New York, New York

It was a real dog day of August, and I had a long and tiring shoot, but the view of the city from the roof deck of a hi-rise building in midtown just about made up for everything.

I heart New York

Reflection of Cherry tree at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Painting on a construction site

The Brooklyn Bridge at night

The Cranford Rose Garden at 7AM

Sunset at Battery Park

A wedding at the Brooklyn Bridge Park

Sunset at the Brooklyn Bridge Park

The Statue of Liberty

Once in a while I think about the possibility of living somewhere else and I am reminded of how much I love this city, despite everything. As Le Corbusier wrote in 1936, "A hundred times I have thought New York a catastrophe, and fifty times, it is a beautiful catastrophe." Or, in the words of E.B. White in his gem of a book from 1949, This is New York, "A poem compresses much in a small space and add music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive."

I love this city for the freedom it gives me to be who I am.

I heart NY

Times Square

After the rain

Gowanus Canal

Berries in Prospect Park

New York magazine is having its annual issue of Reasons to Love New York.

Among many other things, I love this city for its varied landscape, with everything from skyscrapers to wild places and all else in between, just like the crazy mix of its citizens. Somehow it all works.

I heart NY

Brooklyn Bridge Park today

It's the end of August and I am having an "I heart NY" moment.