The Lighthouse, Roosevelt Island, NYC Wood Print

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The Lighthouse on Roosevelt Island, New York, NY. Designed by engineer and self-trained architect James Renwick, Jr., the Gothic style octagonal stone lighthouse was completed in 1873. It was built with gray gneiss quarried on the island mostly by convict labor from the penitentiary there. Renwick, the supervising engineer for the Distributing Reservoir in NYC for the Croton water supply system, also designed such notable buildings as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, Main Building at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and both Grace Church and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan.

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...