Madnessmatrix | Eric Bowers Photography

One handheld RAW // HDR // Shutter: 1/125 // Aperture: f/16 // Focal Length: 24 mm // ISO 400

Apologies if the post title seems reminscent of a contradicted redundancy.

- an aerial shot above Lower Manhattan back in late October 2008. When going over the aerials when I got home to KC, I was really underwhelmed with my Lower Manhattan shots taken on more of an equal elevation with the skyline, as it seems kind of flat and dull without the long-gone World Trade Center towers poking out above. Things look far more interesting however, when you’re right on top of the whole area looking down from your rented mechanical falcon.

I’m also afraid that I’ve received word the whole area is to be glaciated over the course of possibly as little as a few thousand more years. But that’s real and serious business. Which brings me to something else - the none-too-infrequent occurrences of fictitious accounts of the destruction of New York City in whatever silly pop-culture dreck Hollywood decides to sputter forth any given summer. Just once I’d like to see an asteroid-impact-destruction-armageddon movie depict all the strip mall gulags and drive-thru fried meat shacks of American suburbia getting pummeled in the firestorms resulting from astronomical barrage, instead of the actual cities.

Incidentally I also understand that the movie “The Day After” had a lot of people fixated on the notion of Kansas City’s total annihilation into smithereens as well, back in those delicious days of the early eighties.