( 2025.02.18 )

Three Minutes over Manhattan

Top of the Rock, New York · 5:31 – 5:34 PM

Sixty-some floors up, a February dusk — three minutes between the sun letting go of the towers and the whole island turning blue, kept by the little camera that lives in my coat pocket.

Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS · three frames

Central Park Tower catching the sunset, the view doubled in the observation deck glass

01 / 03

5:31 pm

Through the Glass

The deck’s window doubles the sunset, so Central Park Tower holds the last of it twice.

Top of the Rock · 6.2mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/200 · ISO 80

The Empire State Building and One World Trade against a band of orange at the horizon

03 / 03

5:34 pm

One Vanderbilt

Three minutes in, the pink climbed to the very tips of the towers, and then it was gone.

Top of the Rock
6.2mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/60 · ISO 80

One Vanderbilt catching the last pink light, the Chrysler Building at its shoulder

( about )

I’m Isabella Zhou. Photography lends me wings toward a dreamland I haven’t found yet, and these journals are what I carry back from the flights. This journal is proof that Manhattan wore pink for three minutes and let it go, kept on the pocket Canon I carry everywhere.

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isabellayifan.zhou@gmail.com