The Financial District. One of the global epicenters for trading resides neatly in the southern most tip of Manhattan. New York aerial photographer's have dubbed this frame "The Money Shot". This take on "The Money Shot" is taken just a little lower than normal for a high altitude flight, but I feel the angle really accentuates the speed of which we are moving, as well as the corresponding lines of the Hudson River and the Clouds above. The skid of the helicopter in the frame also provides a first person POV that is rarely given in these types of images. In order to create these images, I am hanging out of an open-door helicopter, in all weather and temps, sometimes at speeds up to 90 m...