...my barbaric YAWP...
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The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
....
"Song of Myself"
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
New York 3
Some photographs I have taken while playing the part of tourist.
Ferry full of tourists headed for Statue of Liberty
Viewed with telephoto from Battery Park, Fort Clinton behind and Fire House at right
Distant Liberty
telephoto shot of the statue as I was sailing by
Fire House at Battery Park
"It's a Grand Old Flag" - George M. Cohan
Brooklyn Bridge
Viewed from the tourist observation deck of the World Trade Center
(Just north on the East River is the Manhattan Bridge)
On Brooklyn Bridge
At the Sign of
Fraunces Tavern
54 Pearl Street
"With a heart full of love
and gratitude I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your
latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have
been glorious and honorable."
George Washington's Fairwell Address to his Officers
in the Long Room
Fraunces Tavern
Good Food, Good Wine, A Fine Meal
and history at your elbow!
New York City 2
New York City 4
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All images ©2002 Michael Patrick Corriss
© March 10, 2004
Images photographed with Olympus OM-1 35-mm camera, Olympus KHC microscope,
Ricoh RDC-300Z digital camera, Kodak DX3700 digital camera,
scanned by Nikon LS-2000, scanned by HP ScanJet 6000 and
manipulated with PhotoShopLE.
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