Michael McWatters

A middle-aged woman in a dark coat and beanie watches as a subway train pulls into the station.

Union Square

Looking through a window with reflections into a subway station where a woman is walking through turnstiles.

Avenue J, Brooklyn

This is Mayor Adams’ NYC. Do something.

Two women waiting to cross a street, traffic in the background. The woman closest has her back turned toward the camera, and is wearing a bright yellow coat with a blue striped backpack.

Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn

A young man in a hoodie wearing white sunglasses leans against a pole, hands clasped in front of him, in a subway station.

9:27pm

A white pug-type dog sniffing a black handbag that has fallen onto the sidewalk.

City dog

An older Jaguar parked at the curb, street lights reflecting off its shiny paint. In the distance, headlights of oncoming traffic are a blur.

Coney Island Avenue, early evening

Two women in dark jackets stand on a street corner chatting with one another, bathed in early morning sunlight.

Bowery

A female subway commuter wearing a fur-lined coat.

7th Avenue, Brooklyn

A view through a window into a small grocery store. Inside, a man leans over some work, but we cannot see what it is because only his head is in frame.

Grocer

Snow remnants and reflections on an intersection

Intersection

A middle-aged woman looking at the camera, her face reflected in a glass sign, close-crop.

Evening, Union Square

A young man emerges from a bodega holding a large can of Arizona iced tea, evening, fluorescent lights shining down on him. Another young man is leaving the store behind him.

Evening, Avenue J

A dark, early morning scene featuring a coffee cart with pastries on the left, and a partial view of a pedestrian walking past.

Morning, Madison Ave.

click…click……click………..

Naked tree branches light by a nearby sign, nighttime.

Serenade

A woman wearing a dark parka with fur liner and headscarf, seen from behind, car and street lights reflecting on the windows around here, dusk.

Waiting

A middle-aged man seated on a subway, looking to the upper right. On the inside wall of the subway slightly above and to his left is a poster featuring a young woman looking in a similar direction.

Noticing

Sockets don’t flee. They bolt.

Little gems that brought me joy in 2024 A wonderfully incomplete list of video, audio, words, ideas and tech

Some things that brought me joy in 2024—a wonderfully incomplete list of video, audio, text, and tech.

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A reflected image of a man holding a camera, night time, with lights from the street behind.

Selfie

A city street scene reflected in multiple layers on the orange-tinted glass of a clothing store, inside of which are racks of clothing.

On

An starkly lit evening scene of a tanker truck refueling a gas station while the driver stands nearby observing.

Refueling #photography #fujifilm

A candid view inside a salon where an older female stylist is drying the hair of an older female customer who sits wrapped in a red towel.

4:58pm, November 30, 2024

Close-up of the textured surface of a NYC firebox, with a blurred image of a woman's head in the background.

8:41am, November 19, 2024

Evening, shoppers behind an orange-tinted store window, a man closest, sitting in semi-profile, facing away.

6:22pm, November 25, 2024

They’re usually better for stirring than cooking. Just saying.

“Honestly, Alfred, can we have a single holiday photo that isn’t macabre?”—Mrs Hitchcock

A waist-down view of a person wearing red shoes and black pants getting on an escalator.

8:10am, November 22, 2024

You can't edit your way out of everything.