JHYC Saturday Race - Blue Peter

I had the pleasure of my first sailing experience with the crew of the "Blue Peter." I extend my gratitude and appreciation to the Jolly Harbor Yacht Club for their good will to a boat noob such as myself.

Cheers!

Natalie Cake Photography Exhibition October 28th

Death of the Drexel Shaft - Kevin Martin

Kevin Martin, a friend of mine whom I went to University with shot the demolition of the infamous "Drexel Shaft" in Philadelphia in November of 2009. It was only today that I found the video. The Shaft stood as a symbol for all the times the bureaucracy of Drexel "shafted" a student or staff member... growing an inch in height for every account. It's fall brings both joyous and nostalgic feelings to me.

Natalie Cake Photography Exhibition

A selection of Natalie Cake's recent Caribbean work will be featured at an Antiguan venue in late October. All works presented will be on sale at exhibition prices. A series of 32 images will be displayed in a framed and matted fine art format with a few 1 of 1 canvases.

Stay tuned for more information.

Downtown St. John's, Antigua

In The Eye of A Category 2 Hurricane

...more photos at dawn.

Hurricane Earl - Camp Out

The eye of the storm is estimated to pass over Antigua at 2am Monday morning. I'll be camping out and hunkered down to ride it out.

Sky over Antigua

5AM Wellness Walk.

Apparently getting 8 hours of sleep isn't important to wellness professionals.
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Montserrat

NCP Montserrat day trip tips:

1. Don't step in an ant pile and proceed to be partially eaten alive on a day that has 10 hours of hiking planned.

... follow this step, and you should have a great time.

The following photo was taken from the cockpit of the 6am Winair flight from Antigua to Montserrat.

Dodge Challenger: Freedom Commercial

Kudos to Dodge for allowing their creatives to produce outside of the box. Can you imagine pitching this idea in its infancy to Dodge executives?

Lake of Fire

Flying east in a small turboprop seventeen thousand feet over the Pennsylvania countryside I peer out my window and find myself visually confused as to what I saw. The horizon was different. At first, I thought I saw the glow of a distant cities’ light pollution. Sodium vapor lights diffusing into the night sky; a common view from an airplane window. A moment passes. The thin crimson disk I saw sitting on the edge of the horizon appeared to be a part of the actual landscape. A thin sliver of the most vibrant red I have ever seen in nature. I realize this wasn’t a city, town, or some other typical high altitude spectacle. It was the very moment the suns rays started to refract around my specific longitude's focal point and appeared to be their strongest. As soon as the event started to occur, it was all ready over. The visual became easily identifiable as a sunrise. For what could have been an entire second, the red side of the light spectrum existed independently as the first sign of dawn. The moment fleeted from my view as the earth rotated its dark side into the sun and the brilliant red was diluted by the increasing amount of light and the rest of the visible spectrum. It was a lake of fire.

Lasagna

It turns out I'm really good at making homemade lasagna.

2010 Update

In order of significance:

I've fallen madly in love.
I'm living in Antigua.
I switched from Canon to Nikon (It was the viewfinder and ISO/noise performance that sold me).
I've started incorporating more seafood into my diet... (reluctantly).

Whitman