Great Horned Owl
by cdn1

Comment:
if this is not a symbol for the sense of purpose…..

Pears
by primabarbara

Comment:
A golden one! Must be a Reine Claude

Raining Under Manhattan Bridge
by insteps

Comment:
I just adore to see how people who do not live in NYC see it in all its complexity.
Your collection is a lament, yes, and also a longing for time to stay still in a place whose characteristic is a perpetual change.
I'd like to revisit the area with your photos in hand, to see what you saw but I know that it is impossible because things already changed.

Your photo essay is part of NYC history. And still, one my my favorite images is the one where you found as by strange coincidence a poster reminding you of the face of your beautiful Jin!

6315
by pixelpig

Comment:
I do not think that we need a warning to look at this heartfelt essay. It is about life, and death is a part of life. It is regarded though like a failure, like a disease, like something that needs to be ignored and never ever mentioned, something that happens to "others". We show endless pictures with new born babies and stay away from old people.

What you show us here reminded me of a recent book "Being Mortal", by Dr. Atul Gawande. As it's described on the cover, "Dr. Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit."

You made a great tribute to your mother and your essay is a deep cry, hopefully not in the desert.
I read a while ago the memories of Dag Hammarskjold and there is this sentence that is worth mentioning:

"No choice is uninfluenced by the way in which the personality regards its destiny and the body its death. In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts us."

There is something that struck me in your series of photographs - there is a illumination of your mother's face that makes even more powerful the mystery of life and death.

I salute you for your photo essay.

Message edited by author 2016-01-01 19:35:20.

promenade
by mariuca

Comment:

Originally posted by tvsometime: How could I have missed this location on CPW? Good work.

Nope Tom. It's Fifth Ave. Thanks for the comment. I love that spot also

the street
by cutout

Comment:
Nice - you could have made to bigger

Tree on the Prairie
by Jules1x

Comment:
has the quality of a historic post war photograph

One Lone Tree
by patches

Comment:
shy also

Interconnection
by clickodak

Comment:
A portrait of Lyssa, the goddess of raging fury

At Midnight, They Dance
by PenelopeK

Comment:
they dance in the nude!