My Big Apple

So as you all know by now, Colm and I went off to New York last summer. In a fit of nerdiness, the trip was blogged, for anyone who missed it – see the NYC Blog link above. We took some fantastic photos – and so many photos overall that I still haven’t managed to sort them and get the good ones online.

But I digress – one of my favourite photos is of the sun, setting straight down one of the streets (Colm thinks it was 46th Street). It’s not the photo I took from the middle of the road (in New York at sunset, it’s perfectly safe to run out into the middle of the road and take photos – the traffic just isn’t moving), but it’s a damn nice photo all the same.

My other big purchase of last year was the iBook. Unfortunately, a while after, Colm got a PowerBook – and my iBook just hasn’t seemed as shiny since then

So when Antoin came out with Aspoke, I knew this was the thing for me. I wasn’t particularly taken with any of the designs he had – I like photos better than ‘designs’ in general anyway. So I mailed about it, and long story short, he delivered my skin just before I came back to Germany!

It’s amazing – the photo was originally a portrait layout, but it’s been fabulously cropped (keeping in the lamppost, which I think looks cool), and has little film-strip borders. It looks fantastic – and a couple of people have already come up to me in college to ask about it

Colm took some more photos of it – I’m not convinced they show it in all its glory, but they’re better than any I have, and they’re available at http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/photos/ibook/.

The real treat can only be seen in the pictures – in the right light conditions, and when the iBook is on, you can see the apple logo shining through – that’s my really bad pun It’s my Big Apple! Whatever, I think it’s cool!

Thanks Antoin!