Photo was manipulated in Paint Shop Pro from a photo I took on the boat to Ellis Island during our one and only trip into New York City, about 2 months before 9-11-2001.
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Mike, this is a fantastic picture. It has the qualities of an oil painting. I really like it.
Dave,
Thanks. I just put it through a tool called “brush strokes.” It was actually from a photo taken by a camera that stored the images on 3.5″ floppy disks.
I’m with Davina. I can see that picture in a frame on the wall.
Beautiful! I would mat and frame this and hang it on my wall.
It’s bittersweet, given the subject matter… but somehow there’s an innocence here; like someone is smiling through tears.
Davina – after the event, I was pretty disappointed in the images that I had taken. Even though it was a sunny day, as I recall, the pictures of the skyline were more like a cloudy day. The best that I had was this one, but it wasn’t one that I’d want to post without doing something with it.
It was actually from a photo taken by a camera that stored the images on 3.5″ floppy disks with 2.5 megapixel resolution. I put it through a creative effects filter to get this effects and was able to get an effect I liked on the first try..
My first impression was of an earthquake, but then it is not far from the truth – we are still feeling the ripples!
Grannymar – That’s true.
Yesterday, we watched the first two or three of hours of NBC video that was broadcast originally as events were unfolding. Even 9 years later, the events of that day and how they unfolded are almost hard to grasp.
I was in Paisley, Scotland on 9/11 and due to fly home to Belfast that night. On my way back to Elly’s flat to pack my bag, I discovered the awful happenings and went into a local lounge/pub to watch the events on the large screen. It was either CNN or Sky with rolling news, and I still get the shivers when I think about it. Waiting in the departure lounge at Glasgow airport that night was like a scene from a Alfred Hitchcock motion picture. All our bags had to be put in the hold, including ladies purses/handbags. Yet, men were allowed to board the plane with laptops!! I found that very disturbing at the time and still do, Of the passengers in that waiting area – and we were waiting several hours due to flights being cancelled or delayed – nobody talked. The women sat quietly but the men were like caged animals suddenly jumping out of their seats and pacing up and down. I was never so pleased in all my life to reach home and my own bed! My heart still bleeds for those who lost loved ones that day.
For me, it was the 2nd day back to work after a four week trip that took us quite a ways up north into British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. For quite a while, it overshadowed the happier memories of that trip. Ironically, we had taken a boat trip to the southern end of Upper Waterton Lake, crossing from Canada into the United States and back again. We noticed that there were trails that went along the lake, crossing the border, and that there was really no formal border crossing point, just a National Park Service ranger station. We talked about how easy it would be for a terrorist — yes, we used that word — to enter the US there, not that there weren’t other places just as easy or easier. And that conversation was probably somewhere around September 1st, 2001.
I remember I was working downtown when I heard the news. I worked for a company that provided health insurance for those within the military. I learned more than I wanted to know of its aftermath.
Fast forward a week later and I was in New York City for a meeting, about what had transpired. Naturally getting there was trouble, lots of flight cancellation. If I recall, I had to make that trip by train. I saw some of the same people in Laguardia airport as I had when I was trying to get as flight to their from BWI. Flights were still being cancelled, which wasn’t a surprise. I was prepared and had brought books along to help pass the time.
Me and one of the same people I had seen when I was going to New York City from BWI. started jokingly betting on which flights would actually leave on time, or be cancelled. No money was placed, we just laughed if our answer was accurate. We usually leaned towards the flight being cancelled. I guess for us; it was a way to release some of the sadness/stress that many of us were experiencing. Having an up close and personal view of what happened while I was New York City just one week later is an experience I’ll never forget.
I worked at a nuclear power plant at a building outside the security perimeter. Though reaction was slow, within a day or so, our building had armed security guards and we were required to wear our badges, which before that had only been needed to go to the plant. National guard troops were stationed at the site, including an armored personnel carrier and camouflaged snipers in the woods — on Halloween, one of the snipers showed up at our bowling league still in his camo fatigues and face paint!
Over time, the security structure evolved and matured. Today, the site security fencing looks more like a cross between a prison and a high security military installation, including guard towers. The security force is highly trained, with periodic exercises where outside teams attempt to infiltrate the plant and get to sensitive equipment. I even heard that they are even installing remote operating defensive weaponry. While I was there on contract last year, they had a multi-day security exercise that included local, county, and state law enforcement as well as FBI, Home Land Security, and national guard.
I think it’s overkill. There are far more vulnerable targets that will have a much larger impact than attacking a nuclear power plant.
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