Scenes Seen: NYC, A Homegoing Service, An X100VI, & A Phone. Part 3. After Dinner… Street Pics.
Subtitle: Quite the weekend.
Life has thrown quite a bit at me lately. All will be fine in the end. However, it has been a challenging week. One of those things was a funeral for my Aunt in Harlem.
Went to pay my respects. Went to support my cousin at this time. Pushed past my hesitancy to attend funerals since my Father passed away. So a bit taxing emotionally. So, as usual, photography came to my rescue.
Instead of separating pics from the trip into different posts, I will include them all in this one.
As I got a gander at how many pics I took, I decided to break these posts up instead.
Another post will be dedicated to the preferred tool used. I spent more time deciding what camera gear to bring than I spent packing clothes. But in the end, I could have brought just one.
Mentioned my phone in the last post.
Since then, I have “upgraded” (Near any modern phone would do.) to the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Mega Thruster GTR 3000… Some of that is made up.
I had my “real” cameras in my backpack. The same bag I used during my past trip to NYC a few years ago.
Seemed a good idea. But stopping to remove gear from my camera bag…
…was not practical.
After the family meal after the service, I put my phone and “real” camera gear away and took the X100VI back out for the rest of the day.
While walking, I defaulted to my usual candid photo camera setup, holding the camera underhanded with my thumb on the shutter and guessing at framing.
To my cousin’s hotel.
Cousins dropped off at the hotel, back to Mt. Vernon.
Up next my last day as I head home.
Happy capturing.
-ELW
Eric L. Woods 