Upon arrival to the city, Ducki went on a photo shoot. It was tough to block away all of the paparazzo to get great shots, but we did our best. Thankfully, we brought along the talented photographic genius, Michelle Kirk, to capture the relationship the  made in America duck has with one of America’s best known and best loved cities.

The toughest shot to get was at Ground Zero as one of the part-time DANO2 staffers is also a firefighter whose friend was called in that fateful day. Both our staffer and Ducki sat in reverence to honor those valiant Americans who stepped up with nobility to save lives.

In Central Park, the ducks paid homage to the controversial literary great, J.D. Salinger. In his classic work, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caufield keeps asking where the ducks go in the winter- symbolically asking where he should go in the cold times of life. At the end of the book, he finds that the ducks migrate to southern California. This week, though, the ducks came from Southern California stuffed with tributes to Salinger and answers to the question “What does it mean to be an American teenager?” written by Carlsbad, CA high school students. Some of the highlights to those answers are as follows: “you get to eat as much fast food as you want. Good-bye J.D.”, “Freedom!!!! Thanks for Holden”, “You have to clean your room”,  and ” Lots of opportunity…if you do your homework.”

A few more of our favorite Ducki photojournal photos – click on thumbnails to view larger: