One month ago today we arrived in Brooklyn and had the pleasure of spending a few days with Catherine and Carl. To say it was great is a bit of an understatement. Usually whenever i get to spend time in that area it’s in the city somewhere (or do they call it Manhattan? who knows, it all just confuses me). This year was the first time i’ve ever been to Brooklyn, we didn’t even make it to the city, everything we would need is right there (except for B&H, but everything *else* is there)

Anyway there were about 2 and a half days of seeing the new New York.. Stepping chronologically through this weekend within a week we start with the New York City skyline:

I went out onto the roof of the apartment building after returning home from a great dinner in Jackson Heights, Queens with Bill, Heather, Max and Mumsy. Maybe i was loving the view from up there, or maybe it was the MSG saturation but i managed to stay out in the cold for about 30 minutes and make some long-exposures of the skyline. The flare at the bottom of the frame is the warehouse lights across the street that i couldn’t get rid of (either that or the giant cell phone antennas that were 10 feet from my camera fogged my film a bit).

This picture of the skyline looks similar in size to the San Francisco downtown skyline from Treasure Island; then you realize that a) this is one small small small section of the city skyline – had it been 7 years ago the twin towers would be standing right in the dead-center of this frame, this is just that one tip of the city, and b) every building in this picture is 3x (or so) taller than the tallest ones in downtown San Francisco. Our entire downtown is like getting out and the wrong subway stop in New York.

Anyway – more to come..