Between Sea and Sky Landscapes of Long Island’s North Fork by Jake Rajs
Betweeen Sea and Sky Landscapes of Long Island's North Fork by Jake Rajs, essay by Jesse Browner, Afterward by Joshua Y. Horton
Between Sea and Sky Landscapes of Long Island’s North Fork
A Note From The Photographer Jake Rajs
Three years ago, at work on a book about the Atlantic Ocean, I found myself on the North Fork. I was excited by the light, the land, and the sea. Photographing a sunset on the Sound and experiencing the afterglow was akin to watching nature create a Mark Rothko painting: bands of light in red, orange, purple, and yellow. Then I discovered that Rothko indeed lived on the North Fork; in fact, he is buried here. Did the North Fork light influence him too?
Each book has its own story. Certainly the backbone of any book on the North Fork is the heritage of farming and fishing. The local farmers and fishermen are grateful for the abundant harvest from the soil and water, and proud of their ability to band together into a community. They shared with me their own sense of this place, from gardens to historic farmsteads, to a whale-shaped rock. I was grateful for this opportunity to see a balance between humanity and the environment, a balance we are so often lacking.
Like so many before me, I have come under the spell of the atmosphere and the life of the East End. For a photographer drawn to the great works of nature and of humankind, the North Fork has an abundance of natural sights: the farmer on his tractor, the clammers in the water, the fishermen leaving the dock. Because this area retains a sense of openness, these things are accessible and without pretense. Here, I can see.
The North Fork retains its rural quality; time is measured by what the farmers are doing or what fish are running. A bud on a grapevine and tender sweet stalks of asparagus announce spring. High summer is filled with corn, peaches, and tomatoes. Netting means fall, and with luck a bountiful harvest of apples, pumpkins, grapes, and root vegetables. Trucks full of fencing herald the imminent arrival of snow. To be here is to find a harmonious rhythm shared by humankind and nature, a dance with the earth and a dance with the sea.
When I photograph a landscape, I try to capture the miracle that there is nothing more beautiful and more perfect then what is created by nature. The natural world has a soothing yet inspiring influence on our spirits, reminding us to appreciate each day. As we watch a sunset or a moonrise, a wave breaking or a leaf spinning, we repossess our souls and we believe in life. We open ourselves up to celebrate the beauty that nature creates, knowing that the moment, though never to be repeated, is timeless.
Jake Rajs
Modern Home, 733 Daniels Lane, designed by Charles Gwathmey, Sagaponack, New York
Modern Home, 733 Daniels Lane, designed by Charles Gwathmey, Sagaponack, New York
Modern Home, 733 Daniels Lane, designed by Charles Gwathmey, Sagaponack, New York,
Was very happy to photograph this Gwathmey House. He was one of America’s best modern architects. It was one of the most beautiful homes I have photographed. It was perfectly conceptually and physically put together. The geometry, light, forms and quality of the materials were outstanding.
Talking about the homes he designed: “They’re as viable and as critical to the history of architecture as any other building,” he told PBS interviewer Charlie Rose in 2000. The best homes, he said, “have a spirituality which is unforgettable. In other words, if you went to any of those buildings, you’d remember them for your life.”
Modern Home, 733 Daniels Lane, designed by Charles Gwathmey, Sagaponack, New YorkModern Home, 733 Daniels Lane, designed by Charles Gwathmey, Sagaponack, New York
Snowy Road to My Studio in Catskill Mountains, New York, picture of the day
Snow Covered Driveway, in Catskill Park, Mt Tremper, New York
This is a picture of a road to a studio that was a cabin I had in the Catskill Mountains. There were days that the only way in was to snow shoe. One had the peace to focus on creating without distractions. This ultimately led to a book on the Hudson River.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. Paul Cezanne
Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne
I have sworn to die painting. Paul Cezanne
New York, South Fork, Quogue, wave curl
New York, South Fork, Quogue, wave curl
Wave Curl, Quogue, NY,
I had driven about an hour to get to the beach at sunrise. It was a clear day. The waves were rolling in beautifully. I shot about 500 photos to get the perfect moment when the wave feels like a glass petal.
Blue Sparkle, Atlantic Ocean, Montauk, New York, Long Island, South Fork
Blue Sparkle, Atlantic Ocean, Montauk New York, , Long Island, South Fork
Blue Sparkle, Atlantic Ocean, Montauk, 2004
I was high on the bluffs on the Eastern most spot In Long Island looking out at the vast expanse of the ocean, It was late morning the sky and the ocean where this wonderful blue. The sun created these wonderful sparkles on the water. On a wall it feels like a window out into the ocean.
Watching the movement of waves, were does one end and one begin, how one shape fades into another shape. The bright silver sparkles dancing along the surface. Jake Rajs
Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems. Winslow Homer
Playing volleyball, Ponquogue Beach, Hampton Bays, NY
Playing volleyball, Ponquogue Beach, Hampton Bays, NY.
Ponquogue Beach, Hampton Bays, New York, South Fork, Long Island
This is a composite of 2 pictures, shot over the span of 45 minutes. One of the volleyball players and one of the family walking with the stripped beach towels. The luminous lighting and harmony of the repetitive lines of the snow fence, blue beach towels and the volleyball players and net, at the beach moved me. JR
Manhattan An Island In Focus book by Jake Rajs
Manhattan an Island In Focus book by Jake Rajs
Manhattan an Island in Focus introduction
Manhattan is a romance between the dreams of its people and their reality. As a photographer I try to capture those special visual moments when the dream becomes a real.
My earliest memory of the city is the immigrant’s introduction to the Promised Land. I was eight years old. My family had spent two weeks on the ship from Israel, and as we pulled into New York Harbor at night, everyone looked up at the Statue of Liberty and began to cry. I was to young to understand what was happening, but I cried too, and that emotion always returns when I see her.
I was trained as a painter and sculptor, but when I picked up a camera and shot that first roll of film, I experienced a sense of freedom, the freedom to leave the studio and make the world my subject. I moved to Manhattan in the early 1970s. Ever since then I have known that I would someday make this book. It is the ultimate challenge for a photographer, since Manhattan is probably the world’s most-photographed city.
Manhattan intrigues me so much that I can shoot nearly every day, waiting for that sudden instant when the sun’s rays rebound off a skyscraper or a bridge. For the last ten years I have watched the city’s seasons change, always finding a new design, a new symbol, or some new image that tells a story about the greatest city in the world.
The city has moods affected by the times of year and the times of day. In the winter, the sun sets below the Statue of Liberty, but by summertime it goes down above Central Park. Each day the light is different, as the sun takes up its new position. It may rise between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, for example, only three days a year, so I have to plan from one year to the next in order to be ready for particular shots.
The experience of photographing Manhattan is so overwhelming that time seems to stop. When the hostages were freed from Iran in 1981 and New York gave them a ticker-tape parade, I got a press pass and found a good vantage point on the ledge of high above Broadway. All of the sudden I could hear the roar of the crowd. The roar began to build, then far below the parade began to approach. I was mesmerized. The next thing that I knew I was hanging over the ledge, with my assistant holding my feet, firing away, photograph after photograph, until gradually the roar began to die down, and my assistant hauled me back inside. I took a deep breath. What had felt like a second was actually an hour going by.
The photographer uses the camera as a machine to strip away unnecessary information, simplify it so that the image can become a symbol. A friend once called me because there was a huge blaze on Thirty-fourth Street. I rushed down to the scene and found confusion- fire trucks, smoke, and firemen running with hoses. But in the camera the chaos became an image of man’s battle with the unknown.
The city sometimes shows its negative side. One morning I decided to photograph the sunrise from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. I had permission to climb the cables, and about four o’clock in the morning a steelworker, my assistant, and I had began the ascent. It was still pitch dark when we got to the top, but we could see a man on the outside cables, ready to jump. The man begged me not to take his picture and I didn’t, but after the steelworker went for help, the roadbed below was filled with television cameramen and photojournalists. Before rescue police could get to him, the man jumped, his body reappeared three hundred feet downstream, and they pulled him into a boat. My stomach was in knots and I called it quits for the day. That night I found out the man had miraculously survived. The next day we tried again. The sunrise was gorgeous.
One of the most exciting experiences I have is photographing the city from a helicopter. It’s like being Superman, swooping in and around the buildings, circling the Statue of Liberty. Just as the camera is a machine that I can use to extend my vision, the helicopter is another extension, giving me the ability to fly.
A lot of what I shoot comes to me in dreams. I wake up in the morning with a particular image in mind, like the one of the Statue of Liberty between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. I knew somehow that the view had to exist, and I went out looking for what I had imagined until I found it. Other times I use two photographs to create an image. With “New York City on Ice,” the ice floes moving below the Brooklyn Bridge reminded me of clouds. By superimposing two images I came up with an unexpected scene of ice that seems to float in the sky.
I don’t expect you to see the way I see. But through the photographs in this book, you will see the way I feel. Enjoy the feelings, as I have, feel the romance for yourself, wherever you are. This book is as much about the way of seeing as it is about Manhattan.
J.R.
New New York, a collage photograph by Jake Rajs
New New York, Collage of buildings that were build the first decade of the 21 century
Modern New York City
A couple of years ago I noticed that New York had gone through an architectural transformation. It moved into the 21 century. This is an image of the new buildings and parks that were created during the first decade of the 21-century.
Le Corbusier said “Light creates ambiance and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.”
Jake Rajs’ by Peter Kotsinadelis These United States—The Definitive American Landscape, Rangefinder Magazine Article
These United States by Jake Rajs
Jake Rajs’ by Peter Kotsinadelis These United States—The Definitive American Landscape, Rangefinder Magazine Article
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. That being the case, one could say the images in Jake Rajs’ new book, These United States, speak volumes. The book is the most recent from the New York-based photographer and took nearly four years to compile from 30 years worth of archived images. Additionally, there is a wonderful introduction by veteran newsman Walter Cronkite, whom Jake remembers seeing on television when he was eight and had just moved to the United States.
These United States (Rizzoli, 2003) is a photo book that illustrates the magnificence of the country and is divided it into six sections: “Land,” “Coast,” “Freedom,” “Trails,” “Country,” and “City.” As you review these sections, the images convey a story—a journey from vast open land to beautiful coasts, national monuments, open trails, cities and country places.
While looking at Jake’s eighth book in a dozen years, I was most curious to learn how these ideas came to him. Jake explains, “They just pop into my head. I treat each image as a paragraph in a story and go through my library of more than 150,000 images. As the concept develops I look for what else I may need to tell the story and begin shooting to complete the book.
“As I edit the images, I try not to become too attached to one photograph, even though it may have taken me 6000 miles to get to. Another photograph, which may have happened in 30 seconds could better tell the story. The public only sees the end product, so once the photograph is taken, you ask yourself if there’s life in the photograph. How long it took you to take it and how difficult it was to take are things the public will not see in your image.”
Born in Poland, Jake’s family immigrated to Israel when he was five, and a few years later to the United States. A graduate of Rutgers College with a B.A. in Studio Art, one does not wonder how he was drawn into photography.
“Originally I thought I would be a sculptor or painter since Michelangelo, Matisse and Picasso were huge influences on me, but I have always been interested in the arts. So one time in college when I was writing poetry I decided to use photography as a means to illustrate my work. What I soon learned was that my photography was a lot better than my poetry, so I decided I had to go with what I was better at.”
Jake’s photography has led him from working on national ad campaigns for American Express, AT&T, Ford and the U.S. Army to traveling to places like Istanbul and Turkey, while doing feature stories for Travel & Leisure magazine. Currently his clients include Nike, Citicorp, CBS Records, Donald Trump, GM’s Chevrolet division, and Marriott, just to name a few.
His photography work speaks for itself, “Good work comes from passion. You reveal yourself. You need to be honest. You cannot lie to yourself, or it will be like diving into a pool with no water in it.”
Jake’s cameras are all film, and include a Fujifilm GX-617 medium format panorama camera with 105mm lens and a Center Neutral Density filter to remove vignetting, a Pentax 67 with various lenses, and a Sinar 4×5. He does use a Nikon F5 and F100 35mm SLRs as well, but prefers medium or large format for his work.
“Sometimes if I arrive at a destination and the light is leaving too quickly for me to set up my medium format gear, I grab my F5 or F100 and shoot. It’s always better to get the image even on a smaller format than to miss it entirely.”
His film of choice is Fujichrome Velvia 50 for almost all his work. “As a painter I liked colors and was influenced by pop artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist. I tried newer films including Velvia 100F, but Velvia 50 gives me the image I want with great color.”
Jake Rajs’ by Peter Kotsinadelis These United States—The Definitive American Landscape article PDF
Presidents Day, Washington’s Birthday, Mount Vernon, Mount Rushmore by Jake Rajs
South Dakota, Mount Rushmore National Monument in Black Hills
Virginia. George Washington's home on Mount Vernon, built in 1743
Mount Vernon, located near Alexandria, Virginia, was the plantation home of George Washington, the first President of the United States. The mansion is built of wood in neoclassical Georgian architectural style, and is located along the Potomac River.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.George Washington
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
Bio Jake Rajs
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Jake Rajs was born in Poland and moved to Israel before coming to Brooklyn at age eight. “My father came first, while we were in Israel, maybe it’s my childhood memory talking, but we came on a ship. It took two weeks, and then we arrived in New York harbor. We were all on deck, it was nighttime, and we see the Statue of Liberty and everyone’s crying, I’m crying. Then, early in the morning, we were watching the sun hit the skyline, and everything turns golden. People came for their dreams.”
New York, Long Island, Hudson Valley, Connecticut-based photographer. Specializing in commercial and art photography, best known for stunning and timeless architectural and landscape imagery.
Jake Rajs has traveled across America and throughout the world capturing the images and spirit of place. He has created award-winning photographs that have been featured in countless magazines, books and albums and his prints are in numerous museums and private collections.
Over 16 art books in print by publishers including Rizzoli, Random House, and Monacelli Press. Representative works include, New New York, (Random House, Monacelli Press, 2011), These United States, with an Introduction by Walter Cronkite (Rizzoli, 2008), Atlantic with an Introduction by Walter Cronkite (Rizzoli, 2007),New York: City of Islands, with an Introduction by Pete Hamill (The Monacelli Press, 2007), Manhattan: an Island in Focus, (Rizzoli/Universe, 2005), Portrait of Long Island: The North Fork and the Hamptons (The Monacelli Press, 2011), Carved by Time: Landscapes of the Southwest, with an Introduction by Hampton Sides (The Monacelli Press, 2010), Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons, with an Introduction by Paul Goldberger (The Monacelli Press, 2008), Between Sea and Sky: Landscapes of Long Island’s North Fork (The Monacelli Press, 2006), America with an Introduction by James Michener (Rizzoli/Universe, 2005). The Hudson River: From Tear of the Clouds to Manhattan (The Monacelli Press, 2006), Cherry Blossoms (Rizzoli, 2008), Cape Cod and the Islands (Rizzoli, 2008), The Twin Towers: Moments in Time (Apple App, 2011)
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Parade for Hostages returning from Iran, Broadway Avenue, Manhattan, photo by Jake Rajs
Parade for Hostages returning from Iran, Broadway Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA
The experience of photographing Manhattan is so overwhelming that time seems to stop. When the hostages were freed from Iran in 1981 and New York gave them a ticker-tape parade, I got a press pass and found a good vantage point on the ledge of high above Broadway. All of the sudden I could hear the roar of the crowd. The roar began to build, then far below the parade began to approach. I was mesmerized. The next thing that I knew I was hanging over the ledge, with my assistant holding my feet, firing away, photograph after photograph, until gradually the roar began to die down, and my assistant hauled me back inside. I took a deep breath. What had felt like a second was actually an hour going by.
Shooting Aerials from a helicopter, Empire and Statue of Liberty buildings,NYC
New York. Chrysler Building Aerial, New York City, designed by William Van Alen in 1928
One of the most exciting experiences I have is photographing the city from a helicopter. It’s like being Superman, swooping in and around the buildings, circling the Statue of Liberty. Just as the camera is a machine that I can use to extend my vision, the helicopter is another extension, giving me the ability to fly.
Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York City, New York, New Jersey, Aerial
- Empire State Building, designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, William F. Lamb as chief designer (&Gregory Johnson), aerial
8 Spruce Street, architect Frank Gehry, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
8 Spruce Street, architect Frank Gehry, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
8 Spruce Street, architect Frank Gehry, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. I love the fluid forms of the building as you look up into the sky. The steel and glass wall looks like it is a curtain blowing in the wind.
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” Frank Gehry
“Liquid architecture. It’s like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it’s a way of – for me, it’s a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.” Frank Gehry
4 photographs merged together in Photoshop
The journey is the reward. -Tao Saying California, Route 1, Big Sur, Aerial, Pacific Ocean. Sunset
California, Route 1, Big Sur, Aerial, Pacific Ocean. Sunset
The journey is the reward. -Tao Saying
California, Route 1, Big Sur, Aerial, Pacific Ocean. Sunset
Sea glass, Napeague Bay, Amagansett
Seaglass, New York, Amagansett, Napeague Bay, South Fork, Long Island, High angle looking down on water, panorama
Sea glass, Napeague Bay, Amagansett, NY
I walked out on a pier over the bay the sun was high above me, I was excited by the light patterns on and through the water .
2 photos stitched together
Valentine’s Day, Couple Walking In The Rain, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
Couple walking in the rain, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
Kahlil Gibran on Love
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home 1811-1816, at Knob Creek in Hodgenville
Washington DC, District of Columbia, The Lincoln Memorial, designed by Henry Bacon, stands at the west end of the National Mall as a neoclassical monument
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
The assertion that “all men are created equal” was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
West Virginia, Charleston, State Capitol Building, Statue of Abraham Lincoln
Perpetual Learning-Lincoln Center-Welcome Led Lighted Staircase
Welcome, LED Lighted staircase, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro,Lincoln Center Plaza, New York City, New York, USA
Perpetual Learning
I go to work every morning with the possibility that I might learn something I don’t already know. . . . If you look at a problem as an opportunity to show what you already know, it’s useless. You should look at every problem and think, “What can I learn by doing this?” And if you think you can learn nothing, forget about doing it. Milton Glaser
This photograph is a blend of 4 images in photoshop
Hudson River Sunset, Hudson Highlands, Garrison, New York
Hudson River Sunset, Hudson Highlands, Garrison, New York
Hudson River, Hudson Highlands, Garrison, NY, 1985 Archival pigment print. I was finishing up my book on the Hudson River. I still hadn’t captured what I felt would be the cover of the book. This was my last day of shooting, I arrived at this location when the sky was still overcast cloudy, as the sun was setting, the magic hour, the clouds parted, and the golden light illuminated the scene with magical light.
“To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself. The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tear Drop Arch, Arizona, Utah, Monument Valley, Navajo Nation
Tear Drop Arch, Arizona, Utah, Monument Valley, Navajo Nation
Navajo saying- ”Beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I am on the pollen path.”
Lovers, Barcelona, Spain
Couple Walking Together, Barcelona, Spain
I whispered, ‘I am too young,’
And then, ‘I am old enough’;
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
‘Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair.’
Ay, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.
“Brown Penny” by William Butler Yeats
Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse, by Cass Gilbert, Triumph of the Human Spirit, Sculptor Lorenzo Pace, Foley Square Black History
Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse, by Cass Gilbert, Triumph of the Human Spirit, Sculptor Lorenzo Pace, Foley Square, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, fountain
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi… has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Thurgood Marshall
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
Apollo Theater, famous music hall Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York – Black History
Apollo Theater, most famous music hall, Architect: George Keister, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Apollo Theater, most famous music hall, Architect: George Keister, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
he Apollo Theater in New York City is one of the oldest and most famous music halls in the United States, and the most famous club associated almost exclusively with African-American performers. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places,[2] and was the home of Showtime at the Apollo, a nationally syndicated television variety show consisting of new talent.
The theater is located at 253 W. 125th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically in Harlem, one of the United States’ most historically significant traditionally African-American neighborhoods.
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