March 2012

(Sep 11) It is past 9 PM on a Sunday night. I head into the city with the ubercamera for a familiar journey. I really don’t know much about how to use the camera still at this point (and still don’t), but I got some good results. Again, this may be the last time they do The Lights, and the neighbors must absolutely hate the installation. So, although I have to move in a couple of days, I get on the train.

Brooklyn Bridge, 1:15 AM. That brightness in the distance turned out to be The Tribute In Light.

Not only did the clouds defile the view, so did the contractor working on the bridge.

Despite these unfortunate circumstances, the ubercamera remained uber.

Oh how far my new camera has come from the others.

At this point, I still wasn’t quite sure they were even on.

A look around… Downtown.

Midtown, Manhattan Bridge, Empire State and Chrysler Buildings. The top of the ESB is in the cloud cover.

There it is.

The clouds were unfortunate, to say the least.

Tributes to the dead.

The new station. It is a big yawn, and no longer opens in a convenient spot (for me).

I wonder what that’s lit for.

I do some version of this shot every time.

Phaser attack?

This was the only decent shot out of a dozen in this same spot, which I’ve used in the past.

One more “it looks like it’s coming from the building” shot.

This one really is coming from the top of the building. This is the parking garage the installation sits atop.

The Lights are not actually at the World Trade Center. There, down the block, is the new One World Trade Center.

Up close, and personal.

I don’t like this shot so much, but it is the last one I took for the evening, and thus possibly the last one I’ll take of the Tribute In Light.