STL DPB ON THE ROAD - NATIVE LAND

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land!

                                        - From a mawkish poem by Sir Walter Scott 

But, my, how it's changed since I lived here. All the shiny new buildings, dominated by One World Trade Center toward the left. This is lower Manhattan taken from across the Hudson in New Jersey. There would normally be a spectacular fireworks display on the water tonight for the 4th of July but thunderstorms are likely.

 

 

CITY DAILY PHOTO JULY THEME - TRANSPARENT

The July theme is a tough one and maybe your admins set the bar a bit high. How do you depict something you can see through? I settled on this. It's not St. Louis but I like it. The location is at the Whitney Museum in New York, in a gallery overlooking the Hudson River at sunset. 

See what other City Daily Photo members can't see at https://citydailyphoto.org/2022/06/23/july-theme-day-transparent/ .               

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - SUNSET AT THE WHITNEY

We usually go to the Whitney when we are in New York. Technically, it's the Whitney Museum of American Art but the exhibits lean heavily modern and contemporary. The architecture is adventurous, with vistas and terraces overlooking the Hudson and New Jersey. The big show now is a Jasper Johns retrospective, which, frankly, felt overwhelming. The view from this room, something that I've photographed many times before, was refreshing for our eyes.               

The Little Island Where I Was Born

14 miles long. Two and a half miles wide at most. Manhattan  where all the world comes and where I came into it. Taken during final approach into LaGuardia Airport.

We're going a ways up the Hudson today for something special.

At The Whitney

A pair of elderly women peer out over the Hudson River from the new Whitney Museum in lower Manhattan.

Our plane was late (had to be de-iced at LaGuardia) and it's way past bedtime as I post this back home. More about the visit over the next couple of days.                      

STL DPB On The Road: In The Hudson River Valley

.My sister and her family live in Ridgewoood, New Jersey, in the northeastern corner of the state. It's the same town my family moved to when we left New York City in 1966. Since my father's birthday was July 7, the family always got together here on the Fourth of July weekend to celebrate. He's been gone since 1996 but we still all show up at Sue's.

Mrs. C and I took a road trip yesterday from Ridgewood up the Hudson Valley. One stop was Bear Mountain. We went looking for views over the Hudson River. This'll do. There was a group of American painters in the mid 19th Century who celebrated this area, known, appropriately enough, as the Hudson River School. They didn't have have Photomatix but it may have been for the good.

FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME DEPARTMENT: the front page article in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch is about our city's disappearing Toynbee Tiles, featuring your humble blogger. Not familiar with Toynbee Tiles? Read the article here and check my posts on the topic here. But if this is the paper's lead article, what does that say about the state of print journalism?

Oh, and happy birthday, America. Here are some shots from Ridgewood's Fourth of July Parade this morning.