Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
If you walk from the Garrison railroad station up the trail towards Glenclyffe and Arden Point you pass this small cluster of ruins. I couldn’t find much information about them other than a short mention on a couple of web sites saying that they were formerly a lock factory.
I liked the way the light streaming in through our kitchen window fell on this grouping of blue and white objects.
I’ve often noticed these ramshackle wooden shacks just off Route 301 between the Taconic State Parkway and Carmel, NY. I’ve also often thought that we should stop and take some pictures, but until now I haven’t done so.
There are three of them and I don’t know what they are/were or why they’re there. So far haven’t been able to find any additional information.
While taking a picture of the first shack above I decided that I might get a better shot if I was the other side of a stone wall. Unfortunately the only way to get to the other side was to climb over the wall. As I was doing so one of the stones turned under my foot. Luckily it didn’t fall on any part of my anatomy as it was a rather large stone. It did, however, twist my toe, which made walking painful for about a week and rather curtailed my photographic activities.
The view from the other side with the offending wall in the foreground. Unfortunately the picture is not too sharp. I was using an old Minolta manual focus lens and since I was in a fair bit of pain at the time I guess I wasn’t concentrating enough on getting the focus right.
I liked the variety of circles in the picture: the outer rim of the plate; the inner rim of the plate; the ice cream; whatever that thing (maybe a piece of dried apple) is on top of the ice cream; and the tart itself.
I also liked the contrast in textures: the smooth plate; the less smooth ice cream; the even less smooth dried apple (?) and the not at all smooth tart.
Also the contrast in colors: whites; off whites; yellowish brown; reddish brown.
Another one from our recent trip to Rockefeller Center.
This one seems to be called “Boatman unfurling a sail”. According to a post about the International Building on the Photops website:
Boatman Unfurling a Sail by Lee Oscar Lawrie, 1937.
This bas-relief limestone allegorical sculpture is located at the 19 West 50th Street entrance to the International Building. The boatman is working on the ship’s sails with the ship representing freedom. In the background are waves, represent the ocean, and the skyscrapers of New York.
Along with ‘Columbia greeting a woman‘ and ‘Swords into Plowshares‘ this panel forms part of a tryptch created by Lee Lawrie as an appeal for world peace. It depicts a brawny boatman at work on his ship, which symbolizes the means to freedom.
For more information on the tryptch see “The Way to ‘World Peace’”