Liberal Burblings

I apologise in advance for harping on about my holiday in New York City. I’ll be like some particularly nerdish holiday slide shower for the next few weeks. But, hey, that’s blogging! 

This (above) is the view of Manhattan from the Upper Bay area (or lower Hudson River area) at night. Not a particularly good photo, I’m afraid. I took it on Monday evening.

On an unbelievably wonderful and celebratory (25th years’ of the old ball and chain – since you ask) dinner yacht experience I expected to be enthralled by the Statue of Liberty. But I was more enthralled by this view above.

It really was utterly jaw-dropping. It is a “guilty pleasure” because of the astronomical enormity of its carbon footprint. I seem to remember that it is the view used in one of the Miramax credit logos.

When you see it in the flesh, it is gobsmackingly beautiful. My photo of it above is rather less beautiful than the “Photo dropper” image here (taken from slightly more up-river I think):

photo credit: digitonin

I think the blackness of the sea/river below and the night sky above, combined with the extreme brightness of the lights in the buildings amke it…it’s just absolutely knockout. I’ll remember it for the rest of my life.

PS. Oh, and here for good measure is my photo of the Statue of Liberty. It was staggering but, for me, not as staggering as the “Miramax view” of Manhattan.

Oh, and while we are at it, the Brooklyn Bridge is just mind-blowing, so here is my pic of that: