Artist Danh Vo’s new exhibition We The People is on view now from the Public Art Fund at the Brooklyn Bridge Park and City Hall Park.  Vo has recreated full scale replicas of the Statue of Liberty in individual segments that are not intended to be pieced together and are on view throughout the two parks.  Read more about the exhibition: https://www.publicartfund.org/view/exhibitions/6042_danh_vo_we_the_people

The opening last week was in the perfect location on a hill on Pier 3 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, with the central piece being a fragment of Lady Liberty’s sleeve overlooking the Manhattan skyline and many sites including the Statue of Liberty herself in whole. And it took place on a perfect evening after morning showers and some brief sun had evolved into a dreamy fog settling over Manhattan.

Since I can’t bombard Instagram with more than a photo or 2, I’ve included some of my favorite cell phone highlights from the evening ~ featuring the sleeve with bridges and boats and more…

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sleeve with pier & Manhattan skyline views:

sleeve with the Statue of Liberty:

sleeve with the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges:

detail of sleeve with the Brooklyn Bridge:

sleeve with sailboat:

disappearing Manhattan skyline in the fog:

For the past few years, I’ve spent a few days each spring photographing the staff and volunteers at Friends of the High Line during their month-long Spring Cutback.  This is the time when the winter grasses and seed heads are trimmed back plant-by-plant to make way for new spring growth.  You can visit the High Line blog’s Spring Cutback updates to see many fun photos and read more information, but it’s always incredible to see how much work can be done each day on small sections of the High Line.  So this year, I decided to try a new way of showing one day’s work - – -

What i love most about snow in the city is the blanket of quiet that comes with it.

The morning after winter storm Hercules, i walked up to Prospect Park and along the Greenwood Cemetery. In Prospect Park, if you can get there before most of the sledders hit the hills, it is just the dog owners and cross country skiers.

here are some quiet photos from my walk.

Instagram = fleeting photos;

I have fallen hard for Instagram ~ in a photographer’s world of large photo files and overshooting and working with tons of photos every day, it’s allowed me a place to quickly document the small moments in a day that give me pause. And in New York, those moments happen all the time.

But not many people these days have the patience to go through a person’s entire feed of photos – you discover someone on Instagram and you probably scroll through a few pages of their most recent photos. Someone’s beautiful photo taken a year ago stays hidden to most. So there is a sense of impermanence.  And one thing that often gets lost in the speed of the mobile photography — letting a photo stay with you, re-visiting that photo that moved you to understand why you clicked ♡like, or to take a photo of that moment.

The city, too, is full of fleeting moments – fast paced with movements and a rhythm that creates a symphony all around us.

Here, a page of some city moments to keep re-visiting.