Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
More snow, but not a lot. The pictures (particularly the first) are a bit misleading. The snow didn’t stick to paved surfaces so the roads, and more importantly my driveway were clear. Still it was rainy, cold and snowy for the entire day and I didn’t really feel like going out so the pictures were taken in/from my garden.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and adapted Minolta MD 50mm f1.4
Stone bridges. We seem to have quite a lot of them. Mind you if you’ve ever had to dig a hole around here you’d know why – rocks everywhere!
The first two were taken directly across from my house. I’ve taken many pictures of the first, but one day as I was walking around again in that area I heard the sound of water falling over rocks and decided to go and check it out. The second, small bridge is what I found. It’s right across the road from the house I’ve lived in for over 20 years and I never knew it existed.
The next four were all taken at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve.
The final picture was taken where Caney Brook passes under Scarborough Road at its intersection with Sleepy Hollow Road – about a 10 minute walk from my house.
Taken with Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS, Tamron Di III VXD A056SF 70-180mm f2.8., and Sony 24mm f2.8 G.
It was a gorgeous sunny day yesterday with temperatures around 55F/13C. Then this morning I woke up to this….only about 2-3 inches, but annoying just the same.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Tamron Di III VXD A056SF 70-180mm f2.8.
Today would have been the 165th birthday of possibly my favorite photographers: Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, born 12 February 1857. Above a photograph of Atget shortly before he died by Berenice Abbott, herself a famous photographer and champion of Atget’s work. Below: Atget’s photograph: “Au Tambour” taken in 1908.
The Washington Irving High School at 18 North Broadway in Tarrytown, New York was built c. 1897. In the 1920s, the new building was constructed for the school about a half mile south on Broadway, and the old school later become the Frank R. Pierson School. After the school closed, the building was derelict for many years, until being converted to condominiums.
The site of the school is considered to be one possibility – of many – for the location of the Elizabeth Van Tassel house, a Revolutionary War-era tavern mentioned by Washington Irving in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
The building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1984.
Plaque below a tree on the property. In case it’s difficult to make out it reads “This tree presented to the Washington Irving High School by the senior class 1940”
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.