A panoramic of the Brooklyn Bridge, Lower Manhattan and Jane’s Carousel in Empire Fulton Ferry Park that edges the East River. I snapped this shot from a new vantage point atop a terrace of the Empire Stores.
Do I revisit a place or should I explore somewhere new? My decision-making in answer to this question about my next photo shoot is made easier when I remember that the old can also be new.
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Don’t let the Brooklyn Bridge or her many admirers fool you. There’s more to the 133-year-old structure than just her Gothic-style towers and web of steel cables.
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It is because I can capture images as described above and featured here that I make regular trips to the exciting area I call the Trio of Brooklyn: the bridge, promenade and park.
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What is a secularist to do when he needs a certain spiritual lift? Some climb to mountain tops; I walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
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A vista of the the Midtown skyline and Queensboro Bridge as seen from Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
I had a mission on a recent Saturday. I wanted to spend the entire day driving along the waterfronts in northern Brooklyn and Queens to take photographs of Manhattan’s skyline from new vantage points.
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The southern tip of Manhattan, as seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
It is an ideal spot to take in many New York icons. Brooklyn Bridge Park, an 85-acre area that spans about a mile along the East River waterfront of Brooklyn Heights, particularly the revitalized Pier 1.
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A couple walk along the beach in Long Beach NY as an airliner heads in for a landing at nearby JFK AIrport. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)