Category: New York City
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Moving To New York Is Like Joining A Cult
The Big Apple. La Gran Manzana. Home of Lady Liberty. Backdrop to all my favorite books, TV shows, and movies. By the time I moved here at age 37, I had already spent time living in other East Coast cities: DC, Boston, Philadelpha. I was a seasoned Northeasterner, finally having arrived atop the jewel in…
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Boxes Made of Stone and Steel
Photo taken on Broadway and 20th Street, walking Northwest from Union Square to the Flatiron District. Featured in the center is the neo-Renaissance Warren Building, completed in 1891. In spite of the catchy blog post title, the building is made of Roman brick, trimmed with marble and terra cotta (per newyorkitecture.com). I bet there’s steel…
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April Showers
I’ve been off social media for one whole week. Haven’t missed it, other than realizing that “Instagram stories” would be the number one place where I would post most of my photographic gems lately. So here I am back on my 15-year-old photography blog instead. I can’t let these images go unseen. Rainy Day in…
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A Moment Worth Recording
“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. A photograph celebrates neither…
Virtually Gina 