Last Thursday was the first Thanksgiving I spent in New York. Since I was in the city, I obviously had to go see the Macy’s Parade. Sean and I got to Columbus Circle pretty early, but I guess we weren’t early enough. Most of the streets were pretty crowded. Since many of the streets were blocked off by NYPD, we had a hard time getting around.

We finally found a decent place around 57th street. Unfortunately there were trees and street signs in the way. Sean ended up using his camera as a periscope. I raised my camera above my head to take shots, something that is pretty hard with an SLR lacking live view. Here is how much space I had.

I couldn’t get good pictures of the floats, bands, etc. but I could get some decent shots of the huge balloons.

You can see below how most people were taking photos.

Finally after what seemed like an eternity, Santa Clause arrived with his reindeer. It was definitely an experience. I would probably go again if I could get there earlier or get tickets.

I feel a little guilty. This is my first post in a few months. Hopefully I’ll have a post done this week about my adventures with manual lenses on DSLRs. And I have a slideshow below of the few pictures I uploaded.