New York is the city of my youth. In 1986, after twelve years in San Francisco, I returned to live there. When I set out to photograph I never know what will happen. If I stay home I wonder what I will miss. In October 1992 I was feeling gloomy and having trouble getting out the door. The “Blessing of the Animals" at Cathedral Saint John the Divine was just blocks away. I forced myself and was rewarded—not just with a few photographs, but I also I met my future wife and we have been together ever since.