Bella Mondo Images

  Every morning the staff at the 9/11 Memorial will place a white rose  on those who's birthday is that day. This was taken 28 Feb 2014 Covid did a number on all of our plans to travel. Last year I had planned a trip to New York City to spend time photographing the city in the fall. Hopefully this year the trip will take place. But what I learned while waiting for the all clear is that I did not really know the city of my birth.  Even though I have lived in Rochester for 40 years, I will always consider New York City to be my home town.   In the 40 years I have lived here, I take as many opportunities as I can to visit the city.   For a while it was to visit my parents, but since they passed the trips have been more 1-2 days for holidays.   In 2015 my younger son and his future wife moved to the city and since then we have made more extended trips. On each trip I take time to photograph the city, but what I have found is that I am photographing the same spots as most photography