Producing a solo work of art that beautifies your home can leave you with a wonderful daily reminder of your abilities. I learned this after arranging photos I’d taken over my couch to create an esthetically pleasing corner of my humble abode.
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A panoramic of the Brooklyn Bridge, Lower Manhattan and Jane’s Carousel in Empire Fulton Ferry Park that edges the East River. I snapped this shot from a new vantage point atop a terrace of the Empire Stores.
Brooklyn Bridge Perspectives: New, Old and Better
Do I revisit a place or should I explore somewhere new? My decision-making in answer to this question about my next photo shoot is made easier when I remember that the old can also be new.
Read MoreMidtown Views are Brooklyn Bridge’s Other Allure
Don’t let the Brooklyn Bridge or her many admirers fool you. There’s more to the 133-year-old structure than just her Gothic-style towers and web of steel cables.
Read MoreThe Brooklyn Trio
It is because I can capture images as described above and featured here that I make regular trips to the exciting area I call the Trio of Brooklyn: the bridge, promenade and park.
Read MoreBrooklyn Bridge Walk Puts the Spiritual in Secularism
What is a secularist to do when he needs a certain spiritual lift? Some climb to mountain tops; I walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
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A vista of the the Midtown skyline and Queensboro Bridge as seen from Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Photographer's Travels Through Brooklyn-Queens
I had a mission on a recent Saturday. I wanted to spend the entire day driving along the waterfronts in northern Brooklyn and Queens to take photographs of Manhattan’s skyline from new vantage points.
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The southern tip of Manhattan, as seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Iconic Views from Brooklyn Bridge Park
It is an ideal spot to take in many New York icons. Brooklyn Bridge Park, an 85-acre area that spans about a mile along the East River waterfront of Brooklyn Heights, particularly the revitalized Pier 1.
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A couple walk along the beach in Long Beach NY as an airliner heads in for a landing at nearby JFK AIrport. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)