no jackets required.

saturday brought on unseasonably warm weather, enough so that i could amble around a city without a jacket. i happened to also finally receive my brand spankin' new celine leopard print loafers that i absolutely looooooveeee that day. i thought i'd take them out for a spin, and seeing as i'll probably never appear on the sartorialist, i thought i'd have my own little - completely gratuitous - photoshoot with them on the high line. however, my favorite accessory that day ended up being my warm jacques torres cookie (i haven't given up my cookie blog yet!) that later found it's way into my favorite carry-all of all, my stomach. stomach's are convenient like that, aren't they?

i didn't realize how awkward posing for the sake out of your outfit could be, but then again, i hate taking pictures of myself in general. i look at fashion blogs on a daily basis, and it always seems so easy! it definitely didn't help that the high line served as a playground for serious and amateur photographers alike that day, all sporting crazy expensive cameras (both film and digital) with their equally crazy expensive lenses. i even spotted one of those 1920s vintage camera in action (aka someone standing guard while his picture developed). i definitely felt a little camera/lens envy, and it didn't help that some of them were carrying said cameras while toting their crazy expensive birkin bags. anywayyyy, picture time!

trying my best not to put on my customary bitchy face.

celine leopard-print loafers / jacques torres cookie [ignore the chocolate stains..it was gooey]

i haven't seen a full-length shot of myself in a while. ah, winter chubs! i definitely need to lay off the cookies before spring arrives.. but doesn't the camera add 10 pounds? so by my calculations, i need to gain 5 pounds? right? right.

however, today turned out to be even warmer, so i ventured out the central park (withajacketbuti'msureicould'vedonewithoutitifiworeasweater). apparently, i wasn't the only brilliant one with this idea as central park was packed. i tried to find a somewhat empty spot so that i could take photos in peace, but obviously, i failed. there was not a nook that a tourist did not fill. what a fail.. but not bigger than my complete fail with my new film camera. i unwittingly adjusted my exposure settings to -1.0 (i.e. all my photos are trying to compensate for light that was not lacking at all on this cloudless, sunny sunday).. wompwompppppp. i'm not excited to develop my film at all, but i'm still extremely curious to see how they turned out. anyway, i did manage to find one of my favorite spots in central park, the shakespeare garden, somewhat secluded. love that it's relatively unknown as i definitely needed some privacy to constantly adjust and readjust all the settings on my film camera, but here are two shots from the digital camera, which i definitely neglected a bit today..



shakespeare garden / en route to levain!


picked up a WARM oatmeal raisin levain cookie afterward. best cookie ever. no pictures obviously because i don't think there's fast enough shutter speed to capture the cookie before it's annihilated.