A Brizo Brouhaha
Today finds your intrepid correspondent in New York City, as the fortunate guest of Brizo, for their fashion week events, a brouhaha of bloggers, and the Jason Wu fashion show. You may have heard there’s a little bit of weather affecting travel to, from, and on the East Coast today, so I’m thankful for the amazing foresight (ahem, dumb luck) that brought me here a whole day early.
There was a lull in the snowfall a little earlier, so I ventured out into a city reduced to stark monochrome by leaden skies and fallen snow. I had my trusty Olympus PEN E-PL1 with me, and I was hugely impressed with the innate design sense exhibited by the denizens of this city. Thank you, thank you, New Yorkers, for your demonstration of the power of contrast and emphasis:

Thank you for your little pops of color

Thank you for your red hat and gloves

Thank you for your little scarlet purse

Thank you for your big red brolly ...

... and your purple one

My favorite or all, thank you for those orange boots!
I know you are aware of the importance of contrast to create emphasis in your home environment too – and just so that I keep a little to subject, and as a shameless, but well deserved, plug – what better way to add a little accent to your bath than Brizo’s RSVP faucet? Isn’t that crystal finial the perfect foil to the strokable curves?
Of course my biggest thank you of all goes to those wonderful folks at Brizo who have made it possible for me to be here today, and who are working hard to help the other traveling bloggers fight their way through snow and travel chaos to get here too. Let the brouhaha begin!
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A note from Clarity: Some of you asked if I took these photos, and how I got the special effects. Well, yes, I took them, really they just jumped out at me that day, and my beloved Olympus PEN E-PL1 did the rest. The special effects are just a result of compression for the blog page, because I am shooting in too high a resolution. If you are shopping for a small camera, and are disappointed with your point and shoot, check out the Digital Pen – it has been 30 years since I enjoyed a camera as much as this one!

Ok, Sarah..did you take those pictures??? They are amazing! Did you do some cool effects?? I am green with envy! I just went through mine and they are lackluster but will be posting on FB later!!!!