Weekly Photo Challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale II

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The scale of One World Trade Center, the “Freedom Tower”, rising like the phoenix above the 9/11 Memorial Site, is a wonder to behold. It seems to represent not only freedom but so much more: defiance, resilience, endurance, hope and perhaps above all remembrance.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time…Virgil

This quote from Virgil, which I posted on thechangingpalette three days ago, is displayed in the hall of the 9/11 Memorial Museum. It seems appropriate to post it once again to accompany today’s images.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

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New York, New York

Can there be anything more dramatic than the scale of the Manhattan skyline glistening and glimmmering in the early morning sun, as captured with my iPhone through our taxi window on the ride from JFK this morning after our red-eye flight from Vancouver. I know it’s not the greatest of photos but I feel it captures the beauty and majesty of this magnificent city waking to a new day.

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Yes, for those of you who follow thechangingpalette, we made it to New York this week after our trip was cancelled a week ago because of the weather, and spent a glorious morning at the Matisse Cut-out’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition that is all about scale and color and harmony, just as New York itself is, and about which more to come.

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Swan Luck

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You could call this Swan Luck in Three Acts when I was lucky enough to capture this swan during our walk in Stanley Park on Monday expressing himself so demonstrably to a remarkably unimpressed partner and a platoon of Mallards, all milling about in the unseasonably warm Vancouver sunshine.

Serendipidy…without a doubt.