Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Taken the other day after a recent snow storm. Although I did remember to change the focus to continuous autofocus I was so excited to see him running in the snow that I forgot to change the shutter speed to something higher. So I got quite a lot of blur in most of the shots. This is one of the less blurry ones. Taken with a Sony alpha 500 and Tamron 18-250mm.
Taken August 2012 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It’s certainly by Alberto Giacometti, but I’m not entirely sure what it’s called. I believe it’s Tall Figure III.
Another one from Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. I was walking the dog in the snow and I went behind this building. I noticed the stained glass window, which of course from the outside didn’t look too special. It occurred to me that if I went around to the front there might be a way of seeing into this mausoleum and getting the light shining through this window. Sure enough there was a entrance door with a couple of small windows. This is the view through one of the windows.
A while back I joined a Facebook group: The Hudson Valley in Pictures. One of the first pictures I posted got what seemed to me to be a very large number of “likes” (probably because the groups I usually belong too are much smaller than this one). This was pleasing. However, as I looked at the group more I noticed that while there are some extremely good pictures, there are also many that are quite mediocre – including some that got more “likes” than mine. This was a bit of a “downer” and I stopped posting to the group for a while. Recently I saw a picture of a few deer at the side of a road. It wasn’t particularly well exposed, or composed but it had a large number of “likes”. So I thought I’d post the color version of the above picture, a not too startling shot I’d taken at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – just to see how it would do.
Now intellectually I know that the number of “likes” has little to do with the intrinsic worth of the photograph. However, as the notifications started coming in fast and furious I couldn’t help but feel my enthusiasm getting going. Would they keep going up? Would it surpass my previously best “liked” picture (it hasn’t done so far. After a fast start it seems to have stopped short of my record).
Silly isn’t it?
A Sleepy Hollow website describes the church as follows:
Founded around 1685, this is the church and churchyard that appear in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” It is often confused with the adjacent but separate Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
The church’s 3-acre burying ground is, of course, the purported haunt of the headless horseman, and also the resting place of local citizens who likely inspired Irving’s characters of Katrina Van Tassel, Brom Bones, and others in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
More information can be found on Wikipedia.
I’ve taken pictures of the church before, but somehow was never happy with them. Somehow the angle wasn’t right. I’d never thought to go to the front of the church and walk a little north. I much prefer this angle.