Crossing History | 08:57PM Jun 25, 2008
My girlfriend is awesome.
Why you ask? Well, allow me to explain. This summer our fair Elizabeth is participating in a summer internship with UBS in Stamford, Connecticut. Pretty cool huh? Well, everything except the fact that the only housing UBS had available was in the financial district of Manhattan…a cool hour and half commute via subway and train away from Stamford. Due to this tedious commute she must rise and shine everyday at roughly 5 in the morning to make it in on time.
Why is any of this relevant to this image? Well, all of you who get up early for work all week should appreciate this, when the weekend comes nothing short of an act of congress can get Liz out of bed before 9. However, despite the lack of legislation this image was captured at roughly 4:25 A.M. and you’ll never guess who was standing right next to me when I snapped the shutter.
One of the New York landmarks I have always wanted to photograph, the Brooklyn Bridge was just too good to pass up being only a few minutes walk from Liz’s summer housing.
Shooting this epic span, I ran into one of the most challenging problems any photographer faces when trying to take images in a city as photographed as New York. How the hell are you supposed to find a unique angle on a granite suspension bridge, which has been attracting lenses from all over the world for a little over a century?
Uh…lie down in the bike path and get verbally accosted by packs of hardened New York cyclists at 4:30 in the morning. What a way to start the day! Take that Folgers!
Why you ask? Well, allow me to explain. This summer our fair Elizabeth is participating in a summer internship with UBS in Stamford, Connecticut. Pretty cool huh? Well, everything except the fact that the only housing UBS had available was in the financial district of Manhattan…a cool hour and half commute via subway and train away from Stamford. Due to this tedious commute she must rise and shine everyday at roughly 5 in the morning to make it in on time.
Why is any of this relevant to this image? Well, all of you who get up early for work all week should appreciate this, when the weekend comes nothing short of an act of congress can get Liz out of bed before 9. However, despite the lack of legislation this image was captured at roughly 4:25 A.M. and you’ll never guess who was standing right next to me when I snapped the shutter.
One of the New York landmarks I have always wanted to photograph, the Brooklyn Bridge was just too good to pass up being only a few minutes walk from Liz’s summer housing.
Shooting this epic span, I ran into one of the most challenging problems any photographer faces when trying to take images in a city as photographed as New York. How the hell are you supposed to find a unique angle on a granite suspension bridge, which has been attracting lenses from all over the world for a little over a century?
Uh…lie down in the bike path and get verbally accosted by packs of hardened New York cyclists at 4:30 in the morning. What a way to start the day! Take that Folgers!
