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Best of: August 2025

Simon Abrams September 20, 2025

Trying something new; let's see if I can get it to stick. Here are some of my favorite images that I shot in August. No real trends, unless you count suddenly getting into bird phototgraphy. This image of a grey catbird is one of my absolute favorites photos that I've shot lately. I love the detail and his little face; he's singing in celebration of just having eaten one of those berries.


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I go on kicks every now and again where I bring my Moment 75mm Macro T-Series lens on my lunch walks, and capture macros of the bees and other critters I find. I am usually pretty reliably blown away by the results I get.

Birds, and More Birds

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Aside from the catbird at the top of this post, I got a few other species I had never seen or photographed before (“lifers”, in the parlance of the birding community), including the lesser yellow-legs and an osprey, who made pretty intense eye contact with me. (Cut it out, buddy, I’m married!)

People and Street

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The rest are a melange of images I made during the month. Some are portraits of friends, like fellow photographer and technophile Phil; and the always lovely and talented Zhenya, a friend and former co-worker who I caught up with over a drink. I also attended an event called World Photography Day, hosted by legendary photographer Jamel Shabazz and Brooklyn borough president Antonio Reynoso. The last image is from the Little Brother concert at Brooklyn Bowl.

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My Photography has Gone to the Birds

Simon Abrams July 15, 2025

I told someone recently about my burgeoning interest in birding, and she said “yeah, well, you’re over 50, so that makes sense!” Touché. Well, I recently took a significant step towards being able to actually capture some decent bird images, and that was to buy a big ol’ zoom lens. I got to break it in over 4th of July week/weekend at my brother- and sister-in-laws’ house in New Hampshire. They have a well-trafficked feeder, and along with the Merlin bird id app, it kind of became our primary source of entertainment for the week that we were up there.

White-breasted nuthatch

White-breasted nuthatch

House finch

House finch

Female house finch

Female house finch

Downy woodpecker

Downy woodpecker

Downy woodpecker

Downy woodpecker

Catbird

Catbird

A trio of house finches

A trio of house finches

American goldfinch

American goldfinch

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Catskills

Simon Abrams August 23, 2019
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Wallpaper Wednesday: Bamboo

Simon Abrams August 6, 2014

I think this is bamboo. I'm not a botanist or arborist or herbologist, or any other -ist that would know what type of plant this is, though. All I know is, it was up on the Highline Park and it provided a really nice textural background for some portraits I was shooting that day. Grab it in iPhone, iPad and Desktop sizes via the links below.

Usage rights: no commercial use, please. Link back with credit if you do use/remix this. Don't be a jerk.

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In photography, wallpapers Tags photography, nyc, the highline, park, grass, bamboo, wallpaper, wallpaper wednesday, outdoors, nature
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