I am not a huge Springsteen fan, but I always really loved the cover of his first album that just says “Greetings from Asbury Park.”  Asbury Park is just not a place you’d send a postcard from.  It would be like sending a postcard from some place like Hawthorne, New York.

Now on a related point, New York City is an exciting place and worth getting postcards from, but those always have some kind of regular scenes on them that I don’t feel like show the real city.  So, the following are my suggestions for some real New York City postcards (realer than them there Housewives!):

And I’ve rocked them all.

UH.  I just quoted Jon Bon Jovi.  Gross.  (Note to Mr. Bon Jovi: personally, I think you aren’t bad.  Its just the music…  I can’t really come around to it.)

Anyway, I was looking through the archives and I happened upon these photos.  They are shots of the Warsaw metro and they kind of made me realize that I really need to just pick a place and stay there because I tend to move around, a lot:

I don’t know how else to explain this photo:

OK, I am exaggerating.  The mercury hits I think the 60s which means I didn’t have to put on a scarf to go outside today for the first time in what feels like years.  Winter, I hate you.

Summer on the other hand, well:

Maybe you aren’t so bad.  Maybe:

Oh jeez, I guess a photo like this doesn’t deserve such an astounding introduction, but there is a story behind this one:

Yeah it looks like my standard weird building abstracts that I produce at an alarming rate, but I guess this one is actually special.  Believe it or not, this the abstract that started it all.  This is the building I used to stare at during my first real job and all I’d think about would be how could I photograph it.  Would I use film or slides (HA!)?  How could I capture what it looked like at sunset?  How could I get all of its angles precisely?  The place I worked wasn’t exactly the sort of place that you could actually bring a camera to work, so I had to wait to realize this vision.  But now that it is out there?  What do you all think?