Remembering Jenny - Jenny and Joanne - 2006 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (Sat 28 & Sun 29 Oct 2006)

Joanne and Jenny - 2006 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (*) - Windsor (Sat 28 Oct 2006) Joanne and Jenny - 2006 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (*) - Windsor (Sat 28 Oct 2006) Joanne and Jenny - 2006 Hawkesbury Canoe Classic (*) - Brooklyn (Sun 29 Oct 2006)
Jenny wrote this about her 2006 HCC (*):

It was such a great experience under a sky filled with thousands of stars.

It is something that we will be able to look back on for the rest of our lives.

Last Saturday night Joanne and I participated In the 2012 HCC with Robyn, Petr and Graeme in Team Shinjuku. Another fantastic experience and we remembered you Jenny.

I will try to write something up on this years event, once I get some photos sorted. It will be hard to find the words to adequately describe the experience - I am still trying to write up our 2010 HCC experience.

Brooklyn Bridge - Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Brooklyn Bridge - Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Intersection (5 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Intersection / Blue and Black (5 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
The light was magnificent under the less well known Manhattan Bridge. I stayed here a few minutes and photographed a few people as they passed the framed mural titled Intersectionb (*).

Intersection (4 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Intersection (4 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
The light was magnificent Down Under the Manhattan Bridge. I stayed here a few minutes and photographed a few people as they passed the framed mural titled Intersectionb (*).

Intersection (3 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Intersection / Red (3 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
The light was magnificent Down Under the Manhattan Bridge. I stayed here a few minutes and photographed a few people as they passed the framed mural titled Intersection (*).

Intersection (2 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Intersection / Orange (2 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
The light was magnificent Down Under the Manhattan Bridge. I stayed here a few minutes and photographed a few people as they passed the framed mural titled Intersection (*).

Manhattan Bridge (2 of 2) - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Manhattan Bridge - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
The Empire State Building is beautifully lit by the late summer afternoon sun. The large and iconic building becomes the tiny figure in the landscape and the magnificent old bridge takes centre stage, as it justly deserves.

Manhattan Bridge (1 of 2) - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Fri 12 Aug 2011)

Manhattan Bridge (1 of 2) - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Fri 12 Aug 2011)
It might be a boring midday photo with not too much interest. I like it because of the depth of the photo ...

Brooklyn Bridge on ramp foreground, Dumbo and East River middle ground, Manhattan Bridge background and the Empire State Building distant background.

... and the zig-zagging nature of the key elements that lead you through the photo. And besides some weathered yellow and a little bit of orange never goes astray.

Intersection (1 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Intersection (*) (1 of 5) - Manhattan Bridge - Dumbo / Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
The light was magnificent under the less well known Manhattan Bridge. I stayed here a few minutes and photographed a few people as they passed the framed mural.

A little Googling (*) reveals some details of the Mural titled Intersection:

• Front Street Gets New Mural - 21 Jun 2011 (*)
  
• http://intersection-mural.tumblr.com/ (*)

The creators indicate (*):

The mural was designed with site-specific ideas in mind: lines of seven colors meet corrugated vertical bars of the fence behind it. Our concept mimics and bends these lines, creating a colorful graphic symbolizing the constant movement of DUMBO. The design is an abstracted interpretation of intersecting train tracks and the familiar New York City subway map.

The use of vivid colors against the urban backdrop of grays and browns is intended to brighten the landscape and produce a visceral and emotional reaction, while referencing the cross-sections of cultures and people who view it.

From the Wikipedia page Dumbo, Brooklyn (*), Dumbo refers to:

Dumbo, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, is a neighborhood in the New York City, New York, borough of Brooklyn.

It encompasses two sections: one located between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, which connect Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River, and another that continues east from the Manhattan Bridge to the Vinegar Hill area.

The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2.

Jerry Seinfeld once referred to Dumbo on a late-night talk show appearance, joking that it stands for "Down Under Manhattan Bridge," but that New Yorkers arbitrarily added the "O" at the end because they did not want to have a neighborhood called "Dumb."

Learnt about this just now when searching for the name of the large framed Mural on the fence. Learn something everyday.

Picasa Contact Sheets - East Village / Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011 pm)

Picasa Contact Sheets (1 of 6) - East Village / Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
Picasa Contact Sheets (2 of 6) - East Village / Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
Picasa Contact Sheets (3 of 5) - East Village / Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
Picasa Contact Sheets (4 of 6) - East Village / Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
Picasa Contact Sheets (5 of 6) - East Village / Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
Picasa Contact Sheets (6 of 6) - East Village / Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
187 Photos - all in an afternoons wanderings.

Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Past, Present and Future - Winston Churchill

Saw this Winston Churchilll Quote at the Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston last Monday.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

Graffiti - Manhattan Bridge / Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge - Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge - Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
We can see the eastern support of the Manhattan Bridge and the dark underside of the Brooklyn Bridge in the top half.

Water - East River - Brooklyn Park (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

East River - Brooklyn Bridge Park (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
Looking towards Lower Manhattan towards where the Twin Towers once stood.

Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn (Wed 17 Aug 2011)

Street Band - 1990 New York City Marathon - Brooklyn (Sun 04 Nov 1990)

Street Band - 1990 New York City Marathon - Brooklyn (Sun 04 Nov 1990)
When I ran the New York City Marathon in Nov 1990, I borrowed Tim's small point and shoot film camera (no commercial accessible digital cameras back then) for the trip and ran with it during the Marathon.

This is my favourite photo from the run - I heard and saw the band playing on the side walk, so I just pulled over for a moment and snapped this shot.

You can see the Northern World Trade Centre Tower in the distance on the left of the photo - it is from there I took this photo of the Brooklyn Bridge in Oct 1988.

I love the one lone audience member - the guy in the Blue Shirt. Also the car with the boot/'trunk' open.

Brooklyn Bridge - World Trade Center / Manhattan (Oct 1988)

Brooklyn Bridge - World Trade Center / Manhattan (Oct 1988)
Travel. Do not get stuck in one place. [..]
Whatever you do, walk over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ken Burns (2004 Yale Commencement Speech)


In 1988, at the age of 27, I took my first overseas trip - a seven week holiday to the USA from late September to early November 1988 - I remember flying back into Tamworth on Melbourne Cup day - we were in flight when the Captain announced the result of the race.

Spent most of my time in New York and Boston where I stayed with friends. I also took a weekend trip to Chicago from New York. On my return I spent a few days in Los Angeles and a few days in Sydney at Alexandria.

Recently found the above photo after this recent post

City of Blinding Lights - U2 - Live - Brooklyn Bridge - 22 Nov 2004 (youtube)

I can remember this evening visit to the Northern Tower of the World Trade Center. It was a still night and I was able to walk out onto and around the exposed and elevated viewing platform at the top of the Tower. It is there that I took this photo of the Brooklyn Bridge (the closer one, the next one along is the Manhattan Bridge), which a few days earlier I had walked across.

I will try to find the photos of the walk across the Brooklyn Bridge - they are somewhere at Kirrawee. I pulled out the above photo shortly after the Tower's were lost and just accidently stumbled across them in one of the desk drawers recently.

Where The Street Have No Name - U2 - Rattle and Hum

Where the Streets Have No Name by U2 from Rattle and Hum
Remember seeing the Rattle and Hum Movie with my younger Brother, Tim, in 1988. This song (Where the Streets Have No Name) stood out for me, both musically and visually (the silhouette effects). When I would visit him in Canberra, over the following years, I would ofter hear Tim play this song as he got ready for work (I like the way this song builds in energy over its duration). For these reasons, in part, I would decide to play this during his Funeral in March 2005 as we reflected over his life, after I had asked his Family and Friend's to forgive him for what he had done to himself (and all those that loved him) and at the same time try to understand his silent suffering.

When I ran the New York City Marathon in Nov 1990, I borrowed Tim's small point and shoot film camera (no commercial accessible digital cameras back then) for the trip and ran with it during the Marathon. This is my favourite photo from the run - I heard and saw the band playing on the side walk (you can see the Northern World Trade Centre Building in the distance on the left of the photo), just pulled over for a moment and snapped this shot. I love the one lone audience member - the guy in the Blue Shirt. Also the car with the boot/'trunk' open.

Street Band - 1990 New York City Marathon - Sun 04 Nov 1990