Space Shuttle Enterprise flies over the Hudson River and its new home, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
Myles Mancuso, 17, plays the keyboard with the Arlington High School Jazz Machine at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY. Myles, who sings and plays guitar, piano, bass, sax and drums, got his start at the age of 9 when he performed on stage with Levon Helm from “The Band” in Woodstock, NY. Myles is a nationally recognized prodigy who fronts his own band. He’s been billed in New York City as “New York’s Youngest Working Bandleader”.
A very positive article about the Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kathleen Beckmann. Shooting live orchestral performances is challenging, but these two images were captured at previous concerts and worked beautifully with Scott Cornell’s story.
Firefighters from Beacon and Fishkill saved the lives of three people on this night. Their bravery was captured in this scene shortly after I arrived.
11-year-old Lauren Shields stands with Orange County Acting Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Freehill after a naturalization ceremony in his Goshen, NY courtroom. Lauren, whose life was saved by a heart transplant when she was seven, asked 75 newly sworn U.S. citizens to enroll in New York State’s organ donor registry. In her speech to them, she said, “It is one of the first steps you can take today to put your citizenship to good use.”
There’s a strong connection between retired New York State Corrections Officer Gary Southard, the New York YMCA Camp down the road from his house in Huguenot, and the many gallons of maple syrup he helps to produce at the camp each spring. Gary, who was saved by a heart transplant several years ago, saw first hand how too many young lives were being lost to crime. Now, in the early months of each year when scores of maple trees around the camp give up some of their life sustaining sap to a labor intensive process that turns it into maple syrup, Gary gives back with hundreds of hours of his time so that disadvantaged kids have a chance to attend the camp in the summer.
An out-of-state Asplundh tree foreman sizes up a job in Mahopac, NY after a freak pre-Halloween snowstorm hits the Northeast leaving hundreds of thousands in the dark for days. Utility crews from as far away as Tennessee helped restore power.
Workers, performing inspections for the New York State Bridge Authority, return to the deck of the Bear Mountain Bridge.
Brooklyn-based photorealism painter Stephen H. Fox captures photographic images of the Hudson River from atop Breakneck Ridge. Steve was on the mountain all night in order to be there as the morning’s first rays of sunlight illuminated his scene.
Matt Hawes, a trail builder for Tahawus Trails LLC, puts the finishing touches on a spiral staircase in New York’s Bear Mountain State Park.
Mary Lewis, 91, of Monroe, NY at the charity she founded 47 years ago. Every Monday she is there at the The Cottage Thrift Shop of the First Presbyterian Church to help sort clothing for the poor.
Helicopters and crews from 3 Phase Line Construction, Inc., a subsidiary of MasTec, perform work for a $6.6 million Con Edison, Inc. improvement project on electric transmission lines that span the Hudson River between Stony Point in Rockland County and Buchanan in Westchester County.
A worker from 3 Phase Line Construction, a subsidiary of MasTec, installs a spacer between two transmission cables which stretch for more than a mile across the Hudson River. The cables interconnect the transmission systems of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. and Con Edison, Inc.
A Lewis Tree Service, Inc. worker opens a road for CH Energy Group, Inc. crews after an ice storm downs trees and power lines across Putnam and Dutchess counties in New York.
A Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. utility worker in an aerial bucket makes a catch while repairing power lines downed by an ice storm in Eastchester, NY.
