Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
A couple of pictures of my wife taken in 2009. I suppose the first one is technically better. In the second I’ve missed the focus. It should have been on the eyes, but instead it’s on the nose. Still in many ways I prefer it. To me it captures more of her character.
Taken with a Konica Minolta 5D and Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f1.7
About this time in 2013 I was on nearby Oscawana Heights road taking a picture of one of Putnam County’s stone chambers. This old house was almost directly across the road. Even then it looked as if it had been abandoned for some time. Since then I’ve passed by many times and noticed the gradual deterioration continuing. I went by again the other day, spotted the stone chamber and continued on. Then it occurred to me that I hadn’t seen the house. Maybe my attention had been elsewhere and I’d just missed it I thought, turning around to take another look. But I hadn’t missed it. It was just no longer there. Where it had once stood was just an empty, snow covered piece of land.
Another one bites the dust. Of course I don’t suppose it had any significant historical or architectural value and it was surely getting to be a dangerous piece of real estate. I guess it had to go, but I couldn’t help but think that this had once been someones home. People had probably been born and died there; celebrated good times and bad. And now after a short time it’s likely that nobody will remember that it was ever there. It’s all a bit sad.
Taken with a Sony NEX 5N and 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 OSS.
As we were about to leave I spotted this colorful skeleton. If I’m not mistaken it was a prop used by a vendor selling T-shirts. It seemed like a fitting parting shot.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
He didn’t last very long. Only seconds after I took this picture he was off. My wife and our friend Doreen look on to the right.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
The Ribfest is held at the Ulster County Fairgrounds. The Ulster County Fair’s Agricultural Museum is at the same location. Unfortunately it wasn’t open while we were there, but outside there were a number of pieces of old agricultural machinery.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.