On the Newburgh Waterfront

by Posted in Wildlife & Animals Leave a comment
newburghwaterfront-1

Getting our ducks (or mostly geese) in a row.

As mentioned in the previous post March 31 was my wife’s Birthday. Since she’s fond of fish and all kinds of seafood we thought we’d try Captain Jake’s Restaurant on the Newburgh waterfront. After a nice meal: Surf and Turf for my wife and a Ribeye steak for me we took our dog for a short walk along the waterfront. Our previous dog would have chased the birds, but not Harley. He just calmly walked by them.

newburghwaterfront-2

Geese and ducks on the river.

newburghwaterfront-3

I wonder what they all found so interesting and why the mallard at the bottom didn’t. Obviously he’s too busy grooming.

My wife took these pictures with her iphone 5s. I provided support through post-processing.

Taconic State Parkway around Yorktown Heights

by Posted in Black & White, Landscapes Leave a comment
taconic-1

This stretch of the Taconic State Parkway has often caught my interest- it’s something about the way in which it curves around through the trees. But for various reasons (It was inconvenient; I didn’t have a camera ready to hand; I just forgot) I’ve never taken a picture of it. This time my wife was driving, I had my camera nearby and, perhaps most importantly, I remembered to take the picture rather than talking to my wife, or listening to music on the radio.

Learned Something New Today: Film Swaps

by Posted in Film, Photography, Thoughts Leave a comment

Film Swap Result

One of the people who follow me on Flickr today “faved” some of my pictures so I thought I’d take a look at some of hers. I noticed that a number of her albums were entitled “Film swap with person XXX”; “Film swap with person YYY” etc. I took a look and I could see that they were something to do with multiple exposures, but I wasn’t exactly sure how the process worked so I dug a bit deeper.

Read More

Rockwood Hall – Evening

by Posted in Landscapes Leave a comment
rockwoodhallevening-1

This was taken around 8:00 pm in July, 2012. The sun was low over the horizon – going down over the Hudson Highlands. I’d been looking at the river, but my walk took me in the opposite direction where this wonderful evening sunlight was shining into the trees. I’ve enhanced the colors a little – but not very much.

Taken with a Sony NEX5N and 55mm f2.8 Industar 61, the lens that came with the FED 2 camera that started my camera collection. In those days I didn’t really understand how focus magnification and focus peaking worked and so had some difficulty getting really precise focusing. This one isn’t too bad though.