PS 89 Crossing Guard

On a school day at the right time in the morning streams of young children children cross this busy intersection towards PS 89. It is a common urban sight to see kids heading to school in the morning. This school is uncommon though. Almost fourteen years ago it was one of closest schools to ground zero. It bears the following plaque:

"On September 11 2001 our beloved and brave children witnessed the best and worst in humanity. We honor the heroic and compassionate principals, teachers, and staff of PS 89 and IS 89 who brought them to safety, of both body and spirit."

It's so easy to forget the pain that exists within so many residents of this city. I'm thankful for the reminder, despite wishing I didn't need to be reminded.

New York City

This image seems to express a lot of our feelings about New York and the experiences we had. Amid the sights and sounds of the city are smells colours, noises, tastes, emotions and many other varied sensory experiences that can't always be captured on camera. We saw wealth and we saw poverty. We saw style and substance, and we saw each one without the other. We each loved New York for different reasons and we both found ourselves getting pissed off with the little idiosyncrasies of place. You can love something and still accept its flaws. And if I'm not overstepping my bounds, I guess we feel that way about each other.

Trust Your Vision.

A lot of the images I will be posting for the next little while will be from a trip my wife and I went on around the world. We left Australia in December (on the day of the Lindt Café Siege) and arrived home late January. We managed to visit New York, Edinburgh, London, Paris, Florence, and Rome. 

This is an outstanding mural I saw in Brooklyn. It makes sense to start with this image. After all, New York was our first stop. This mural is by an artist called Gilf! and you can read more about it here.

I don't know where this blog will be going specifically, but generally I will be writing about photography, travel, religion, and will possibly meander my way into doing some fiction writing along the way. 

Trust your vision. I hope you like what you see.