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Ice fog consists of fine ice crystals suspended in the air. It only forms under specific conditions; the humidity has to be near 100% as the air temperature drops to well below 0 °C (32 °F). The morning of this image, Rolling Prairie, IN was covered with an intense Ice Fog which covered the trees everywhere with crystals.

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I’m pleased to announce that the images created at the Orfanato Niños de Cristo for the Orphaned Starfish Foundation won a Silver at the 2010 W3 awards for excellence in photography.

The OSF is a great cause.  I encourage you to go their site, read the stories of the children and help in any way you can – we raise educational funds for 20 orphanages in 10 countries throughout Latin America and Africa.

Thanks to my cohorts at the UXTestKitchen for all their hard work on the website and this project.

Forbidden Spaces: WTC Construction

On the night of 9/11 this year I went down to ground zero to try and get a different angle on the memorial tribute.

Around 1:30am, I was the only person in the neighborhood except for police and a skeleton crew of construction workers. I struck up a conversation with a passing worker, asking about the specks of what looked like huge glitter in the beams of light (which turned out to be thousands of birds who deviated from their natural migratory patterns).

I spent about half an hour talking with my new friend about many things New York, and people we knew who were lost in the towers almost a decade ago; at which point he turned to me and said, “Would you like a tour of the site?”

The next hour or so I was treated to a clandestine perspective of the construction that very few get to see. This is my favorite image from my time inside the site.

(image is shot from the base of what used to be Tower 2, looking 4 floors underground into the sub-structure construction – The tribute lights are actually 2 blocks south of the site this year because they can’t put them on the actual site – due to construction).

At the request of the nameless worker who gave me the tour, I waited a month to publish the image.

Ground Zero construction site

The annual tribute to 9/11 taken from the foot of the construction site of the new World Trade Center. The building to the right is the ongoing construction of Building 1 (the Freedom Tower), after many year of delays, now built up to 38 floors.

Keller Hotel (abandoned) - Greenwich Village, NYC

Built in 1897, and designed by Julius Munckwitz, The Keller hotel was a seaman’s hotel built in the Renaissance Revival style near the transatlantic cruise docks on the Hudson River. It Provided food for immigrants at Ellis Island, and later after the decline of he maritime industry was a flophouse for out-of-work sailors.

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The fireworks over Manhattan never disappoint…  I’ve posted a larger gallery this year – it may be overkill, but for those of you who didn’t get to see the display can enjoy highlights here.

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Electrical Storm over Ft. Lauderdale

Miami, Florida

Junior's Restaurant - Brooklyn, NY

Since the demise of Polaroid, I’ve been looking for solutions to take the place of my beloved SX-70.

The new Polaroid compatible film from The Impossible Project will be available soon, but in the interim,  the shakeitphoto app on my iphone has been a fun substitute.  Now If I could only get it to work with my strobes…