During our last trip to NYC (last fall), MJ and I visited the Vessel and the High Line. While we walked the High Line, I captured this photo of the Vessel with the Empire State Building in the background. It was interesting to see it from a distance after being inside it a few minutes before hand. There was also this weird reflection of the sun off the building behind it that caused an odd bright contrasting space towards the top of the Vessel.
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I don’t know about you, but my life has been very busy over the last couple of years. And know it has gotten worse lately, for the obvious reasons. I love photography and sharing my photos/thoughts with you on this blog. But it can be tough at times to keep this updated. With that said, here is a photo for you and a very short narrative.
This is another photo from the Vessel in the Hudson Yards area of Manhattan. This is from the inside looking up.
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As you may already know, due to MJ’s FB post, we’ve been in NYC the last couple of days. This was one of our first stops upon arriving in the Manhattan. We explored this cool structure that is part art and part observation deck in the newly redeveloped Hudson Yards.
A few facts about this structure: It rises 16 stories and consists of 154 flights of stairs in a honeycomb pattern. There are 2,500 steps and 80 landings for visitors to climb. The final cost was near $200 million to build and is currently going by the title of Vessel TKA. TKA stands for Temporarily Known As because they don’t have a permanent name for it yet. The owners have a website dedicated to the public helping with the final name. The Vessel opened in March 2019.
As you can probably guess, I took a ton of photos from all angles….inside, outside, down low, up high, etc…
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Here is another photo from the Washington D.C. area. We had dinner in this area with our good friend, Nick. Toward the end of dinner, I went off and captured a few photos of this cool location. This is the pedestrian bridge along the Anacostia River.
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We just got back from a wonderful trip to Washington DC. I’ve been to D.C. probably 30 plus times in the past, but I’ve never had a chance to see any of the museums. So, we set some time aside to visit some of the Smithsonian museums. We got to the Natural History, Gallery of Arts and the Air/Space museums. I have to say, they are an amazing resource for our country….and they’re free! We also went to the Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, Washington National Cathedral, JFK memorial, Vietnam memorial, etc……. Just fun….oh and the weather was hot!!!
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