Adam Welz's Weblog

View from Brooklyn Heights, NY, 23 Aug 2009

adamwelz — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:13:24 +0000

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

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Manhattan NY, winter 2010

adamwelz — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:28:18 +0000

Manhattan, New York, USA, 20 Feb 2010 ©Adam Welz

another one from the archives

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Bristol, Vermont, USA, 2 January 2012

adamwelz — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:38:14 +0000

along the main shopping street on the second day of the new year

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Emily & Alvah’s rehearsal dinner, Maine, 14 August 2009

adamwelz — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:52:08 +0000

one from the archives

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Holiday Inn Roadhouse, Springs, Gauteng, South Africa, 1 Nov 2011

adamwelz — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:52:26 +0000

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Fort Greene sidewalk, Brooklyn, NY, 26 Nov 2011

adamwelz — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:13:07 +0000

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A Little Hedonism of Bees – Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY, 26 August 2011

adamwelz — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:44:03 +0000

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.)

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Hurricane Irene Havoc in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn NY!

adamwelz — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:13:45 +0000

#insearchofamorerealisticperspective

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Photos – 24 July 2011: Gay marriage becomes legal in New York

adamwelz — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:15:10 +0000

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

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4th of July 2011, Manhattan, NY

adamwelz — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:04:05 +0000

Just before the fireworks, on the lower west side of Manhattan.

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