Lady Liberty

Visited the Statue of Liberty today on assignment. We're previewing the reopening of the crown to the general public (Which is scheduled to happen on July 4). When I got word that I'd be shooting this, it dawned on me that for 28 of the 32 years of my life, I've lived an hour from there (or less), yet had never managed to find the time to visit. (The four years out of the area were spent away at college.) The closest I'd come was an 8th-grade trip on the Circle Line cruise, and all I remember from that was forgetting to put film in my camera, (Film? What's that??), and then last June when we sailed by the statue on our way out of New York on our family cruise ... So I was really excited to shoot Lady Liberty from Liberty Island itself. The funny thing is that although this story was about the reopening of the crown, we were allowed nowhere near it. Being in the media does, however, have some perks, so we at least bypassed the one-and-a-half hour line to enter and climb to the observation deck at the top of the pedistal. Anyway, I'll shut up now and show some of my favs... :)

Got caught in this storm on the way back home... as soon as we stepped off the boat, the sky opened up, drenching me and the reporter. The concessions crew on the boat were nice enough to provide me with plastic bags for my cameras, so at least no harm done there...