Lower East Side blue (night blur)

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untitled (blue construction tarp) 2007

With New York temperatures in the 90’s and the humidity not so far behind, I thought a cool blue image might feel good today. I grabbed this shot on the move, while walking with friends last Friday.
And yes, I have been keeping an eye on the temperatures in Berlin this week: 40’s at night, high 50’s during the day. Ahhhhh.

follow the arrow

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untitled (arrows) 2007

Most people were looking at the big hole (the site of the once and future World Trade Center) when we walked through the World Financial Center Winter Garden yesterday afternoon with visiting family members, but this is a quirky view of a part of the construction site below the east windows at the top of the stairs.

Spanish doors

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I fell in love with many of the older doors (and their portals) in Spain, both for their beauty and for the physical scars which mark their survival. In some of the more ancient examples the wood had been replaced at some point and the original hardware re-installed.
The first three images were taken in Madrid, and the last was in the wall of one of the structures which surrounds the monastery/palace El Escorial.