Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I don’t actually know who Cathy Hanson is. I understand from neighbors that she lives in our community, but I don’t think I’ve ever met her. What I was more interested in was the contrast between the bright yellow sign, and the reds of the shrub behind. Also the way that the strong back light illuminated both of them. The Kiron 28-70 mm lens flares really badly so I was pleasantly surprised to find that in this case, for once, the flare was something that I could live with.
On a shrub next to the road in one of our neighbor’s gardens. I wanted to see how well I could isolate the blossom from the background. It also seemed to me to be reflection of the transition from summer to fall, which saddened me a little.
Another picture of our dog, Harley sitting in what seems to have become one of his favorite locations. We took him to be groomed a week or so ago and he looks quite different from the way he looked before. Below – the old look Harley sitting in virtually the same spot, but before his grooming.
I liked the texture of the rock and the diagonal lines of the cracks. Also the contrast with the black, essentially vertical twig.
This was taken back in October, 2011 with a Sony Alpha 500 and Sigma 75-300mm lens. We’d been on a boat excursion on the Hudson with four friends and we’d arrived back in Peekskill just as it was getting dark. I recall that I wanted to get some sense of movement to capture the excitement of the funfair ride.