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Photographer Dave Arnold  Dave Arnold {Karma:55680}
Project #33 Pictures of Famous Places Camera Model Canon 30D
Categories Historical
Cityscape
Film Format Digital JPEG High
Portfolio Landscapes
Transportation
Lens Canon 75-300MM EF 1:4-5.6 IS
Uploaded 6/17/2007 Film / Memory Type Lexar  1GB
    ISO / Film Speed
Views 432 Shutter 1/1000
Favorites Aperture f/22
Critiques 31 Rating
6.38
/ 8 Ratings
Location City -  New York City
State -  NEW YORK
Country - United States   United States
About We built no walls.
No razor fence.
No patrolling Army platoons
nor redneck goons.

Instead we built piers
and we welcomed the world.
Through which our ancestors gazed
as a new land unfurled.

Now all we say is keep them at bay.
Lock our borders, send them away.
They aren't like us is what they say.
They're all just criminals, aren't they?

Dave Arnold

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This is a view of the New Jersey Central Railroad docks on the Jersey side of the Hudson. These docks witnessed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of immigrants unload from boats bringing them from Ellis Island.

Arriving in America, they were given new "American" names and told where to settle. They were ferried here and then put on trains for their destinations to the west.

Walking under these lampposts, with the NYC skyline looming behind them, how glorious it must have been for those beginning a new life. A new promise. A dream come true.

I spent the morning here, contemplating where we as a country have gone. All of us were once immigrants, natives excluded. How quickly we forgot. How easy it is to say "build a wall, keep them dirty bastards out".
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There are 31 Comments in 1 Pages
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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/26/2007
Thank you, Hakan! I appreciate your kind comment!

Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/26/2007
Thank you, Mike. Appreciate your critique!

Best to you,
Dave

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Hakan AKIRMAK Hakan AKIRMAK   {K:15913} 6/25/2007
Woww! Excellent work Dave! Congratulations! 7+

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Michael Fox Michael Fox   {K:3180} 6/25/2007
Dave – I like the juxtaposition of foreground symmetry over the misty New York skyline in the background. Also, given your reflective mood as stated in your comments, I really like the black and white treatment.

Great image, well seen, nice write-up . . .
-Mike.

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/21/2007
Thank you Ahmed, for checking out my portfolio and leaving such kind comments.

Best wishes,
Dave

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Ahmed Ismail Ahmed Ismail   {K:19853} 6/20/2007
An excellent capture...the symmetry, the tones and the composition are so nice.
Regards, Ahmed

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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor Shirley D. Cross-Taylor   {K:173998} 6/18/2007
You're welcome, Dave!:)

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
I asked the mods to remove them, I was just trying to get their attention about a bit of a problem on the site.

Dave

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Michele Carlsen Michele Carlsen   {K:146013} 6/18/2007
Yeah I can see that... I'd say You are generally 'deep in trouble' :)) Dave yesteray I wanted to read 2 of your post and they had been removed from the donors forum about 'control' I was wondering about the same thing...how come they were removed????

Michele~

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you, Walter, always appreciated.

Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you, Bhabesh. I greatly appreciate your comments.

Best to you,
Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you, Michele... I am deep... but usually just deep in trouble. LOL

Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Gracias, Alicia. No puedo imaginarme porqué no podrías entender mis comentarios, puesto que he dado encima de usar un traductor y apenas componer mi propio español. Pensé que lo hice muy bien. Incluso mencioné el Taco Bell, yo pienso. jajajajajaj

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you, Gary! Always appreciate your visits.

Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thanks, Bob. I was disappointed with the haze when I got here that morning.

Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you John, I always appreciate your comments.

Best wishes,

Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you, Shirley!

Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you, Fadel!

Best to you,
Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you, Fabio. I only wish you were wrong.

Dave

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Dave Arnold Dave Arnold   {K:55680} 6/18/2007
Thank you for the comments, Sandip!

Best wishes,
Dave

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Walter Scarella Walter Scarella   {K:19671} 6/18/2007
I like the perfect use of DOF, great perspective and excellent background with the soft fog between buildings. Magic B&W tones. My best congratulations!!!.........Walter

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Bhabesh Chakrabarti Bhabesh Chakrabarti   {K:11394} 6/18/2007
Very touching Dave. The about is great and attaches the mood so much to the composition, apart from technical excellences that I have fallen in love with it. All the best,
Regards,
Bhabesh

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Michele Carlsen Michele Carlsen   {K:146013} 6/18/2007
Good 'about' and Point made Dave..... You are deeper than I knew and I am glad to know it now - Excellent !!!!
Michele~

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Alicia Popp   {K:87532} 6/18/2007
Buenísima!!!!!
Cuánto ritmo tien la imagen... felicitaciones Dave!

PD: Gracias por tus amables comentarios, el que mencionas Navidad, no lo pude entender. Perdoname!

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Billy Bloggs Billy Bloggs   {K:51043} 6/17/2007
Great cityscape, Dave. And I love the poem and the sentiment as I´ve been an immigrant myself, but maybe that doesn´t count because I`m of European ancestry.
Regards, Gary

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Bob Brins Bob Brins   {K:4130} 6/17/2007
Nice image with good use of the flatness provided by a telephoto. Our NYC "mist" also contributed to this flatness. We are a body of many peoples.

Bob

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John Hatz John Hatz   {K:156973} 6/17/2007
I love perspective...and the only think I have the.......need to see here is...ahhhhif the lamps was more...hahaha but for me objects in line - perspective never are enouph.! :-D Great photo, two elements here changed by the power of the tones, the foregrounded lamps with the woods in strong - deep tone and the cityscape in softer way at the background bothly connected and works togather for a great composition.

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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor Shirley D. Cross-Taylor   {K:173998} 6/17/2007
Beautiful composition, Dave,...wonderful poem, and thoughtful 'about'!:)

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Fadel J Fadel J   {K:13974} 6/17/2007
Very thoughtful work Dave!

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Fabio Keiner   {K:81109} 6/17/2007
times are changing fast (i.e. racism always was the underlying truth of america's openness towards 'the immigrantee' - s. early discrimination of (catholic) irish, italian or polish people. - but it was not so brazen and open as since reagan and no under bush.) america's borders NOT always were open to all, not even in her glorious epoch, which you evoke... let alone the brutal genocide against the native indians (which allowed the creation & growth of usa, the forced slave-trade and slave-holdery for the 1th century of usa's existence, the landrobbery from mexico... and so on.
usa is like babylon: about to fall amongst a general global catastrophe (and your rulers feel it:))
nevermind, this picture is very fine.

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Sandip Aine   {K:5008} 6/17/2007
Excellent b/w ... Wonderful about section .. Grt story telling image ...

Regards,

-sandip

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