Shadow of the Past Gettysburg 2020 Canvas Print

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The long shadow cast on a cold winter’s day caught my eye as I visited Gettysburg National Military Park, a monument to the lives lost in the Civil War. It was New Year’s Day. 2020. In retrospect, it seems like a prescient place to have begun this tumultuous year.

The monument that bisects the image, near the point where the tree’s roots and its shadow meet, honors the 111th New York Infantry who fought the good fight.

It is a haunting place and the shadow seems to haunt that New York soldier, despite his victory. He won the battle, and the war. Yet a century and a half later, President Lincoln’s words, in the Gettysburg Address, call out to yet another generation, beseeching us to take up his “unfinished work” and defeat injustice. We will overcome.

Today, November 19, 2020, as I upload this, marks the 155th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.

This image was featured in the juried exhibit "Solidarity and Sunrise," co-sponsored by th...

I have been hooked on photography since age six when my grandmother, returning from a trip to Egypt, passed on her well-traveled Kodak Brownie camera as well as her wanderlust. A travel, editorial and fine art photographer by profession, my images seek to shine a light on the reality around me and to evoke an emotional response. My work has been shown in galleries throughout the New York metropolitan area, including at the Museum of the City of New York and hang in the collections of private, institutional and corporate collectors. They have been published in Smithsonian and Coastal Living magazines, in The Guardian newspaper, in books published by National Geographic, Fodors, DK and Workman Publishing and in dozens of other...