Posts Tagged broadway
up in smoke
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on January 4, 2012
last night i looked out of the window and saw this
nyc – 11pm – 95 degrees
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on July 23, 2011
surfing the heat wave like a boss.
my hood #6
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on April 15, 2011
here are a few pictures i snapped last saturday
this is beautiful. i friggin love everything about it. i love what's happening. i love where it's happening. i love the backwards/inside-out dress. i love that they let me take the picture. i love it all.
how basketball was born
by the look of that window, i guess they've played here before
bow chika wow wow
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on September 13, 2010
this girl is built like an exotic car. the kind that you know exist but you don’t really think about it till you see one in the wild – then you’re like “woah,” but you don’t want to stare too long because you don’t want the owner to think you’re gawking so you kind of look away with a “whatever” look on your face like it’s no big deal, but it’s only because inside you’re like “dude, that is NOT fair.”
hair/makeup/styling by shelley van gage
yoga and belly dancing
Posted by mareadyphotography in fitness/sports on July 2, 2010
i got a voicemail from erin the night before we were supposed to shoot saying, “i’m having contractions today and i’m in a little pain, so i’m not sure how it’s going to work out for tomorrow…” that was kinda scary. but she ended up feeling better and we got some nice pictures. but dude, that baby was ready to come out. it was kinda rad because she was really still and it was pretty quiet on set, but she had a fully grown bundle of joy in her belly doing the Carlton Banks.
Nicole LeBris
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on April 26, 2010
sometimes you’ll see someone who’s not a model on a set and you’re like, ” dude, why aren’t THEY in front of the camera?” that’s pretty much how nicole got her start. she was a makeup artist/hair stylist and eventually somebody told her she was on the wrong end of the camera. good thing, too – cause she’s pretty awesome at modeling.
check out more shots of her on her site HERE
my hood #3
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on March 29, 2010
check out the other shots of my hood here:
there's so many things i like about this scene. i mean, maybe its the girls braids with the blue beads, the motion of the throw, the girls vs. boys, the open courtyard, the trash in the corner... it's all really beautiful to me.
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- when window styling gets awesome
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- scooters with training wheels are weird. this girl was so dang cute.
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- photos like this mean a lot to me. there’s a cool story there somewhere.
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- somebody walked up to him and asked, “so does selling this stuff give you enough to make a living?” and he said, “nah, but i gotta do it to make ends meet.”
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- this sidewalk is always a hot spot for out-of-a-van flea markets
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- the boys playin ball. when i asked if i could take a shot, a couple guys stepped out and said, “nah, i don’t want my picture taken – i appreciate you asking, though” and were super cool.
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- this guy got nailed with like 1000 snowballs. then right afterwards, some girl ran up and did a flying ninja pounce right on this poor fella. it happened too fast for me to catch it.
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- i love this guy’s picture-takin stance
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- goin for the triple lindy.
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- it’s all fun and games until some kid faceplants
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- she said, “go dad, go!”
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- another unhappy sledder
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- plum tuckered out
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- yeeehaawwww
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- i’m gonna pretend that her jacket says “apple blossom” cause a 5 year old with an “apple bottom” jacket just seems wrong
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- school’s out
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- this roach coach is always at the same spot almost every day. and they’re usually always busy.
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- another store of religious stuff. who is that random guy in the middle with the hat?
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- he built this RC car from scratch. that sucker was fast.
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- rat poison in use. keep out.
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- i see a few of these portable mechanic trucks around. if your car is busted, they’ll come to you and fix it right there on the street. it’s pretty awesome.
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- i love this pizza. i’ll even go out of my way to get it. the crust is really salty and it makes it delicious.
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- pizza palace
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- this girl was playing peek-a-boo with me
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- nueva york
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- fresh sqeezed OJ is bomb diggy
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- it’s a minimum security playground
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- sandals, white socks and checkers
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- closed for renovations/court order. before this hood was dominican it was really irish – so there are a ton of irish bars around still
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- chillin on the corner
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- street food
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- there’s so many beautiful things about this shot. i mean, maybe its the girls braids with the blue beads, the motion of the throw, the girls vs. boys, the open courtyard, the trash in the corner… something about this is really beautiful to me.
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- sidewalk fruit and lottery tickets
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- he made a clean catch and took it in for the touchdown
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- the fellas dragged an old couch from the sidewalk trash and got some more use out of it. at one point, they had a huge blue tarp tied to street signs to give them some shade. love it.
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- i like these colors.
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- swingsets and buttcracks
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- the MTA buses are built like tanks. ask that guy’s bumper.
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- broadway
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- a couple games of bones at the end of the day
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- pow pow powerwheels
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- the 1 train in all of it’s glory
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- this is a whole store with nothing but religious statues
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- and tarot cards. nothing brings the occult and catholicism together like reading tarot cards on a prayer mat surrounded by candles with saints on them and thousands of biblical statues.
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- there where a lot of cool things in there.
dumbrella
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on March 15, 2010
i like to imagine the weather reporter talking about the size of a storm by the amount of crappy umbrellas that will be littering the streets the day after. they’d be like, “well john, you can expect tomorrow’s storm to bring a minimum of 5-6 UPB’s (umbrellas per block – you know how T.V. people like to “abbreve” things) then the following day will calm down to about 2-3 UPB…” last night we had a pretty gnarly storm, so this morning i walked down 9 blocks of broadway (almost a half mile) and back to document the carnage. during that 9 block round trip i counted 86 umbrellas. so that makes last nights squall a 9.5 UPB storm.
shower soiree
Posted by mareadyphotography in fashion on January 29, 2010
my makeup artist friend damion wanted to shoot some beauty with one of his male model friends named george, so i was down. last minute he was like, “i think i have a female model coming too. we’ll have them do some doubles.” i was like, “ok, cool. what are we doing for wardrobe?” and he was all, “i think we’re just going to throw them in the tub.” so that was that. BUT, as models are want to do for tests, the female model bailed. i called a model friend of mine and was like, “hey christine, so what are you doing like – right now?” turned out she was down to shoot, so she rolled out and completely crushed it. thanks, christine.
my hood #2
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on June 16, 2009
more shots of my hood
straight chillin on the stoop
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- this girl was crying until i came up with my camera
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- this is the famous iron cross left at the world trade center
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- they were just chillin on the mailbox. they saw my camera and jumped down to pose and i was like, no no no! hop back up!
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- concrete baseball
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- girls just being girly
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- heated game of pokemon or yu-gi-oh or somethin
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- cards and coconut water
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- playing soccer in the middle of people next to the sidewalk sale. there’s something awesome about this scene.
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- girls hang out as the adults play quarters
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- this guy is super nice
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- on holidays, there are grills as far as the eye can see
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- they filmed something for telemundo on our corner for a few days
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- straight chillin on the stoop
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- this got painted over. kinda sad.
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- painting toe nails on the sidewalk
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- this trannie was with the telemundo crew. the kids had no idea what to think.
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- this guy saw me taking a photo of this lady and started hamming it up.
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- it was hot that day
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- sidewalk preaching happens a lot in the summer.
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- i friggin LOVE this.
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- the moms make the kids sit there and listen.
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- there were about 30 people playing basketball on the street to the left of these guys that i wanted to shoot, but one guy got nervous and started saying i was a cop so everybody got sketched. these dudes were cool, though. i actually have 5×7 prints of this picture in my bag ready to give to them when i see em next.
