Every day on my run in Central Park I see things that would be nice to share via photographs, so today I took the opportunity while I was carrying my camera for the marathon. This is the south side of the reservoir looking toward the Upper West Side. It’s a much better view shortly after sunrise, because the light from the east makes the buildings glow orange and pink while the sky behind is still pre-dawn violet.

On weekday mornings you see kids walking with their parents to school. On weekends, soccer.

If I step back far enough to get the scope of this area for downed trees, it’s so far away you can’t tell what it is. This is where you can see just how much damage was done in that storm a while back. The volume of wood is incredible.

This is the corner where I enter and exit the park every day. It’s halfway up a long hill, which means I have to start on a hill and end on a hill. But I never have to run the whole hill all at once, so it’s a pretty good arrangement.

Running with an SLR is harder than I always think it ought to be. My little D40 isn’t much bigger or heavier than a water bottle, and people run with water bottles all the time, so there must be a better way to do it. Maybe there’s a way to rig a water bottle belt to hold a camera securely. Surely there would be a market for a device like that since so many of the places with good running also have good scenery.