{"id":654,"date":"2015-07-05T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gowanuscag.org\/?p=654"},"modified":"2015-07-05T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T19:32:49","slug":"a-photographer-finds-abundant-life-in-and-around-the-gowanus-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gowanuscag.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/05\/a-photographer-finds-abundant-life-in-and-around-the-gowanus-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Photographer Finds Abundant Life in and Around the Gowanus Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gowanuscag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EgretMiska-Draskoczy.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" height=\"562\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-655\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gowanuscag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EgretMiska-Draskoczy.png?resize=564%2C562\" alt=\"Egret:Miska Draskoczy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gowanuscag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EgretMiska-Draskoczy.png?w=564&amp;ssl=1 564w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gowanuscag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EgretMiska-Draskoczy.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gowanuscag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EgretMiska-Draskoczy.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gowanuscag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EgretMiska-Draskoczy.png?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gowanuscag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EgretMiska-Draskoczy.png?resize=151%2C150&amp;ssl=1 151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a>\n<p class=\"lead\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the July 3, 2015 edition of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/05\/nyregion\/a-photographer-finds-abundant-life-in-and-around-the-gowanus-canal.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The photos here are part of an exhibition called \u201cGowanus Wild,\u201d which will be at the Brooklyn Public Library until Sept. 25. Already they are documents of a vanishing world. Since Mr. Draskoczy started shooting in 2012, most of the sites he photographed have been torn down or swept away for new development, he said. Once-empty streets now bustle with baby strollers and bar patrons. But the other night he ventured down to the end of Huntington Street, where he had photographed the egret. The tree was still there, and in it, on the same branch, was an egret.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Photo: Miska Draskoczy<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From the July 3, 2015 edition of The New York Times: The photos here are part of an exhibition called \u201cGowanus Wild,\u201d which will be at the Brooklyn Public&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/gowanuscag.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/05\/a-photographer-finds-abundant-life-in-and-around-the-gowanus-canal\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read A Photographer Finds Abundant Life in and Around the Gowanus Canal\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,68],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage","category-gowanus-life","tag-gowanus-canal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Photographer Finds Abundant Life in and Around the Gowanus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gowanuscag.org\/index.php\/2015\/07\/05\/a-photographer-finds-abundant-life-in-and-around-the-gowanus-canal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photographer Finds Abundant Life in and Around the Gowanus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; From the July 3, 2015 edition of The New York Times: The photos here are part of an exhibition called \u201cGowanus Wild,\u201d which will be at the Brooklyn Public... 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