MSCF at CMU

I love December in New York, even though it's starting to get a bit chilly.  The lights, the decor, the holiday spirit keeps the city so warm and bright.  Yesterday, I photographed for QuantNet again, this time at CMU, and had the opportunity to take some photos downtown in the financial district. The architecture is so traditional and ornate compared to the modernized Midtown.

In any case, I'm trying to get through my small backlog of photo edits ... the next photos I'll post probably will be from somewhere warm!

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Finance and Photos

Talk about combining the past with the present - earlier this week, I had an assignment to photograph for QuantNet (an online resource geared towards financial engineering students).  The afternoon started in Midtown, at Quantitative Brokers, where I photographed some still shots of an ongoing interview (day in the life of an employee) and continued on to document the MFE program at Baruch College.  

As I was taking a portrait of a professor, I started talking to him about what he taught (I can be chatty while I photograph sometimes) - and he mentioned he taught in various methods for option pricing - and I responded, "that sounds a lot more complicated than Black Scholes" and he said, "I'm more surprised that a photographer has heard of BS."  Hah!

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