High and Low

I'm so lucky to get to see the Empire State Building almost every day, in many different lights.  It was green and red for Christmas, blue and white for Hanukkah, red and pink on Valentine's Day, and green and yellow after the Packers won the Super Bowl this year :)

Most nights it is classic white, and I love the lights reflecting off the clouds. If you look closely you can see a chain link fence in the foreground. The following picture was taken standing in the same place, but looking down through the fence instead of up over it:

It's so cool how there's a big empty pit right in the middle of a neighborhood full of huge buildings and skyscrapers. The dynamic range of this city is amazing: the buildings, streets, subway tunnels, and sidewalks are constantly under construction. The only constant in life is change, and I think that's why so many people are drawn to New York--it's alive!