I liked the smoothness of the metal and the somewhat abstract composition.
Architectural Detail
Snow Covered Swimming Pool
Our local park has a kind of pavilion (somewhere with tables where you hold events, eat your food etc.) overlooking the town pool. I was in the pavilion looking down on the now frozen and snow-covered pool when I saw this structure – presumably a frame to attach a diving board to. It seemed so incongruous and diving from it in the heat of the summer seemed so far away. Diving from it in the heat of the summer seemed so far away.
Gypsy
I’ve posted quite a few pictures of our late dog, Jackson and also some of our current dog, Harley. But I post very few pictures of our cat, Gypsy. This is largely because I rarely produce a good one. Because she’s black I find it hard to get the exposure right and she tends to move around a lot – and I’m not good at taking pictures of anything that’s moving. Or she stays still only long enough for me to look for a camera and then scampers off just as I find it.
This time, however, she sat down right next to where I was working on the computer – with a camera right next to me so I was able to get off a few shots before she took off.
Cats are fundamentally evil :-). They’re cute and fuzzy on the outside, but inside they’re ruthless killers. Anyone who has seen them play with a terrified mouse before killing it knows this. Just look at her expression. It reminds me of the famous picture of Goebbels taken by Eisenstaedt. Eisenstaedt catches him in an unguarded moment and you can just see the evil inside (not that he was particularly warm and fuzzy in other pictures). Cats are like that. I once heard a joke: why are there seeing eye dogs, but not seeing eye cats. Because a cat would take you out into the middle of the road and leave you there. That about sums it up. I still love them though.
Views from Ossining Library
Ossining and Route 9 looking North.
I’ve lived in Briarcliff Manor, which is part of the town of Ossining, for about 17 years and have never once been to the Ossining library. I’d agreed to meet someone there and after we had met I decided to go inside and take a look around. Briarcliff has it’s one library housed in what used to be a train station. A few years ago it was enlarged. It’s a nice little library, but not in the same class as this one. As you approach Ossining going south on Route 9 you can see the library. It’s an imposing building up on a bluff overlooking Ossining and the the Hudson river. It’s quite modern and seems to spread over at least three floors. Apart from the study tables each floor has small reading areas with comfortable chairs. There’s also a periodicals reading area (I believe it was dedicated to John Cheever, the famous author who was a resident of Ossining from 1956 to 1982). This area had it’s own fireplace. The staff were friendly. All in all a very impressive library. The views from the library are superb.
Through a window.
Another view through the window with the Hudson River and the Pallisades in the background.
New York Times Exposes Peter Lik Photography Scheme – artnet News
An earlier post reported on the new world’s most expensive photo. The New York Times questions this claim as it does Mr. Lik’s entire method of work.
Peter Lik may claim to have sold the world’s most expensive photo, with the $6.5 million Phantom (see $6.5 Million Landscape Is World’s Most Expensive Photo), but the artist is artificially inflating his market. (This is not the kind of cheating we had in mind in the story Does Photography Help Artists Cheat?)
via New York Times Exposes Peter Lik Photography Scheme – artnet News.
Some other interesting links:
Is That $6.5 Million Photo Sale for Real? Probably Not!
Artist Jeff Frost Inches Past Recently Set World Record for Most Expensive Photograph Ever Sold