It’s not often you get to enjoy
The Manhattan skyline with ducks (and a big cruise ship).
If you get up before the crack of dawn,
And drive to the New Jersey shoreline
(These shots are taken from Hoboken),
You may be lucky enough
To enjoy the gold of the rising sun
As ducks wheels in the sky
Over wooden pilings
Before honking farewell
As they fly away.
For more sunny moments, please visit: Skywatch.
Lady Fi 
Wow, that is gorgeous. All that color.
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What amazing shots! So great to be able to see the sun over the city
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Love those ducks against the skyline Fiona 💜
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I cannot argue with you there getting up to watch the sunrise and a great setting too
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Such lovely views. Love the ducks.
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Absolutely gorgeous photos!
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It’s best if those ducks (or any birds) stay out of airplane engines. You must remember the magnificent landing of airline Capt. Sullenberger on the Hudson River a few years ago, now a motion picture in the States. (Movie entitled “Sully.)
I love your ducks in flight and the play of sunlight on the water. We are enjoying ducks & geese on the lake behind our house – so serene. Thanks, Fiona.
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I do remember that amazing landing!
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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Glorious!
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So beautiful! Lovely morning images.
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Well worth the early morning wake up ! I saw some ducks fly by last evening but they were gone before I could grab them!
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lovely shots!! :O)
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Beautiful shots! We currently have geese flying overhead here that are making their way south for the winter. 🙂
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Hoboken has stunning views, check out Stevens Institute of Technology
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Wonderful…love the birds in flight.
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Marvelous photos of the Manhattan skyline and skywatch too. The ducks are great !
Best regards, Synnöve
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Gorgeous morning pics!!!
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I absolutely, positively love that first shot.
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What wonderful shots of the Manhattan skyline with those ducks and the gorgeous reflections. It makes me want to visit this amazing city again! I lived for two years in White Plains, New York.
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My very favorite city, and you have captured it so beautifully here!
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Absolutely stunning….each and EVERY photo. Wow.
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Beautiful, interesting touch with the ducks!
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Brilliant photographs Fi.
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Absolutely stunning got the photos and the skyline and the wonderful sky
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Hello, lovely view of the NYC skyline and the sunrise. The ducks are an added bonus, great captures. Happy Skywayching, have a happy weekend ahead!
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These photos are really magnificent!
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So very nice to meet you – thank you for stopping by my blog. Your photos are extraordinary. I live in north GA and I hope to join you soon with photos.
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What a beautiful picture! We stayed in New Jersey the last time I was in NYC, about eight years ago. It was much cheaper and there was a ferry that took us right over to the city. It was awesome! (Aside from the $50 five-minute ride from the airport to the hotel…that was a ripoff!)
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Så fantastisk soloppgang !
Spesielt flott med endene i lufta.
Nydelige bilder.
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Just beautiful. Again.
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oh, that’s awesome! just beautiful!
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Beautiful – that’s a skyline angle I’ve not seen in real life as I usually approach NYC from the Long Island side.
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Being someone who absolutely ADORES New York City, these photographs put a HUGE smile on my face. They are all STUNNING!
Love how you captured the strong reflection of the sun off that building.
I especially like the view of Manhattan from Hoboken because you get the BEST view of Lower Manhattan!
Thanks for sharing, my friend, and have a lovely weekend!
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Well done … you have amazing talent my friend.
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This is great. I can tell this is going to lead to conflict in the family when we go to NYC cuz I will have to get to Hoboken early in the morning to see this for myself.
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Definitely worth it! I was there before 6 am!
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Fantastic captures.
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Really beautiful shots of the skyline! I like the golden glow reflected off the buildings.
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Great sky
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Beautiful. I grew up in New York State, but rarely got to the big city.
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Beautiful shots!
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Beautiful series of photographs.
Best regards, Irma
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So beautiful fotos!
Best, Maje
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Hello Dear Fiona
As usual, beautiful photos.
I am delighted.
I kiss and wish you a happy weekend.
Lucja
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You definitely got up and were out at just the right time on this day. These photos really are pretty. Love the water in the first one. Thanks for your visit to my blog.
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Gorgeous!
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Superb captures on the magnificent rise of sun and the brilliance of light… and the cruise ship on the foreground transforms the scenario into wonderful
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Such beautiful light and shinning water! They are gorgeous. Especially, I like the third one.
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A gorgeous set of pictures!
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Another series of wonderful images !
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A stunning city skyline
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A view for morning people everywhere!
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i lived in hoboken for a year and i always said that it had the best views of the city. these are beautiful. i don’t miss living there though. or working in nyc….
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were they ducks or seagulls? uuummmmm, i wonder .. nevertheless these are fabulous photos/images
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There was a big flock of ducks on the water right next to the park where we were in Hoboken and when my friend’s dog ran towards them, they flew up and that is how I got shots of the ducks.
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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So beautiful photos and what a great morning it must have been! I really like this peaceful view of the big city.
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How lucky are we that you got up early to take these incroyable images Fiona, merci beaucoup!
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A very successful series of the rising sun and a great cityscape enhanced with flying birds.
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Pays to wake up early, isn’t it? Such beautiful impressions of the big city.
Worth a Thousand Words
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one of my favorite spots, you were there at the perfect time!! there is a ruth chris steakhouse right by there, it is my go to steak place!!!
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great !!!
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Spectacular photos. Great comp.
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pictures sublime, but the city, I do not like !!
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Lovely that the sun shines through that spot. I do love that city.
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Worth getting up for – a lovely, peaceful view of a very busy place!
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I love every single one of those photos!
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these are quite unusual to be from Manhattan. Loved to see them. Thanks for sharing.
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I can just hear them quaking to the lapping of the water. Excellent verbal and visual capture.
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Amazing shots, Fi. The ducks were a real bonus. 🙂
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Great skyline shots and of the ducks flying. I can almost hear them too. Today I heard the geese honking as they flew overhead. It is one of my favorite sounds.
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Lovely clicks Lady F
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I can’t helb being amazed at the ‘cleanness’ of these shots. Beautifully done.
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Actually, few people helb well nowadays. Possibly meant ‘help’.
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Great shots – and (of course) I think the birds had so much to these shots.
Cheers – Stewart M – Melbourne
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A nice reward for getting up early…nice shots.
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Skyline was taken in that golden moment but the ducks flying makes the shot a perfect 10.
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Gorgeous! 🙂
Greetings from London.
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They are all beautiful!
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Such great images.
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Todo o contexto na imagem é especial, navio, mar, aves, mas o dourado do sol, refletido nos edifícios é maravilhoso.
Lady Fi, deixo um beijo e o desejo de dias felizes.
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Gorgeous sunrise photos over Manhattan—worth the early rise and drive to New Jersey!
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Beautiful series, awesome light, colors and skyline photos
The first photo is wonderful with the ducks and the cruis ship, well done
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agréable avec ce soleil
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Wonderful scenery with ducks and so warm lights, as well! So wonderful!
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Wonderful pics.
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Incredibly beautiful….images and scenery!
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so beautiful and a lovely moment 🙂
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What a beautiful photos !!!
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Beautiful — one of the perks for being an early riser.
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it seems so calm in the big city, so paradoxal…
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Well, this was around 5 am so not that many people were up and about.
Lady Fi wrote: > >
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i sogni fioriscono all’0alba!!!!!!!!!
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Your photography is just stunning. I am really enjoying catching up with them all.
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