Welcome to my weblog where I post samples of my published work (*posting in progress) as well as informal blog posts that often have something to do with birds, birding and nature in general.
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Note: Blog post titles containing dates refer to the dates that images were created, not when the blog posts were created. Don’t be confused by dates that seem out of sequence — sometimes it takes a while to edit images and get them up on the blog.
View from Brooklyn Heights, NY, 23 Aug 2009
from Brooklyn Heights Promenade, NY, USA, 23 Aug 2009 ©Adam Welz
Just found this while clearing junk out of the archive. Go ahead, spot the Statue.
[later in day] I think I prefer this version:
from Brooklyn Heights Promenade, NY, USA, 23 Aug 2009 ©Adam Welz
Manhattan NY, winter 2010
Manhattan, New York, USA, 20 Feb 2010 ©Adam Welz
another one from the archives
Bristol, Vermont, USA, 2 January 2012
along the main shopping street on the second day of the new year
A Little Hedonism of Bees – Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY, 26 August 2011
This image is from the Butterfly Meadow on Lookout Hill the day before hurricane Irene came along and flattened things. (The flower is Cup Plant, Silphium perfoliatum.)
Hurricane Irene Havoc in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn NY!
#insearchofamorerealisticperspective
Photos – 24 July 2011: Gay marriage becomes legal in New York
Hi All
I’ve been slack about blogging lately. Lots of other stuff going on.
Yesterday, 24 July 2011, same-sex marriage became legal in New York state. I headed down with Sarah to the City Clerk’s Office in lower Manhattan, where we were legally married almost a year ago, to record the first official gay marriages in the city.
It was hot and extremely humid. Some had been waiting in line from 4:30am. The doors opened at around 8am to let hundreds of couples begin their progress from one official to the next, accumulating one piece of necessary paper after the next. At times there seemed to be more cameras than participants in this drawn-out, somewhat ad-hoc process. (Why do so many big changes in society involve standing in line?)
There was no shortage of stages on which to perform. Frivolity danced with deadly seriousness. A helluva lot of happiness spread itself around.
The images below are a first, loose edit from a place where the intensely personal became expansively (but not always easily) public and political, old rituals shifted their forms and thousands of people walked into a new phase of their lives.
One day we might look back and wonder what all the fuss was about. I’m glad I made it out of bed at 5am to be there.
*NOTE: All images are copyright Adam Welz 2011. If you would like to reproduce them anywhere or anyhow, please contact me first!
Cheers!
Adam
4th of July 2011, Manhattan, NY
Just before the fireworks, on the lower west side of Manhattan.
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