Archive for November, 2008
From the Navy Yard to the Graveyard
I went on my second tour of the Brooklyn Navy Yard a week ago this past Sunday and Green-Wood Cemetery yesterday. Both yards are steeped in history and were outstanding tours. Now I have even more pix in my Flickr uploading backlog.
It puzzles me that I was born about 1 1/2 miles away in Sunset Park and don’t think I’ve ever been in Green-Wood Cemetery before. There is an incredible collection of very old trees in the cemetery and it was a beautiful melange of fall foliage to photograph. It is a world class botanical garden in its own right. Living in Brooklyn, who needs to drive to see fall foliage?
It is only recently that the Navy Yard has been open for public tours. There is no doubt that I will be on another tour in the near future. It’s great that they have instituted an outreach program to the community. It is a most interesting place to be with a camera. There are photo ops everywhere, as there are at Green-Wood Cemetery.
Nest Sunday I will go on a walking tour of the Sunset Park Neighborhood where I was born. Now that should be most interesting. The tour guide grew up there in the ’40s and ’50s.
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The Results on Ice
This is what he’s looking at.
At the suggestion of dear daughter Karen, I subwayed over to Rockefeller Center skating rink to shoot some pix of the electoral college map. I’ve got lots of photos of the rink and the map to upload to Flickr but this is my favorite. Have a look at the Flickr photo set here. I’m still working on it.
This guy just walked into this photo. There’s nothing posed here. It’s serendipity that he’s alone. Trust me, there were lots of people constantly walking by.
He’s wearing a Top of the Rock Observation Deck coat and I assume he works there. As you can see he’s pondering the map.
What color do you think his skin is?
I’m not gonna tell ya!
1 comment November 5, 2008
Sold out!
I just read that the NY Times sold all their paper edition copies and printed a second run. No problem here. I shot this on my screen earlier today.
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A New Day has Dawned!
I can’t remember the last time being in one of these iron maiden voting machines. Living in Southern California for so long, I thought Shoup machines were long gone. Yet another trip down memory lane.
This felt like it was the most momentous voting experience of my lifetime. I’m grateful to be alive and to have participated. It is truly a new day in our country’s history. Bravo!
3 comments November 5, 2008
