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New York City from the air

Above Santiago, Chile

Cerro Altar and Cerro El Plomo from the top of Cerro Manquehue, Chile

Santiago de Chile, April 2018. Smog so thick you can see it. From the top of Cerro Manquehue, 5500 ft.   

The immense construction site for Mexico City’s new airport. This is what it looks like a minute after taking off from the old one.

The northeastern outskirts of Beijng from the air, March 2018 

Corsica, summer. Spy would not go home until the last of her humans returned from swimming or windsurfing or fishing. She waited on the beach, looking out at the horizon, and then trotted back to the house with us, as scruffy and salty as everybody else.

Capo Corso, a late afternoon in midsummer

Corsica, on a windy day

Corsican Waves

Swiss and Italian Alps, February 2018 

He was the real deal: He and his friend spoke knowledgeably about Boeings, reminisced about stories from deployments, talked about how “the military puts the aviation industry to shame” when it comes to partying. Contractors, I thought. They were fun to listen to, and surprisingly un-straight — “I smoked dope with a lieutenant colonel in the Philippines! Ah shoulda been in jail!” — but what I kept going back to was, this is his base. These are his people. And they’re hating on him, hard.

Long Island from above on a clear night, out the window of a flight to Milan.

Two cameras, a passport, 10 euros, and a credit card: You don’t need anything else to travel. (Toothbrush not pictured. Back from a week in Italy, North Africa and the Middle East.)

One World Trade Center on a windy December afternoon, from the Sunset Park waterfront in Brooklyn.

La Guardia is really an urban airport, sandwiched between Queens on the left and the Bronx on the right. In the middle, the Rikers Island prison complex is an ominous presence.