Visiting Ellis Island was a great history lesson. I don’t know that I have any direct ancestors who passed through here — so many families do. At first, I was working on editing the whole picture. Then I zoomed in to the torch for some reason and realized I wanted to focus on that. There’sContinue reading “Liberty’s Torch”
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Macy’s Parade – Lady Liberty’s Torch
Spreading her light and liberty throughout the parade route! Hey there, sailors! By the way, everyone we were standing around was nice. Maybe they were all tourists, but everyone kind of let everyone be. I love the grittier look for urban photography. I cropped again to straighten and increased the contrast and clarity. Doing thatContinue reading “Macy’s Parade – Lady Liberty’s Torch”
Lady Liberty
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; herContinue reading “Lady Liberty”
My favorite
Moving on to week 3 of 2012! This week’s theme for the LensProToGo Project 52 is about favorites. When I took these pictures I thought the theme was about a generic favorite. New York City has quickly become one of my favorites. I got this frame at the Statue of Liberty gift shop. It’s madeContinue reading “My favorite”
Not So SAHM 