The Mark D Phillips Collection
Smokey sunset on July 22, 2021, in Gowanus, Brooklyn, with the Statue of Liberty. Fires in Oregon spread heavy smoke in New York City, causing brilliant sunset colors.
Face in the smoke of World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 just seconds after the second plane struck the south tower. MANDATORY CREDIT: ©2001,markdphillips.com/Mark D. Phillips NOT TO BE PRINTED OR RETRANSMITTED WITHOUT EXPRESSED WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. Contact mark (at) markdphillips.com for licensing contracts.
Tribute in Light memorial on September 11, 2020, the nineteenth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, taken from Red Hook Brooklyn's Valentino Pier. As daybreaks, the smoke from the California wildfires is orange in the western sky as clouds capture the twin beams of light.
World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty stand tall in New York Harbor. Shot from ferry to New Jersey during thuderstorm
The Winter Garden Theatre in Times Square looks abandoned during COVID pandemic on September 23, 2020. One pedestrian walks alone past the shuttered theatre on an empty Broadway.
QM2 surrounded by a rainbow and spray from the John J. Harvey fireboat for the arrival of the ship in New York Harbor celebrating the 175th Anniversary of the Cunard Line's first trans Atlantic crossing.
Three Giraffes float overhead against the sky at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida
A Caracal snarls at Hai Bar, Israel, a 3,000-acre (12 km2) breeding and reacclimation center administered by the Israel Nature Reserves & National Parks Authority. With their sleek, streamlined body, short, reddish gold coat, and dramatic markings on the face, caracals are among the most beautiful of cats. Also called the desert lynx, Caracals are the heaviest and also the fastest of the small cats and are the largest of the small cats in Africa.
Southern masked weaver (also known as African masked weaver) hangs from the entrance to its nest in Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Space Shuttle Discovery on Pad 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida the night before launch with a blazing sunset. STS-29 was the 28th Space Shuttle flight and the 8th by Discovery. It took off from Launch Pad 39-B on March 13, 1989 at 9:57:00 a.m. EST. It landed at Edwards AFB on March 18, 1989 at 6:35:51 a.m. PST. The main payload carried and placed into orbit was the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is rolled out from the VAB at Cape Canaveral in Florida on March 12, 1989, in preparation for an April 28, 1989, launch. The STS-30 Magellan mission finally launched on May 4, 1989.
Lilly's Bar gate and the Todd Shipyard building in Red Hook. In 1916, William H. Todd purchased the Red Hook Graving Docks, first built in 1886 to repair large ships in its dry docks. Todd Shipyard Corporation was a quintessential part of the neighborhood fabric, employing 20,000 workers at its height. A vital piece of Red Hooks’ history as a sea-faring haven was demolished over- night to become New York City’s first IKEA superstore, which some have called “a billion-dollar boondoggle.”
IS Brandtsen pier collapsed into Gownaus Bay at the end of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines, New York, was the leading US-flag shipping company between the U.S. east coast and the Mediterranean from 1919 to 1977
Jay Cochrane Skywalk2012 first day on July 6, 2012 from the Skylon Tower to the Hilton Fallsview Hotel, 1300 feet across in Niagara Falls, Canada.
Jay Cochrane, "The Prince of the Air", practices for his skywalk over the Yangtze River in Qutang Gorge, China, in 1995. The skywalk was and is the greatest ever made spanning half a mile between the canyon walls and 1,350 feet above the river. ©/Mark D. Phillips
Tom Petty sings acoustic at the Rainbow Room during a Bat Mitzvah held in Manhattan, New York.
Annie's Canyon on Lake Powell, Utah creates a Cats face in reflection and shadow.
Colorado June 21-28, 2021: Morrow Point Reservoir fishing boat approaches the Currecanti Needle in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River in a 3/4 panorama.
