The Tall Ships

© Peter Sackett

I've been building scale models of assorted structures over the past few weeks, and I'd just finished one of a postwar high-rise apartment.

I took this picture very casually, with my crappy three-year-old iPhone, and I sort of liked the result because it reminded me of the time we stayed with my grandparents in their apartment at Sutton Place South in New York to watch the tall ships sail down the East River, in 1976.

Though that apartment faces the river, this view offers some of the flavour of what it felt like to peer down at the street from the penthouse.