Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
We’ve been tidying up the garden in our house in Briarcliff Manor and I was cutting back some roses near the gazebo when I noticed the light shining on a old vase with some artificial flowers in it. I liked the effect and shooting through the screen seemed to add a kind of soft focus effect.
These are the result of sitting around in our kitchen while playing with my new toy: A Konica 50mm f1.7 AR. I’d earlier obtained two other Konica lenses: a 135mm and a 28mm. I’d been very impressed by the 135mm (I haven’t tried the 28mm yet) and I’d heard good things about the 50mm. They’re so inexpensive I decided to get one. It was pretty dark in the kitchen and I’m impressed with the results.
I’ve been to Little Stony Point before, but I’ve always stayed at the level of the Hudson. This time I went up a bit higher to the top of the cliffs, which were higher than I had thought. The views were really quite impressive.
Came across these on the cliffs at Little Stony Point.
We’d been on vacation in Hawaii and on the way back we stopped to see my wife’s family, much of which lives in Los Angeles and our daughter, Jasmine who was also in LA at that time. I covered this in an earlier post. We were driving along the coast near Malibu and stopped at a place called “Neptunes Net” for some food. While we were eating I noticed wind surfers across the road and took this picture.