Ok, so I’m editing this entry to reflect some commentary on it. These pictures weren’t meant to be art. I’m was throwing them out there because I was afraid of picking up my camera again for fear the results would be below my standards. But, as it turns out, I found out that I can still take pictures with a real camera.

So, the one who put the haterade out there and you know who you are, well, I turned the haterade into gatorade. Man, that was terrible rhyme, but the point is the haterade made me realize that I can take real photos again.

So, bring on the haterade. Go ahead. I can take it.

And away with the original entry:

There are places in New York that you go many times that are just blah. Times Square. Disney-fied.

We always had to take Circle Line when people would come to our house. Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty and the many bridges. Ok, that’s nice. But, we would always pass by this place with these college campus looking buildings and I would wonder about the place. It seemed abandoned. I am a bit of a cheeseball, and I liked imaging who lived there and what life was like on this uninhabited island off the coast of Manhattan.

I am sitting at work on Friday and my co-worker tells me that the island is open and there is a ferry that runs there. It meant taking the subway, my well documented enemy, but I endured it.

And, I am glad I did because going there was really worth it.

Governor’s Island is an old military base that was occupied by the Army and Coast Guard over the years. It closed in 1996.

Check out this place:

This is the old governor’s house on the island.

Some more views:

And yet more:

Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore. Case in point:

Love the accent canons. Gives it a special something you just don’t find everywhere.

Here are some of the old barracks:

An entry way to one of them:

Thank god for that manual setting on the camera.

These just made me happy. I loved how the girl’s dresses contrasted against the gray of the city. I couldn’t pick one, so I just took all three:

And one altered, cropped, you know, whatever, but something to make the photos “less touristy” and most “arty.”