The day the world changed
On March 17, 2020, things were changing rapidly in New York. I was on my second day of working from home. Little did I know it was the start of months of lock down. I’m sure everyone can remember something about the early days of the pandemic. On this day, I finished work early and decided to drive out to Breezy Point which is at the end of a long skinny peninsula located on the southwestern tip of Long Island. I had never been out there before and quickly came to find out that if you weren’t a resident, you did not have access. After I disappointedly turned the car around, I quickly spotted a small parking lot on my left that seemed to have water front access. Sure enough, it had an excellent view of Marine Parkway Bridge, so why not. It was still early enough that the airplane overhead was not abnormal. I even had a chat with an off-duty cop who was fishing at this tiny slice of rocky coastline and the only other person present. It would be a while before random in-person chats were a thing again. This image brings me back to that feeling of ambiguity around what life was going to be moving forward.
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18mm f/8 0.5s iso100
Exposure Blend (faster shutter speed for the plane)