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High Line

This photo is posted first to grab your attention. Sex sells, even on photography blogs.

High Line

The High Line had just opened when I visited it on my birthday in 2009, and New Yorkers were busy exploring it before the tourists found out about it.

High Line

Objects just lined up this way of their own accord.

High Line

Very New York – a garden and razor wire.

High Line

A New Yorker’s lawn furniture.

The High Line

Only in New York.

High Line

The chaise longue, High Line style.

Monet Garden

The NY Botanical Garden has recreated Monet’s garden at Giverney. The red flowers and the green globe on the left are Papaver somniferum – the opium poppy.

New York Botanical Garden

Tangier

This is a Berber woman selling vegetables that she has brought down from the mountains to the market in Tangier. I held my camera down next to my side at hip level and pressed the shutter button to get the shot. The exposure was a guess. Sometimes I miss my Leica rangefinder camera and black and white film very much.