Fireworks & Tugs

See the decorated Dutch bar?  That’s not something you see every day.

but July 4 is not an ordinary day.  Just look at all those people at the land’s edge:  “water-gazers” Melville called them, as you can read here with the last sentence of the second paragraph and go through the next two paragraphs.   All wanting to see the decorated Dutch bar?

Brendan Turecamo, showing the Turecamo flag!

Marie J Turecamo brought a barge of pyrotechnics too.

Marion Moran–like Brendan Turecamo–brought a barge full to midtown, I believe.

. . . as did Doris Moran. Again, see the water-gazers fill the esplanade.

Other tugboats brought other gazers . . . sky-gazers soon.

like Kimberly Poling and .

 

Yemitzis, launched as a PRR tug in 1954.   Click here and scroll to see her original look.

My goal at the fireworks on Pier 16 had been to get shots of Ambrose bathed in pyrotechnical light, but alas . . . without the right orientation of camera to boat to flashes . . . this is the best I got.

This photo from July 2012 was what I had imagined I could get.  Well . . . it’s all about a lot of things, including location.   See the different version of this shot of the left of this page and please let’s continue the discussion on the future of Pegasus.

Speaking of sky-gazers . . . from the back of the crowd on Pier 16, this is what I got.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

And if you didn’t see this article in the NYTimes about digital photography and ethics, check it out, even if you just look at the before and after photos.