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Tom and Alex’s friend Lara Longo was having a birthday bash on Saturday night, complete with a schedule of several bars to visit (only 2 out of 4 were actually visited in the end). There were some interesting characters and I’m still enjoying my new semi-fisheye lens so it made for some fun shots.

Check out the clear glasses fashion design student who had 2 drinks then took a nap:

or maybe Brian’s new tattoo:

or just Sam the socialite’s always awesome face

As I’m sure you all know, it’s New Years Day. To celebrate the eve, we had a bash at our apartment and combined it with the neighbors’ party on the second floor to make one big ol’ shindig. As an early Birthday present, my mom ordered me some fun new essentials for my camera - a new tripod, flash cord, and….. semi-FISHEYE LENS! It was pretty much all that was used all evening, as you’ll be able to tell by the resulting photos.

There was Rock Band up here in our apartment on the 3rd floor for most of the night. People floated up and down from floor to floor depending on the mood - to ROCK

or to DRINK.

And as an added surprise, we figured out how to get up onto the roof in time to see the fireworks all around us going off in each of the boroughs at midnight.

Happy New Year!

Went to a big, extravagant Italian wedding in New Jersey yesterday (as a friend, not a photographer this time) and there was quite a good deal of free booze and unlimited wine on our table, so I wound up taking a few fun shots in the end.

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Halloween party at Ingrid’s - costumes optional - resulted in a pretty large album of fun (full disclosure: and some blurry) photos.

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Went to Piano’s on a sudden whim suggested by Alex to check out Piano’s weekly Karaoke Killed the Cat’s Halloween night, all of us decked out in some sort of costume on. Click on the photos to check out all the pictures.