Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I was walking the dog around the Jefferson Valley Mall (in my opinion arguably the worst mall I’ve ever encountered) when I saw what looked like the figure, possibly of a homeless person, poking it’s head into a clothing drop container. Of course it was’t. Someone had taken a blanket (or something) and stuffed it into an already blocked opening. But from a certain angle…
Taken with a Iphone 5S.
A Facebook friend posted the above picture along with the comment: ‘That “serious” feeling when you put down your smartphone and pick up a real camera…’ Although he’s a camera aficianado he didn’t mention what camera it was. After searching around on the internet for a while I found a number of instances where this picture appeared and in them it was referred to as a “Kodak K-24 US Air Force Camera with Aero-Ektar f2.5, 178 mm, 5×5 lens”. I posted this information to a vintage camera Facebook group to which I belong and was soon informed that this was not the case. One member joked “I am fairly sure that is either not a K24 or the man is about 3 feet tall.” Apparently the K24 is a much smaller camera than this one. The post elicited quite a few comments, many of them quite funny, but eventually one of the members solved the puzzle.
The camera is a Fairchild K-17.
Obviously I didn’t take the picture, nor do I know who did.
Today is February 7 and we’ve had another gloomy, cold day with snow, sleet and freezing rain. It’s all getting to be a bit tiresome so I’ve decided to dig something out that will remind me of warmer, more colorful days gone by and in the hope that they will soon come again (since we’re supposed to go to Las Vegas in the not too distant future this might well be the case). Taken during a vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands back in 2011.
Taken with a Panasonic Lumix ZS3.
While my wife was taking an exercise class I walked the dog around her club’s parking lot. In a distant corner I came across a disembodied revolving door. Seemed like a strange place for it! Portal to another dimension? Did The Doctor finally manage to get his chameleon circuit working?
Taken with an iPhone 5s.
Last September I went for a walk in Granite Knolls Park in Yorktown, NY. According to Geocaching:
The property has a long history, including having once been farmland, owned by the Jesuits, and part of the same property which is now the Phoenix Academy on the other side of Stony Street.
Slices of granite lie scattered near the centerpiece of the park – a large glacier erratic, also known as the “Giant Boulder”. Single track trails pass through many small quarries and remnants of quarry operations can be seen along a woods road. Rumor has it, that if you climb to the top of the “Giant Boulder” you can find the names of some of the quarry workers etched into the stone.
Scattered around the woods are a number of pieces of rusting machinery, no doubt the remains of equipment used for quarrying.
There is evidence of quarrying everywhere, but the most spectacular is the “Giant Boulder” mentioned above. Even though I didn’t see the boulder during this walk, I’ve included a picture (see picture below) from a previous visit in April, 2014. The picture doesn’t really do it justice. It’s huge and judging from the large boulders around it a lot has already been cut off. This is a view of one face of the boulder. It stretches back behind for quite some distance.
All pictures but the last one taken with a Sony RX100 M1. The last picture (of the giant boulder) was taken with a Sony RX100 M3.