State of Independence

It is August and that means the annual trek to Central Pennsylvania for Penn State football media day! For the Sisaks that means part-work, part-getaway. We made the trip up to State College on Thursday night, but made several miscalculations along the way. Among them: detouring to Queens Boulevard to avoid Grand Central Parkway construction, but not knowing how that would get us to the L.I.E. (it did, eventually) and exiting the New Jersey Turnpike in the wrong part of Newark (good for a connection to I-78, but not the desired I-80). I rode shotgun and snapped some photos, including an eerie scene when fog meets the lighting at a highway rest stop, Chase Utley at a Wawa, dad pumping gas and a moth on the windshield. Yum.

400!

After years of talking, dreaming and drooling, I recently pulled the trigger on a major acquisition. Like the Braves' trade for Mark Teixeira, my purchase of a super-duper new lens -- the Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM -- will hopefully put me (and my long-distance photographs) over the top! Here are some photos of me, acting like a goofball, and opening my new toy. Since I'm too young, too single and too poor to have a son or a daughter, this will have to do for now...

Slippery When Wet

New York City is slippery when wet. A severe rainstorm Wednesday morning shorted subway service, slowed vehicular traffic and caused hours of delays for hundreds of thousands of commuters. After a few inches of rain, the city that never sleeps lapsed into a coma. After the July steam-pipe explosion explosion on 41st Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan and the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, a wholesale examination of the nation's infrastructure must be a top priority. If rain can cripple a great city, then precipitation should be added to the terrorism watch list.

Welcome

Welcome to the new and improved "A Day In The Life," a blog of photos, thoughts and other things and stuff. The goal is to present to you, my loyal reader, a photo (or series of photos) every day. There will be some writing along the way, and when I travel (like now), these pages will be used to chronicle some of the journey. So, in honor of the late talk-show host Tom Snyder, sit back, relax, fire up a Colortini and watch the pictures as we fly them through the air. This is "A Day In The Life" on sisakphoto.com.