{"id":100,"date":"2010-09-11T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-09-11T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T09:07:18","slug":"in-memory-of-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/in-memory-of-911","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the 9th year of the September 11 attacks on Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City. The attack left the 2 majestic towers in rubble and killed more than 2,000 people.<\/p>\n

Back in 1998, I was in Manhattan, New York to attend the now-defunct Internet World. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to make a trip to the towers back then, and I’ll never be able to. What I did have is a photograph taken from the Empire State Building towards the direction of the towers. This was shot on crappy Kodak Max 400 film and scanned using a Nikon Coolscan III. There was quite a bit of haze on that morning.<\/p>\n

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New York City circa 1998 showing the Twin Towers and barely showing the Statue of Liberty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2005, I had the opportunity to visit Manhattan again for the Search Engine Strategies<\/a> event. I simply had to take another shot of the same view. This time, instead of fog, I get quite bad backlighting.<\/p>\n

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New York City circa 2005, after the Sep 11 attacks in 2001.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2 days later, I visited ground zero. and noticed this cross. According to what I hear from a nearby guide, this was part of the scaffolding of the building and was found, as if by miracle, as it is now, in the shape of a cross. It was then erected as a memorial to the people who have perished in the disaster.<\/p>\n

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911 Cross at the Ground Zero site of the Twin Towers in Manhattan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those people who have died in the attacks, I hope they rest in peace. Let’s hope that such terrorist attacks will not happen anywhere, anytime and let the world be a better place to live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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