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![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1636 W: 16 N: 1867]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-s-g.gif) (5327) | I have been saving this photograph of the Manhattan Skyline taken from across the East River from Brooklyn (for my first Trek Earth Anniversary) for some time now. This is a very special photograph and one that has very little to do with photographic equipment and technique and everything to do with the great people that we meet on the Trek Earth forum. I have been corresponding and sharing critiques with Jorge Cadamartori (JorgeCK) (see the WS photo of Jorge) for most of my Trek Earth experience. He lives on Long Island and I told him late last Spring that my wife and I were going to spend a few days in the Big Apple in Early June of 2007 and he graciously offered to show us around the city. I took him up on his offer and he was a wonderful host and took us to out of the way places that would have been very difficult for us to find out about much less to navigate. This special spot of Jorge’s is in an old Brooklyn neighborhood which has become renovated and gentrified. He took us out to dine at an excellent restaurant and then we shot photos from this vantage point for well over an hour. Later he drove us around Queens and over the Queensboro bridge. During our final day in NYC, he also took us out to eat at an excellent Russian pizzaria in Queens before he dropped us off at the La Guardia airport. Thank you very much, Jorge, for your generous hospitality. We enjoyed your company and your friendship very much. You are the perfect example of how we Trek Earth members can help each other out when we travel and to develop friendships in the process.
This is my first anniversary post. I joined Trek Earth upon my friend and former co-worker, John Munro’s advice in 2005, but I didn’t post my first image until March 10, 2007. To say that I have learned a lot about travel, people and photo techniques would be a vast understatement. I have learned volumes, not to mention meeting some very interesting and talented people. Photography is just a tool to help us understand the world around us and is not an end in itself, in my opinion. By the way the Moon is accompanied by Venus in the Manhattan sky in this photo. |
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