This was taken on Day 2 of our New York jaunt in summer of this year. We rode the subway from near our hotel to Brooklyn and then walked back across the bridge to Manhattan.
New York offers so many subjects for photographers, but so many that have been done and done well. What's an old hack like me to do? Well, I'm not not going to take a pic. The version I printed and had mounted didn't have Gel's head in the bottom left like this one.
As we walked across the bridge I notice that it was festooned, as is the modern way, with padlocks put there by people wanting to mark a special moment. A token of love, the loss of love, special moments in their lives. About half way over we came across two workmen in helmets and hi-viz vests, a large bin on wheels and a pair of bolt cutters. They were taking away people's tokens of love, their tokens of a special moment in their lives and putting them in a big NY council bin.
A woman walking towards us saw this taking place and described how these guys must relate their day's work to their families when they returned home. "Good day honey?", "Yeah, we spent the day removing people's hopes and dreams..."
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Hat of the Day
Toronto Blue Jays St Patrick's Day hat. This hat is special as I bought it on my honeymoon in 2011. I went to a couple of game, neither of which was on St Pat's Day, but unable to resist a bargain I picked it up in the team store. I did buy another Jays hat on the same trip which you'll see later.
The selfie was taken at Diamond Hand Car Wash while my regular guys were buffing up my Skoda.
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Terrible nights sleep again. That dexamethasone really buggers up your system. Glad I'm only on it two days out of 21.
2 comments:
Thank you, great picture and the story about removing peoples' hopes and dreams is priceless!
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