Had to consider do I post a photo “peopled or unpeopled”?
Aunt Mary, Michael, Maura and Jack look across the Hudson River to New Jersey. Documenting the Thanksgiving vacation, saving memories of a childhood experience for reference.
Tag: Hudson River
The Real World by Tom Otterness
Artist Tom Otterness created The Real World installed in 1992
(You can see more of his artwork Life Underground at the 14th Street-Eighth Avenue Subway Station)
Also known as Penny Park along the Hudson River in New York City.
Michael, Jack and Maura enjoyed exploring the bronze sculptures.
We were headed to the Staten Island Ferry- at the end of the day our walking total was just shy of nine miles.
A Man and his Dog, Long Island Selfie-Stick Girls, a Food Line and Sunset on Hudson
A man and his dog. Central Park Sunday. He was calling and waving to his family. Before the Greek Parade on Fifth.
Is this a Basenji? no, says Dog Expert Juilia. Thanks She sent this pic of an Ibizan Hound
I asked these girls if they would pose with their selfie stick so I could show my high school students in photography class next week. Later I asked where they were from….. Long Island!
Food line on Sixth Avenue with reflection in the fountain some birds are using as a bird bath
Silhouettes of another man and his dog at sunset – New Jersey across the Hudson River
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette Gallery
NOTE: If you are not a WordPress Blogger just skip down to the collection of Silhouette Gallery photos
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So WordPress decided to change the editor where one creates a new post and I just couldn’t see how it is any sort of an improved model. Perhaps it just takes some getting accustomed to the new format?
“No worries, just switch to classic mode” they reassured me at the top of the WordPress Page. I clicked.
And then when you click :PREVIEW the post from the classic mode, it then reverts to the New Editor, it does not stay in “classic mode”
Life is all about change and our ability to adapt to change, right?
But sometimes CHANGE is NOT an improvement.
(And what the heck is the BEEP BEEP BOOP someone created for the loading while you wait? Oh my)
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Now back to our regularly scheduled programming and I know talking about computer issues bores people.
MY SILHOUETTE GALLERY – You’ve seen a few of these before if you follow the blog
St. John at Cupples Field South Side
Looking up Murray Avenue
Family at Smith Mountain Lake
Hudson River Silhouettes
July Fireworks at The Lakes
Michael on the Zip Line
Maura at the Strawberry Farm
Wedding
Dinosaur Demolition (you’ve seen this one before)
Looking to New Jersey
Birds on a wire
Celeste as a bride last weekend. I was actually trying to get a good silhouette but it didn’t quite work out.
Winter trees in Highland Park
Gigapan Work on Mt. Washington
Semi Silhouette of Superman in Hardy Virginia
Staten Island Ferry Ride – New York City
Fact: 365 days a year, 24 hours a day
Fact: a 5 mile trip, about 25 minutes one way
Fact: 21 million people a year ride the Staten Island Ferry
Fact: There are nine ferries in the fleet
Fact: The three new ferries were made in Wisconsin at Marinette Marine
Fact: If you saw the movie Working Girl in 1988 the ferry is in the opening credits (see link below)
How much does it cost to ride? It’s free. And a lot of fun. We used to go when the kids were younger. It was one activity I really wanted to do again this visit to NYC.
Mary and I went boarded and rode over to Staten Island. We stood outside on the upper deck. After a smooth voyage and wonderful view, we got off as everyone has to get off the ferry.
We walked down the ramp and followed a path and then got right back onto the very same ferry to return to Manhattan.
As we left Manhattan and looked back
A different Staten Island Ferry in the harbor. Brooklyn Bridge in the background.
The Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty Framed in the Ferry Door
A pigeon is a passenger on the ferry
Ready to disembark
Passengers waiting for the doors to open so they can board the ferry on the Manhattan side
Carly Simon sings Let the River Run Opening Credits of movie Working Girl 1988
Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through Your Eyes
The challenge of curves spoke to me immediately.
This week’s challenge – the world through your eyes, did not.
But then I looked at the photo of my sister in NYC from the other night, the reflection of Freedom Tower (behind the buildings in the foreground) in her sunglasses as we sat along the Hudson River at Battery Park. A literal interpretation. It seems I set it up AFTER reading the challenge today.
