Briarcliff Manor, NY – Benches in the Snow in Law Park

The title says it all. Unfortunately more snow, but even though I’m finding winter tiresome there is something quite magical about recently fallen snow. It washes out all the colors and makes the scenes essentially monochromatic. I love black and white imagery and with these winter scenes it’s almost unnecessary to convert them to black and white. In this case I also liked the curves implied by the arrangement of the benches.

In many ways I prefer the second image below with it’s two curves: the benches and the border of the now iced over and snow covered pond. Unfortunately it’s too tightly cropped at the top. I would have preferred to have had more room above the benches. I suspect that the only way to get this would have been to have gotten higher (to hide the distracting background when I wanted only snow) and unfortunately there was nothing convenient for me to stand on.

Old Building in Briarclilff Manor

Yet more pictures taken while walking the dog. Main street, Briarcliff Manor (otherwise known as Pleasantville Road) has a small number of shops, restaurants, municipal buildings etc. on either side of the road. I often take the dog for a walk there on Saturdays and then pass through this area on the way to Moonbean Cafe for a coffee while I wait for my wife to finish her dance class. On this particular day I decided that, for a change, rather than walk along the main road I’d walk behind the stores on one side of the road. As I did I came across this building. It looks fairly old and seems completely out of place with the other relatively modern buildings. I have not idea what it’s purpose is – maybe storage for one of the shops? It looks more like the kind of old red barn you’d find in a rural area rather than something you’d find tucked behind a shopping area.

Bali III: Temples

Pura Ulun Danu Bratan Temple

In an earlier post (Bali II: Around Ubud) I mentioned that I was disappointed because I knew I had taken pictures of some quite spectacular temples in Bali, but was able to find neither the negatives nor the prints. I later added a note that while going through some moving boxes I had found both the prints and the negatives. So here are some scanned images of the aforesaid temples.

Pura Luhur Uluwatu Temple

Pura Besakih Temple

Another temple – I can’t remember its name.

Pura Tanah Lot Temple

Goa Gajah Temple

Hinges

Not much to say about this. It was taken in the men’s room at a nearby Barnes and Noble. The shiny metallic hinges (against the textured divider) caught my attention as well as their almost but not quite symmetrical shape.