The Consulting Photographer

Stolen Locations    The fact that the Homeland Security helicopter was spinning round with its nose pointed down at the water… like that thing helicopters do on TV when they're mad at someone… was alarming. The fact that everyone in it was looking directly at us, and some of them were holding automatic weapons, was more alarming. "wrap, wrap, wrap!" I called out to our tiny crew of  3….    The homeland security helicopter was actually the third helicopter that buzzed around the Statue of Liberty that morning while we were shooting “What If All Doors Were Open To All” for a major accounting firm.  The first two were relatively germane – but this one wasn’t kidding. It was much closer and much, much lower. Eye level to where we were standing… and it was full of men in helmets. We had seen a park ranger give us something like the side eye a few minutes before in civilian clothes, walkie-talkie on his belt… And we knew time was pretty short….  ...