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I mentioned a couple of weeks back that Bluejake is coming up second or third on a whole range of September 11th Photo queries on Google. This has resulted in a significant increase in site traffic during the last month; for instance, about 600 people dropped by Bluejake today. Now of course, most of these people are only looking at the September 11th Polaroids, but some stick around to look at other galleries, including the one featuring the March 11th Polaroids. Some visitors even leave comments- so far mostly high school kids.

Even without the traffic explosion, September 11th would still be on my mind. That is a stupid thing to write- obviously everyone is thinking about the same thing. It's not just the endless rehash of footage on every channel, or special issues of every newspaper and magazine- there's something almost contagious about it. Every conversation this week comes around to it eventually, even if it is just to remember what a ridiculously bad year it has been for all of us. I'm not just speaking of the friends and colleagues I'm running into south of 14th Street in Manhattan- I mean it has been a bad year for the whole human race.

Anyway, with all this in mind, I went down to Ground Zero this afternoon to take some pictures. This is the description I wrote for the Photos landing page: "I had been down to Ground Zero a couple of times during the past year, but until today, September 9th, I never thought of bringing my camera. I just didn't think there would be anything to shoot- just a giant featureless void. I was afraid I would capture nothing more than the banality of a giant construction site, and that would demean everything that happened. Instead, I found some shots that really surprised me. Take a look."

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