So often photographers are encouraged to edit their photos to make them "better". We take away the blemishes on a flower, the crumbs on a table, we adjust the lighting.

What if we uncover the patience we had with film and do better to get it right in camera? What if the photo is a dark skyline? Barely visible? Do we force the viewer to come closer if they wish to see what we saw? To feel what we felt? Or do we edit to make it "easier" for them?

NYC - never sleeps and yet that night when I wasn't sleeping, NYC apparently was.

I pulled back the curtains to this view. I didn't realize the city could be this absent of light, even in fog. 

The 31st floor of the Marriott - lower Manhattan - the Financial District.

And there I was ... alone.

I felt like the only one awake in the city that never sleeps.

4:04am precipice

thirty-one floors up

no lights. no motion. no sound.

skyline barely visible

moon-washed light

at the window

watching nothing

not a single flicker

only stillness

and then i vanished

into fog.

into glass.

into the liminal space

did i exist

yet disappear

dangerously close to the precipice,

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