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Eternity: a moment standing still forever…

by Sandeep Thomas
Manhattan over the poles of Old Pier 1
9/11/20129/11/2012, 7:45 PM (32 minutes after sunset)
NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0
12.0 mm (18 mm full-frame)f/8.0 6 s100

  • James Montgomery.

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I dusted off this one from my old archives, it was taken while I was living in mighty new York city working at Wall St. I think this was the 11 year memory of 9/11 and there was news going around that they were going to stop the tribute in light after this last time.

So I got out to Brooklyn Bridge Park in the afternoon to get a good shot of the NY skyline and hopefully some sunset colors. And I was not disappointed, the sunset sky was excellent even without the customary clouds. As soon as I was at the location I was obsessed with the wooden pillars sticking out from the water and I wanted to get them as foreground interest for this shot.

I had posted earlier a shot using my big stopper but it didn’t have the lights. This one was taken when the tribute in light display came on, but I didn’t had time to use the big stopper so I used a 3 stop ND filter to slow the water down and a 2 stop ND grad for the sky. I have to go through my old archives a little bit more carefully to see if have any more good shots that missed my initial scan.