A pohutukawa tree at Mission Bay in Auckland.

Rangitoto Island, off Auckland. I liked the way the clouds seemed to be symmetrically positioned over the island. OK, so it didn’t come out quite that way in the photo.

The view from my apartment window on my return to New York after September 11. The twin towers used to be a prominent feature of my view, but in this photo a column of smoke indicates the site where they once stood.

The World Trade Center from the Staten Island ferry.

My brother Tony and his wife Pat on the Brooklyn Bridge.

If I could see the top of the Empire State Building from my old apartment, then it follows that I could see the apartment from the top of the Empire State Building. The apartment is right in the middle of this picture.

The Guggenheim Museum. One of the strangest aspects of the building is that it is tucked in between conventional buildings on either side. It’s like walking round the supermarket and finding a Fabergé egg amongst the soap powder.

Magnolia Stellata in central park, near the back of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was so pathetically grateful to see spring flowers after a long, cold winter that I took a number of these photos.

Shane’s nephew Darin and his girlfriend Tiffany outside the New York Stock Exchange.

The view out of my old apartment window on a clear day in January. Yes, that’s the Empire State Building just visible behind the water towers. And yes, that’s snow on the rooftops opposite.