Dateline September 1- First shoot day on my new photographic project. I venture to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx with my trusty designer/creative director/friend Jan Uretsky, under cloudless 95 degree skies, in search of….
I found the oldest house in the Bronx, dated 1748, next to one of the oldest trees (okay, it looked really old), visited Santa Fe (braving coyotes and dead cows), was tempted to join the local families grilling out & enjoying the park, was not tempted to run on the beautiful Van Cortlandt Park track, and followed the remnants of the “Old Put” railroad where trains did run on the tracks.
photo ©2010: Jan Uretsky
I am still working on defining the theme, tightening the parameters, setting the style and tone, but sometimes you have to just jump right in, get your feet wet, even if it is just from your own sweat dripping on them.
And we met another Bob fishing in the pond, an elderly woman behind a screen who told us the whereabouts of a neighbor who drives a Yugo with the license plate YOGOGAL, some kids enjoying one of the last days before school starts, some nameless drivers looking to score riders to Westchester, and an endless parade of riders for whom this last stop of the #1 train is only the middle of their long journey home, or to work or to play….
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