Most New Yorkers spent this past winter complaining about the harsh weather.
George Steinmetz took on a more ambitious project: photographing the snowbound city from the seat of a two-person piston-powered helicopter. Steinmetz and his pilot, Dennis Weaver, took multiple trips around the tri-state area, departing from Caldwell Airport, in Fairfield, New Jersey, at dawn. Over Coney Island, the Bronx, Bayonne, and Staten Island, Steinmetz photographed the subway yards, cemeteries, and athletic fields below. As Lauren Collins wrote in her Profile of Steinmetz, from 2010, “Taking aerial photographs is, in a way, like metal detecting—a hunt for treasure invisible from the earth’s surface.” - - | The New YorkerPosted by gerardvanderleun at March 21, 2014 7:52 PM
I didn't know Chester was a chopper pilot.
Posted by: ghostsniper at March 21, 2014 1:34 PMI like it. Lotsa things are more interesting from up there.
Posted by: DeAnn at March 21, 2014 9:57 PM
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