Taken from a southbound Metro North train passing under the bridge.
Taken with a Sony RX100 VII
Under The Tappan Zee Bridge
Bookwright
I’ve always enjoyed making photobooks, but until now I’ve only used the Book Module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic. It’s great the way that Lightroom integrates the Book Module with Blurb, but it doesn’t have all of the functionality (especially in relation to text) that another tool has.
Bookwright is Blurb’s own book making tool. In many was it offers the same (and more) capabilities as the Lightroom Book Module, and it’s just about as easy to use, which makes it pretty simple to transition from one to the other.
I downloaded the software yesterday, and within a couple of hours I was able to create a simple ‘Zine’ and upload it to Blurb for production.
Only then did I start looking at tutorials (there area lot of them) on YouTube.
I came across a video of an online workshop given by Daniel Milnor to be particularly interesting. In it he takes you through the creation of a Trade Book. Much of this this I already knew, but there were a number of tips on using the Bookwright software than I had missed and found very useful.
I also found his suggestions on how to create a better photobook to be extremely useful.
A Visit to Cold Spring, NY – Inside an “antiques” store
Cold Spring has a number of interesting shops. Some might call them “Antique” Stores, but I fear that if you’re looking for valuable, high quality, vintage wares you might (with a few exceptions) be disappointed.
Rather than call them “Antique” stores, it might be more accurate to call them “Bric-à-brac” stores, i.e. small decorative objects of various types and of no great value. You typically find old books, records, cds, videos, photographs, old equipment (e.g. cameras) and dolls etc.
Still, some of these pieces have a certain charm of their own.
Taken with a Sony RX10 IV.
A Visit to Cold Spring, NY – A small park adjoining The Depot
This small park is right next to The Depot. I’ve never been entirely sure whether it’s part of the restaurant or not.
It can be a pleasant place to sit in warm weather, but its main claim to fame is probably the plaque seen in the last two pictures. In case you can’t see it well it reads:
GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON
In frequent visits to the American
Troops encamped nearby during the
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION
Drank at this spring and gave it its name
COLD SPRING
I wonder if this claim is verifiable, or if it’s just a variation on the “George Washington, slept here” theme.
Taken with a Sony RX10 IV.
A Visit to Cold Spring, NY – The Depot
We used to go to The Depot often, largely because they allow dogs in the outside area.
The Depot was a Hudson River line station from 1893 to 1954. After spending 18 years as a car dealership, the Restaurant opened in 1972 and has been there ever since. Nowadays The old train station at the bottom of Main Street has two fireplaces for cozy indoor dining, a large outdoor garden area for drinks, dinner, or parties. It also has a large, inviting bar. Oh, and it’s also haunted:
According to legend, on Wednesday nights, the main dining room has one extra guest, who did not make a reservation. In 1898, a local woman learned that her husband planned to kill her. The unfortunate lady rushed to the train depot to catch the 10:15 train to Poughkeepsie, but was apprehended by her husband, who stabbed her on a bench in the waiting room two minutes before the train’s arrival. Today, the former waiting room serves as the restaurant’s main dining room and locals claim that at 10:13 on Wednesday nights, a cold draft wafts through the section of the room where she was killed. (USA Today)
Taken with a Sony RX10 IV.