Daily Jake's 365 Challenge

Simple, nice, well taken, good DOF, certainly a good way to 'show' February! :)

Welcome to the second month of your 365, Jake, I expect an amazing one for my birthday! :D
 
good shot Jake :)
 
vince31 said:
Very good Jake !
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Thanks Vince

flook999 said:
hehe I was going to do that but couldnt find a calendar :)
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This is my girlfriends calendar, incase you have spotted the mans hand and wonder why I have it :lol:

Sonriendo said:
Excellent, very nice DOF too :thumbs:
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Thanks Sarah! :)

~Sam~ said:
Simple, nice, well taken, good DOF, certainly a good way to 'show' February! :)

Welcome to the second month of your 365, Jake, I expect an amazing one for my birthday! :D
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Thanks Sam! :D When is your birthday? I have an idea ;)

whipspeed said:
Simple & effective. A good way to maybe start each month.
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Thanks Sarah! It could be, but it might get too repetitive.

carolthomasburns said:
good shot Jake :)
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Thanks Carol!
 
That is a beautiful shot Jake :D Love that sky
 
Todays is lovely, made by the lighting on the trees :thumbs:
 
Wonderful blue sky, great lighting on the trees and nice composition....I really like this, Jake and it's so lovely to be seeing so many photos around which show that we might finally be coming out of the awful grey winter months! :)
 
Great jake I like that... Simple but very effective!
 
MWHCVT said:
Both of this months work really well, blue skies are a wonderful thing :woot: and nicely captured :clap:
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Thanks Matt! :)

carolthomasburns said:
That is a beautiful shot Jake :D Love that sky
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Thanks Carol! :)

Sonriendo said:
Todays is lovely, made by the lighting on the trees :thumbs:
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Thanks Sarah :)

~Sam~ said:
Wonderful blue sky, great lighting on the trees and nice composition....I really like this, Jake and it's so lovely to be seeing so many photos around which show that we might finally be coming out of the awful grey winter months! :)
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Thanks Sam! It was lovely to have the sun out again! Even though it was awful windy! Alas today its grey, cloudy and rainy again :(

Cg_Girl said:
Great jake I like that... Simple but very effective!
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Thanks Trace! :)
 
Excellent work Jake, wish I had time to do stuff like that.
 
I certainly did want to see it and it's a great start to your album! Love the way you've composed those pages and used all your tickets and such! :thumbs:
 
Nice shot of the trees Jake, blue skies are great.
Nice scrapbook too with such variety in it.
When do you go to New York? I spotted your other thread. I was there in March last year, fantastic place.
 
Awww now that's a lovely idea!... looks ace:thumbs:
 
Great shot Jake - love yours and Poppys idea to do the scrapbook :)
 
Sonriendo said:
Excellent work Jake, wish I had time to do stuff like that.
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Thanks Sarah! :) This is one of the plus sides to living at home with mum still!

vince31 said:
Nice shot of the memories of life Jake !
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Thanks Vince!

~Sam~ said:
I certainly did want to see it and it's a great start to your album! Love the way you've composed those pages and used all your tickets and such! :thumbs:
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Thanks Sam! She keeps everything! We've updated it as far as Venice now! Next will be the Forest of Dean in a couple of weeks :)

flook999 said:
blue skies, must be photo shopped :)

couple of good shots there Jake
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I'm not used to this colour! It's okay though, its grey again now! Thanks :)

phil_b said:
Nice shot of the trees Jake, blue skies are great.
Nice scrapbook too with such variety in it.
When do you go to New York? I spotted your other thread. I was there in March last year, fantastic place.
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Thanks Phil! April 15th we go! I'm so excited! Hopefully I'll get some nice shots while I'm there :D

Cg_Girl said:
Awww now that's a lovely idea!... looks ace:thumbs:
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Thanks Trace :)!

MWHCVT said:
Oh that's wonderful Jake, and just think of all the places still for you and Poppy to visit :thumbs:
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Thanks Matt! We've got a few definite places this year! Forest of Dean, followed by New York and a little bit of Harry Potter Studios thrown in for good measure :lol:

carolthomasburns said:
Great shot Jake - love yours and Poppys idea to do the scrapbook :)
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Thanks Carol :)
 
We were in New york for 5 nights, we hardly sat still for 10 minutes the whole time. Top of the rock and empire state building an hour before dark so you get daylight and night shots, boat trip round the island, helicopter trip over harbour, liberty island brooklyn bridge etc, staten island ferry to staten island and back - its free, subway to brooklyn and walked back via brooklyn bridge for great views (my profile pic was taken from brooklyn with manhatten in the background), natural history museum, central park, 5th avenue, times square, battery park, financial district, chinatown, little italy, botanic gardens in the bronx. Mad place and everything is so big.
 
phil_b said:
We were in New york for 5 nights, we hardly sat still for 10 minutes the whole time. Top of the rock and empire state building an hour before dark so you get daylight and night shots, boat trip round the island, helicopter trip over harbour, liberty island brooklyn bridge etc, staten island ferry to staten island and back - its free, subway to brooklyn and walked back via brooklyn bridge for great views (my profile pic was taken from brooklyn with manhatten in the background), natural history museum, central park, 5th avenue, times square, battery park, financial district, chinatown, little italy, botanic gardens in the bronx. Mad place and everything is so big.
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We are there for 7 nights, but not planning on wasting a second of it! I was debating the top of the rock pass where you go up twice in 1 day. Liberty Island is shut at the minute but will hopefully be open again by april! Did you buy a pass for the subway or do you walk it all?
I'm really looking forward to it! You sure did a lot while you were there! If you don't mind my asking, how much approximately did you spend? I've trying to work out how much I need to save up! Feel free to PM me if you don't want to say on here.
 
Hi. We booked a lot of stuff before we left, I think we got a deal on the circle line cruise, the liberty helicopter flight, the empire state building, the top of the rock and the natural history museum for booking it all together from home. We used the subway quite a bit but not enough to warrant buying a week pass, a single ticket was only a couple of dollars I think. If you are there for a week a week pass might be worth it, check out new jersey transit web site. We were staying on 34th st so walked to all the mid town places and got the subway to the bronx uptown and brooklyn, the heliport and staten island ferry etc downtown the couple of days we were down that end. Have you got yourself a good map? It will normally have a good subway map on it too. Dont be afraid of the subway, we never saw any trouble and it is so handy. I cant remember how much we spent, I will check with the wife later, but we had a lot booked as I said so it was mostly only food, drink and transport that we had to buy out there. Oh, go to a broadway show when you are there too, we saw the Lion King, really really good. As I said we did both empire state and Rockefeller buildings, there can sometimes be long queues to get up so we just did them once going up an hour or so before dark and staying a couple of hours and watching the whole city light up. Amazing stuff. And bring a tripod for times square at night, class too.
 
phil_b said:
Hi. We booked a lot of stuff before we left, I think we got a deal on the circle line cruise, the liberty helicopter flight, the empire state building, the top of the rock and the natural history museum for booking it all together from home. We used the subway quite a bit but not enough to warrant buying a week pass, a single ticket was only a couple of dollars I think. If you are there for a week a week pass might be worth it, check out new jersey transit web site. We were staying on 34th st so walked to all the mid town places and got the subway to the bronx uptown and brooklyn, the heliport and staten island ferry etc downtown the couple of days we were down that end. Have you got yourself a good map? It will normally have a good subway map on it too. Dont be afraid of the subway, we never saw any trouble and it is so handy. I cant remember how much we spent, I will check with the wife later, but we had a lot booked as I said so it was mostly only food, drink and transport that we had to buy out there. Oh, go to a broadway show when you are there too, we saw the Lion King, really really good. As I said we did both empire state and Rockefeller buildings, there can sometimes be long queues to get up so we just did them once going up an hour or so before dark and staying a couple of hours and watching the whole city light up. Amazing stuff. And bring a tripod for times square at night, class too.
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I've been looking at buying a lot of the stuff in advance. We're going to do Madame Tussauds and probably Central Park Zoo. I don't know about the helicopter ride, it's quite expensive. If we go to watch a Broadway show I'm pretty sure it will be Chicago, as Poppy is a fan!
I've got a Thomas Cook New York guide book I bought from Amazon, which I havent yet looked at, but if that's not good enough I'll find some more things.
I'm going to be taking the big Giotto's Tripod (is there enough room to use it in Time Square etc?) for some more in depth thought out shots, and I will most probably buy a gorillapod as there not too expensive.
I'm sure the subway will be fine, it can't be much different to the underground in London and that's easy enough!
My hotel is on the corner of 8th Ave & 34th St, so we're in a similar place to you for walking distances.
Thank you for all the advise! Fountain of knowledge :lol:
 
What a lovely idea, wish me and and the Mrs had time to do stuff like that before the kids came along we never even went on holiday!!! Keep it up it will lovely to look back on!
 
Ferj said:
What a lovely idea, wish me and and the Mrs had time to do stuff like that before the kids came along we never even went on holiday!!! Keep it up it will lovely to look back on!
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You should do one now, get the kids involved! (assuming they're not babies.)
Thanks :)
 
JakeT1992 said:
I've been looking at buying a lot of the stuff in advance. We're going to do Madame Tussauds and probably Central Park Zoo. I don't know about the helicopter ride, it's quite expensive. If we go to watch a Broadway show I'm pretty sure it will be Chicago, as Poppy is a fan!
I've got a Thomas Cook New York guide book I bought from Amazon, which I havent yet looked at, but if that's not good enough I'll find some more things.
I'm going to be taking the big Giotto's Tripod (is there enough room to use it in Time Square etc?) for some more in depth thought out shots, and I will most probably buy a gorillapod as there not too expensive.
I'm sure the subway will be fine, it can't be much different to the underground in London and that's easy enough!
My hotel is on the corner of 8th Ave & 34th St, so we're in a similar place to you for walking distances.
Thank you for all the advise! Fountain of knowledge :lol:
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I had a gorrilapod with me and used it quite a bit, the big tripod you should be able to get away with in Times Square ok. There is a big grandstand type thing at one end of the square and a lot of people were going right to the top at the back and using tripods there where they were in no ones way. I bought AA City Guides for the 2 times I have been over there, they list all the best sights and have a good fold out map in the back that you can take out and about with you. Anything else I can help with just shout.
 
phil_b said:
I had a gorrilapod with me and used it quite a bit, the big tripod you should be able to get away with in Times Square ok. There is a big grandstand type thing at one end of the square and a lot of people were going right to the top at the back and using tripods there where they were in no ones way. I bought AA City Guides for the 2 times I have been over there, they list all the best sights and have a good fold out map in the back that you can take out and about with you. Anything else I can help with just shout.
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I think I'll invest in one then! :)
I'll have a look at those AA City Guides on amazon in a second! I'll probably buy one of them too!
Thanks Phil!
 
Well, someone's getting excited! :lol: I was reading your other thread a couple of days ago and getting very jealous! I have only been once, when I was very young, and can only vividly remember 3 things....I went to the top of the Empire State Building, I very nearly got covered in pigeon poop and my tooth fell out on the last night! :D :lol:
 
vince31 said:
Classic shot Jake , very nice
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Thanks Vince :)

Homer_simpson said:
I don't think your doing enough pre event research, he he. Well done nice shot.
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Thanks Homer! :lol:

~Sam~ said:
Well, someone's getting excited! :lol: I was reading your other thread a couple of days ago and getting very jealous! I have only been once, when I was very young, and can only vividly remember 3 things....I went to the top of the Empire State Building, I very nearly got covered in pigeon poop and my tooth fell out on the last night! :D :lol:
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I am very excited!! Like mega amounts!! Can you tell? :thinking: :lol:
It sounds like you had a good time! :P

Cg_Girl said:
Jealous!!! lol
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:D
 
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