For this week’s photo challenge BEYOND I’ve chosen a shot made from heli over Manhattan, Twin Towers still standing …
photo by frizztext, click on the picture, to enter my galleries on flickr
P.S.:
we’ve been there 1997 – the things changed so much since then…
– it was hard to get a helicopter ride, not only to get the tickets, the whole waiting room was filled up with a crowd having tickets (at least 100 persons, I think): but only 4 persons each flight! So my wife had to look very deep in the eyes of the door dragon to come through (I was her quick shadow); though the weather was foggy we had much fun… I heard after September eleven it is forbidden to fly directly over the top of the skyscrapers?
related: Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
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I can see the new tower from where I am sitting now. Your beautiful photo made me sad
A really good photo Frizz. Beyond in this photo has so much more meaning. It also evoked sadness
Awesome photo!
a different view of Manhattan… it is not common between the similar photos
This photo is what New York looks like in my memory! Superb.
thanks for “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” …
A great photo of times past. Lots of memories…it looks like I remember it as a child, when I had dinner in the restaurant Windows on the World in the early 1980s.
hi Tricia,
NYC: with a photograph of a city-scape
you can see into the shocking BEYOND
of (history, present and future of) terrorism …
So true and a perfect example of the almost timeless power of a photograph. So much can be conveyed without a single word…
Beautiful photo. I was here to watch the towers being built in the 70s, and then sadly to see them fall as well.
Like you, I once took an amazing sea plane ride right through the middle of Manhattan. Amazing. And you are right – those rides are now prohibited.
Flying around Manhattan is one of my best memories from NYC.
beyond = what always dominates are the good memories…
OMG!!!
…. wonderful
kiss mister Frizz
vento
Beautiful photo (deserving of a framing) Beautiful city but them I’m bias since I was born there!
“my intention was to
photograph a soldier.
~
…however the eye is then drawn
to the colorful crowds…”
Reblogged this on no1jenn.
Books and reblogs transport us beyond the here & now
Beautiful captured…
“The answers and the experiences
lies beyond the surface and facades…”
Agree…
the limits of photography – we need some writers …
The days where photography was the pure truth are gone for ever…
we can’t trust even videos no more:
- and mice can’t trust cats… ‘lol’
and sometimes translators not their own translations – never forget, as Kierkegaard (and Socrates) said, to have the doubt in focus …
There was once laughed a bit at german language dubbing of movies and TV instead of translating texting – they forgot that there were and are tons of faults in the subtitles in their own countries…
bad job to translate movies – wrong habit in Germany – I prefer the Dutch version: send the original versions only …
I like your composition, Frizz. The bridge over the river draws me in, and then my eye keeps exploring the city, especially framed by the twin towers and the Empire State Building.
Love the pic Frizz and WHY can’t they build those towers EXACTLY as they were??
they didn’t have the courage,
maybe they had the anxiety,
that terrorists would try to destroy
the same buildings again?
Some architects had the proposal
only to build very flat buildings
in the future everywhere…
P.S.:
I like your nice beyond-version:
“future and beyond…”!
Thank you Frizz- I know there was fear but it could happen anyway! It’s too bad .
Another fantastic picture, as usual… Love your ways to ‘translate’ the photo challenges into something so deep, so emotional… It does leave us thinking.. ‘beyond’… ‘what it…’ memories… a powerful tool! Congrats on the beautiful photo!
your quotation:
“To have a second language
is to possess a second soul”
~
my reply:
for sure, but maybe every people we meet
= like discovering a new language too!
Beautiful shot. Thank you for the memory.
Beautiful!
perfection!
Not only do you have the beautiful photo but you got the helicopter ride which sadly is also something of the past too.
A memory of the towers greatly captured in the background.
amazing shot frizz!!!
A stunning and poignant shot Frizz!
Frizz,
You are also making me want to go to my photo album. As others have mentioned, I took a small plane ride around NY many years ago. It didn’t occur to me until I viewed this post and read the comments that it can’t be done anymore!
so please search in your old album
- and send a link after scanning …
Great view of “beyond.”
I pinned the photo of NYC from the Heli on my “Cityscape Photography” board on Pinterest http://pinterest.com/gaylealstrom/cityscape-photography/. I hope you don’t mind.
hi Gayle, thanks for reblogging on pinterest;
just found your new WTC architecture on your flickr.com photo pool:
compare my old version:
title=”lost lightness” by Frizztext, on Flickr
A great photo. I am called to mind also an incident when a helicopter tour downed in the harbour, just weeks before some lady friends of mine were visiting on a birthday treat. I went to the Algarve a short while later and discovered that the lady who was killed was related to people in my walking group over there. Strange old world, isn’t it?
Simply put, I admire your work(s). This photo is very engaging. Thank you for the challenge.
Those were the days.
Great pic, ft.
It is still a great shot. sad event…
Oh, psyched. Love your site, love your eye. Brilliant.