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New York City (NYC) skyline looking East from New Jersey across the Hudson River at sunset. This was pretty much all I got from my attempts to find storms and lightening during the day / evening.

Nikon D3s - 24-70mm 2.8 (HDR - 9 exposures)

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A very long exposure view, with fog and rain rapidly rolling back in from South to North, from high above the city looking South towards the Empire State Building.

In the distance starting from left to right: a foreground building I don't know the name of, the Verrazano Bridge, 8 Spruce Street Tower / Beekman Tower / New York by Frank Gehry, World Trade Center Complex, Freedom Tower, and the One World Trade Center (One week after it topped the Empire State Building).

Nikon D3s - 24-70mm 2.8 (HDR - 9 exposures)

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A very long exposure view, with fog and rain rapidly rolling back in from South to North, from high above the city looking North-East towards the Avon / Solow Building, Central Park, 5th Avenue, Bloomberg Building, and Citigroup Center.

Interesting backstory on the Citigroup Center Building (green inclinated one) from skyscraperpage.com:

• Being one of the first buildings in NYC to break out of the International 'box' style, the structure is supported by four exterior megacolumns at the center of each side and an octagonal core. This arrangement permited the developers to construct a large tower overtop of St. Peter's Lutheran Church where columns would otherwise reside. Additional air-rights were purchased from the church and allowed the tower to become one of the tallest in the city. The four corners are cantilevered 72' beyond the edge of the columns which rise 114' above the plaza to the first office floor.

• This column arrangement is not without its problems though and the behaviour of the lateral load resisting system was unwittingly changed as a result of the contrator's suggestion to substitute bolted for welded connections.

• It was only after completion of the tower that the original designer suspected a potential danger in the bolted connection and convinced the owners to undertake strengthening the joints. The tower's bolted joints were too weak to withstand 70mph wind. During the summer of 1978, work crews welded plate reinforcing to key diagonals to make the structure safe. Six weeks into the repair Hurricane Ella heading right for New York City and the tower was only half done with the repairs. The City was just hours away from disaster but luckily Hurricane Ella turned eastward away from the city giving the constructon workers enough time to fix the tower. Even though nothing happened the crisis was kept hidden from the public for almost 20 years.

Nikon D3s - 24-70mm 2.8 (HDR - 7 exposures)

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A very long exposure view, with fog and rain rapidly rolling back in from South to North, from high above the city looking South-East towards 383 Madison Building, the MetLife Building, and the Chrysler Building.

Nikon D3s - 24-70mm 2.8 (HDR - 5 exposures)

© 2012 Steve Kelley

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A very long exposure view, with fog and rain rapidly rolling back in from South to North, from high above the city looking South towards the Empire State Building.

In the distance starting from left to right: a foreground building I don't know the name of, the Verrazano Bridge, 8 Spruce Street Tower / Beekman Tower / New York by Frank Gehry, World Trade Center Complex, Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center (One week after it topped the Empire State Building), and the top of the Goldman Sachs Tower in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Nikon D3s - 24-70mm 2.8 (HDR - 9 exposures)