Brooklyn Bridge, NYC

One of my favourite scenes in the original Sex and the City movie takes place towards the end: Miranda is walking on the Brooklyn Bridge hoping to see her one-time unfaithful husband and love of her life, Steve, walking towards her. Those recognisable double arches stretch up into the blue sky and the sun is shining down through the cool spring air onto all the pedestrians. As Al Green and Joss Stone sing about mending a broken heart, Miranda spots Steve and their feet can't bring them together quickly enough because this union signals an unspoken agreement to let go of their past hurts and move forward together in love. Every time I watch it, I think how poetically it combines everything that I love about New York City: the urban lifestyle, the stylish people, that brilliantly written tv series, and the familiar architecture that I love to explore.

I think walking that familiar bridge is the last untouched line on my New York City To Do List. I've scurried up and down Manhattan's avenues and streets like a little mouse, shamelessly playing tourist on five separate, dynamic occasions, albeit for a day at a time! I've photographed my reflection in the exterior window of the Empire State Building, reflected on the calm after the 9-11 storm at the World Trade Centre Memorial, and became swept away in a sea of people amongst Times Square's towers of neon and pixels. Yes, I heart New York. But I still haven't really seen the Brooklyn Bridge.

That explains why I am supplementing this post with a substandard image of that famous span. I realise it doesn't truly do it justice. I didn't really even have a whole lot of control over how it came out being that I shot it while sitting aboard a CitySightsNY double decker tour bus! Even though the main aim of that particular visit was to photograph the bridge while standing somewhere between Brooklyn and Manhattan, I figured I better take what I can get as we passed by. It's like taking a picture of a deer you spot while walking in the forest: take a picture as soon as you see it and then work on getting more refined as you move closer. That way, if it darts out of view, you'll at least have something to say you saw it...