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Photos: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

For the first time in my weird career as a photojournalist I covered the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. My photographer friends and colleagues all sighed and said that they were thankful that they didn’t have to do it. They were weirded out a bit more when I said I had volunteered for the gig.

So when I woke up at 7am (realistically a bit too late) I jumped on the subway uptown with a bit of apprehension and exhaustion, I had been covering a protest until about 10pm the night before. After talking my way into the gated off parade perimeter, which included two layers of metal barricades and a metric ton of NYPD, I stood in the middle of Central Park West looking a giant squirrel chasing an acorn. And thus began the most fun I’ve had shooting an assignment in quite a while.

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4 Responses to “Photos: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade”
  1. Cool beans, Zach. Looks like it was fun.

  2. pinwheel says:

    Thanx for the pics. Looks like it was a good day. Most grateful there were any incidents. Be safe, n

  3. slipstream says:

    OMG! Snoopy has been beheaded!

  4. Zyxomma says:

    The only time I ever attended was bringing kids from institutions to see the parade from the safety of second-floor windows. It was the 70s; the parade was much smaller. Glad you had a fun assignment, Zach.