Liberty: Such a Little Thing
Linus Gelber
When you stand in her shadow, Lady Liberty towers over New York Harbor and dominates the local skyline. Stand back a bit further and take in the harbor as a busy port, and she is a tiny moment in the swirl of commerce - it's easy to forget she's there. As so many have done, these shabby days. It's sleight of hand, sort of.
I'm on my way to Staten Island for my traditional haircut with Danielle, and the day fills to bursting with our long-awaited spring. There's a sharp enough breeze on the ferry, but on land it noses up over 70° and the sun pours down like honey (on our lady of the harbor, and elsewhere too).
Two years ago - 104 weeks - the Utata photo group got all tribal, as we're wont to do, and headed out of a Thursday to take some pictures of whatever happened to be in our way. Flush with imagination, we called this The Thursday Walk. With its focus on walking and seeing and finding, and its total lack of rules - even "Thursday" is loosely defined, and for a time I was an inveterate Friday Thursday walker - the Thursday Walk has been a pleasure, an inspiration, a source of water when the well is dry, and sometimes a pain in the ass.
I haven't done it every week, but I've done it when the spirit moved me, and over the two years some of my best work has come out of my Thursdays. You can see more of my Thursday Walk images here on Flickr, and see what else the group got up to on the Utata site for this anniversary Thursday. You know what they say: Carpe Thursday.
They do. They say that all the time. It's Latin. Don't worry about it.
This photo has been spotted as high as #138 in the Flickr daily Interestingness charts.
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