Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
An earlier post showed the Roaring Brook just before it entered the lake. This is another view of the brook – this time at the point where it joins the lake. The docks belong to houses owned by two of our friends: Mary (closer) and Jonathan (further away).
Taken in an antiques store in Cold Spring, NY in February of 2012 with a Sony NEX-5n and manual focus Canon 50mm f1.4 lens in Leica Thread Mount.
The lake into which this brook runs is called “Roaring Brook Lake”. The brook runs alongside “Roaring Brook Lane” so I guess this must be “Roaring Brook” – just before it runs into the lake, about two minutes walk from our house.
As I recall I was “fiddling around” while waiting for my food in the Executive Diner on Route 9a in Hawthorne, NY. The camera is certainly a Sony NEX-5n and I suspect the lens is an old manual focus Canon 50mm f1.4 in Leica Thread Mount (I think this was the lens because I know that other pictures taken around the same time were taken with it). It was taken through a glass partition – hence the lines, which were a pattern on the glass. There seem to be a lot of highlights in the background, but I can’t recall exactly what they were or why there were so many.
For once it’s not me walking the dog, but me taking a picture of someone walking the dog. This was taken with a NEX-5n and 18-55mm kit lens. It was soon after I got the camera and I wasn’t all that familiar with it. It was early in the morning in November 2011 and I was walking in a park in Greenwich, Ct. Suddenly this group came out of nowhere and I took the picture.
At the time I wasn’t thinking much about why I took it, but in retrospect there are a few things I like. First I’m happy that I got something half way decent. Usually if it moves I miss it. Second I like the way that the adult’s feet are just about off the ground. Third I love the size of the dog and as I look at the picture again I notice that he/she is wearing a small hat. Finally I like the look on the child’s face. He’s obviously seen me taking the picture.