A rainy day in NYC (photo gallery)

After visiting the PhotoPlus expo the three of us headed back in the direction of Penn Station with the intention of finding food along the way before taking the subway in the general direction of Ground Zero.

We wound up at the Tick Tock diner for lunch which turned out to be a pretty amusing time. One of the waitresses decided to chat us up about our cameras and she played with a couple of ours (not mine, it was the smallest and least exciting looking of the bunch, I traveled light for this trip).

We left the diner and helped a lost tourist trying to find an open photo store (Adorama and B&H are both closed on Saturdays) when we were on our way from lunch to the subway. We debated briefly over which subway to take but apparently I chose correctly because we wound up right where we wanted to be.

Waiting for the subway wasn’t without excitement. We got to watch the subway conductor and the guy in the red shirt have it out over because the red shirted guy shoving his foot in the closing subway car doors. I snapped a few pictures of this but another photographer was shooting away with a Jobo gorillapod stuck to permanently to the bottom of his camera. He then whipped out a voice recorder and started recording the exchange. I wish I had time to adjust settings on my camera, but sometimes you just have to go with what you’ve got.

Down at Ground Zero we basically walked all the way around the site and took pictures as we went. The rain was only starting to threaten us so we didn’t think much of it yet, and the sun hadn’t completely disappeared. After circling Ground Zero from the outside we walked through the World Financial Center and shot some more before having some gelato.

We made some more stops at J and R, a failed attempt to get some food at Max Brenner’s and a brief stop at Grand Central to appease the one member of our party who had never been there. We finally worked our way back to Penn to take the LIRR back out to Joe’s and ended the long and tiring day with some pizza.

The full gallery with all the shots is below.