14/hope-unites-globally-hug-award-guidelines/. Blessings, Connie at A Hope for Today.
You have been tagged: http://thedarkglobe.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/noirciplume-has-been-tagged/
One of the few blogs I got seriously lost in for quite some time. It’s wonderful to see you impressions of New York and other cities! Hard to stop looking.
David, thank you so much and so pleased to hear you enjoyed getting lost in the daze!
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Eric, thank you so much!
Wonderful blog! I love it 🙂
Best
Jeet
A personal touch, that moves around and never stays put.
Nice pictures and a very interesting blog!
Regards.
Incredible street photography! Great work! I’m looking forward to see more from you! Greets from Germany
I really love your photography style! Can I follow you? 😉 Nice to meet you Patti!
I’m glad your ticket took you and your camera…artful imagery all over your blog… thank you for sharing your experiences and creative lens.
AnnMarie
Take care my friend and whatever you do…enjoy yourself and immerse yourself fully I to the process.
Hope to see more from you again though soon?
Bob x
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Hi Patty, hope this finds you well and still enjoying London and your stay with your son.(yes i can remember our conversation!) You may not recognise me as last time you saw me i was blue! casually leaving the house at 9am with my friends and about to embark on an epic adventure! we met out side my home, where you became a wonderful part of our day. I’ve just found your card in my coat pocket, and wanted to say how lovely it was to meet you, you really did make our day! and just wanted to say our brief encounter really is what life is all about….
all the best,
the 4 blue faced londoners, Lottie, Lucy, Billy and George x
Nice and “stylish” blog! I like it. I look forward to seeing new posts… Bye. Kamila
Wonderful street photography Patti, you’ve got a great courageous approach and each of your photos tell an interesting story. I will be following your work with interest. 🙂
So glad to have been introduced to you via Monochromia, Patti. I’m looking forward to seeing your photos and reading your stories in my Reader!
Very nice blog, following …keep blogging! Tx 🙂
Have a merry Christmas, Patti. My best to you and your family for the new year!
Enjoyed looking at you blog Patti. I must return a little more often:0)
Hi Patti- Thank you for following my photography blog, Jane’s Lens. I hope you enjoy my images. I love your style of street photography- I am very inspired by your work. Originally from NJ and still consider NY “the city”.
Do you have an interesting blog
Really enjoying your photographs here Patti. I look forward to exploring the infinite variety of NYC with you. Regards Thom.
Hello Patti,
You followed me on Tumblr (videopaper is my nickname) and I followed you back of course :-)) your work being very beautiful and attractive..
I posted a message to you on Tumblr about a project of a film ( I am more filmmaker than photographer in fact) I will shoot on June 2016 at NYC with a French American Actress..You haven’t answered to me ( lack of time or intereest ? :-)) )..But nevermind ! For a lot of reasons, I stopped the collaboration with the actress, but after viewing a very beautiful movie of Gabriele Croppi : NEW YORK, Metaphysics of the Urban Landscape
https://vimeo.com/106164633 I decided to continue my project but with a new approach, mixing those of Gabriele Croppi and mine (see link above)…
I spent 3 days a long time ago in NYC, but of course I don’t know NYC, but you do ! The idea will be you lead me in NYC for shooting (I will have do a list of places where I want to go) …Of course, as I don’t have a lot of money I can defray you rather pay you, but in couterpart, I will shoot you making photographies, and I will edit this movie ( with your validation of course), ths film can be a kind of testimonial on your work…
Tell me if my proposal can interest you…
Looking forward fo reading from you
Best Regards
Didier Feldmann
The abandonment (of color)
https://vimeo.com/77027985
The erasing (of narration)
The magnificent fields, a non-causal movie
https://vimeo.com/82293894
SEE / SEA
Hello Didier, such a pleasure seeing your masterful work vimeo – so many exquisite moments passing through light, music and memory.
Thank you so much for your very kind words both here and on tumblr. Please know that genuine words such as yours send me into shocks of silence until such time as I find the words necessary to express such gratitude.
As for your proposal, I understand how inspiring the work of Gabriele Croppi is and I am more than happy to help you in your further explorations of this fascinating city. Please feel free to email me regarding potential plans.
My best wishes to you,
Patti
Hello Patti, I am happy you had exquisite moments with my movies..you caught exactly and instantly what my films are made and why I film..This moved me.. (and your words moved me too..) I have never had the talent of photographing people on the street (my background is abstract, surrealist work), but by viewing your photographies you are going to make me loving people !!! (I joke…almost !)…Your work gives an intimacy, a proximity with these people, their lives, and what why/how they are in NYC, it’s a kind of instantaneous documentary..
My idea, it to do a conceptual remake of ” Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis of Walter Ruttmann, playing with forms, light, shadows, motions, day, nights, drifts…I prepare my shootings by writing a sort of poem in prose and by creating a “look book” done with photographies found on Internet, which move me for my subject…I will provide you step by step with these materials and of course the organization of my shooting and proposal for your defrayal by being my guide in this city…I think you got my email adresse in the post, could you use to answer il would be easier to exchange documents..
My best wishes to you, … Didier
PS : Sorry for the delay of my response, but I have had to do some bread and butter work (editing some corporate film of the worst kind: interviews !!!)
love your blog! I love new your and london 🙂
If you want, I would invite you to see and follow my blog and fb page!
facebook.com/fabriziobosoniportfolio
fabriziobosoni.wordpress.com
Bye 🙂
Thank you so much Fabrizio, lovely to meet you here and thank you for you kind invitation!
Dear Patti,
because I really appreciate your posts and they mean a lot of inspiration to me, I would like to nominate you for the INFINITY DREAM AWARD.
https://pointblankphoto.wordpress.com
Cheers, Markus
At the end its all about pictures. Pictures in between and objective and subjective. Pictures of life. And pictures out of and into – the heart.
It’s always a pleasure to look at photographs of the everyday life. And your blog is so full of them, Patti. Keep up the excellent work!
You know I am a fan Patti. Have enjoyed hanging out with you on Instagram and look forward to hanging out with you here.
Hi Patti. Thank you for visiting and following HoB. Much appreciated!
Such a pleasure Herman and always good fun over on HoB!
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