Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
March 31 was my wife’s birthday and she received these flowers: the roses in the first picture from me; and the flowers in the second two pictures from our friends Ken and Doreen Cross.
Daisies and red and yellow roses.
Daisy and yellow rose.
Taken with a Sony NEX 5N and the 85mm F2 Nikkor loaned to me by my fried Paul Savior.
This stretch of the Taconic State Parkway has often caught my interest- it’s something about the way in which it curves around through the trees. But for various reasons (It was inconvenient; I didn’t have a camera ready to hand; I just forgot) I’ve never taken a picture of it. This time my wife was driving, I had my camera nearby and, perhaps most importantly, I remembered to take the picture rather than talking to my wife, or listening to music on the radio.
Film Swap Result
One of the people who follow me on Flickr today “faved” some of my pictures so I thought I’d take a look at some of hers. I noticed that a number of her albums were entitled “Film swap with person XXX”; “Film swap with person YYY” etc. I took a look and I could see that they were something to do with multiple exposures, but I wasn’t exactly sure how the process worked so I dug a bit deeper.
This was taken around 8:00 pm in July, 2012. The sun was low over the horizon – going down over the Hudson Highlands. I’d been looking at the river, but my walk took me in the opposite direction where this wonderful evening sunlight was shining into the trees. I’ve enhanced the colors a little – but not very much.
Taken with a Sony NEX5N and 55mm f2.8 Industar 61, the lens that came with the FED 2 camera that started my camera collection. In those days I didn’t really understand how focus magnification and focus peaking worked and so had some difficulty getting really precise focusing. This one isn’t too bad though.
Japanese Maple in the Snow. True to form this Winter decided that we couldn’t just continue with the nice warmer weather and hit us with a snow storm on the first day of Spring. It was supposed to be around six inches, but turned out to be less – about 2-3 inches in my estimation. It’s going to be close to 50 degrees today so I imagine it’ll melt fairly quickly.
I wanted to see if I could capture the falling snow so I set the camera on a tripod; selected the lowest ISO; and set the smallest aperture in order to give me a slow shutter speed. I was somewhat successful, particularly in the third picture where you can see trails of the falling snow against the darker chairs.
Adirondack Chairs