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Lower Manhattan/Downtown Canon 6D, 17-40mm f/4L lens: iso100, 17mm, 0ev, f10, 1/100 |
I'm sure her reasons for loving it are quite different from mine, but, the tour left such an impression on me that I wanted to blog about it. Here's what hit me.
- Perspective. When tromping around the boroughs on the ground, everything is so large that you just can't get your head around everything. You certainly need to experience things first-hand on the ground for obvious reasons, but you won't have strong spacial understanding of scale without pondering things while hovering around in the air. I'm a big city nut and love humans in dense live/work situations. After decades of visits to NYC, I now finally feel like I "get it" spatially.
- Site coverage. Again, while no substitute for hands/feet on a given site (e.g. WTC, 30 Rock, etc), you see everything on this tour. From Harlem, to Yankee Stadium, to Coney Island, to Freedom Tower, to..... You cover a lot of ground so to speak.
- Fun. I'd never been in a helicopter before. It was just plain fun!
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Brooklyn Bridge Canon 6D, 17-40mm f/4L lens: iso100, 40mm, 0ev, f10, 1/100 |
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Empire State Building Canon 6D, 17-40mm f/4L lens: iso100, 40mm, 0ev, f10, 1/125 |
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Harlem Canon 6D, 17-40mm f/4L lens: iso100, 17mm, 0ev, f8, 1/125 |
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Mid-town Canon 6D, 17-40mm f/4L lens: iso100, 40mm, 0ev, f10, 1/100 |
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