POSE-A-PALOOZA

Pose-A-Palooza,...this is still one of my favorite categories, started over a decade ago with the emergence of cel phones and a city swelling with photo-op backgrounds.

done with a bubble gun and situated on a photo-op 

block in Bushwick

OK, not in NY, but a classic moment in San Jose, 

Costa Rica a few weeks ago.

This couple struggled for a while getting the whole 

pie in the pic.

A textured background in Soho.

Pet pix with a very cooperative subject.

Showing off on the High Line one Chelsea

Mom and son doing things the Brooklyn way.

Mom and daughter with a James and Karla storefront reproduction on the Lower East Side.

A 36th birthday in Bushwick.

Leaping with love in Williamsburg.

all photos ©Ken Bown