Inwood, 215th Street Between Broadway and Tenth Avenue

Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

I have no excuse for delaying our trip by posting another photo on the way to the subway except that this is a perfect photograph. It's one of only 3 so far, at least that I remember. Perfect doesn't mean great or best or favorite. It means I sit here and look at it and I marvel that everything is just right. The multiplicity of rectangles countered by the diagonals, the tiny square at the back which echoes the not quite square in the window at front, the light and dark in the alley, the delicate laundry stretched across the alley, and the presence of a man walking in the alley are all just right.

I don't mind if you disagree.

I'm going to put in a new label called Perfect.

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Hell's Kitchen, 46th Street Between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues

Mary Sargent © 2006 …………………………. click to enlarge

This is a perfect photograph.

Yes, it is.

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Inwood, 212th Street at Tenth Avenue

Mary Sargent © 2006

I’m driving to Maine tomorrow morning (yay, vacation!) so this will be my last post until Saturday night. Can’t stay away too long.

I leave you with this clean and simple and, dare I say, perfect photo. I’m not saying it’s a great photo or the best photo, or intriguing or beautiful or terribly interesting, anything like that. I’m just saying it’s perfect.