Tag: Long Island
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DSLR Diaries: Misc Fall ’19-Winter ’20
I haven’t done a DSLR Diaries for a little while, and it feels strange, so I’m rummaging through my camera roll for some miscellaneous fall-winter 19/20 photos to share with you guys. To be frank, I haven’t gone shooting much lately as it’s so cold out and the winter wind freezes my little fingers whenever…
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Gallery Mondays: “Sea Dreams” by Peggy Mach
I’ve been to the Babylon Library a handful of times while back home in Long Island, but I’ve never stopped to take a proper photo of this sculpture in front of the building. Called “Sea Dream” the sculpture was created by Peggy Mach and donated to the Village of Babylon in 1983. In it, a…
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Gallery Mondays: Freeport Spirits
I’ve been dabbling in a bit of historical fiction writing over the last couple of months. I recently wrote a short story about pirates, so when I came across this photo in my camera roll I decided it was fitting for this week’s Gallery Mondays. This seafaring scene was found on the wall outside of…
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Gallery Mondays: Celeb Cats
My parents have just moved out to Long Island, so this weekend when I went to visit them I tagged along for some furniture shopping. At Bob’s Furniture in Farmingdale, I saw these hilarious celebrity inspired cat paintings on a children’s bed. One cat is Lady Gaga with the blond bow hair, another is Pharrell…
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‘The X Factor’ Taping at Nassau Coliseum
Yesterday I went out to Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum with my friend Kristell to watch The X Factor taping. I’ve never been part of a live audience before, so this was pretty exciting for me. However, my excitement disappeared when the clock struck 1pm and they weren’t letting us in. The ticket told us to…
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Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby’
Yesterday, for my 19th birthday, I went to see The Great Gatsby (2013) with my guy and my best friend. Not having read the book in high school (due to my transferring between schools with two different English literature curricula, resulting in my having missed the reading of Gatsby by the time I had transferred),…
The Whisper Box 