Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
The white trellis once functioned as a gate, which opened onto some steps leading down and into the lake. Unfortunately last Winter a/some deer smashed the gate as they came up from/went down to the frozen lake. Something else that needs to be repaired or replaced! It seems like there’s always something.
Taken with a Minolta STsi and Minolta AF Zoom 28-80 f3.5-5.6
View of the lake from our garden (really getting desperate to finish the roll now).
Taken with a Minolta STsi and Minolta AF Zoom 28-80 f3.5-5.6
I wanted to get the roll off to be developed and I thought I only had a frame or two left. It turned out that rather than being a 24 exposure roll I had inserted a 36 exposure roll. So I had to fill the remaining frames with some shots around our house.
Above some of my wife’s plants with one of my cameras (a newly acquired Kodak 35), on a wooden table on our patio.
Taken with a Minolta STsi and Minolta AF Zoom 28-80 f3.5-5.6
You’ve got to love old barns. At least I do. All that weathered wood with its wonderful textures.
This one is right by the entrance to the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.
Taken with a Minolta STsi and Minolta AF Zoom 28-80 f3.5-5.6
Our friends used to live right next to this mansion. They’ve told us that when they were there it was quite a ‘happening’ place, a popular spot for weddings and other events. It was even listed among one of the top five best wedding ceremony locations in the Hudson Valley (See Five of the Best Wedding Ceremony Locations in the Hudson Valley, NY: Part 1 on the Huffington Post) where it is described as follows:
Interviewee: Nikola Rebraca, proprietor of the Belvedere Mansion. Nikola characterizes the Belvedere as “a boutique hotel with great, authentic European food and an intimate setting on a totally private estate.” They offer three outdoor ceremony locations as well as an indoor option. Small ceremonies often take place in Belvedere’s original Stanford White designed gazebo. Larger gatherings of 200-250 often choose a site along the pond, but 90 percent of Belvedere ceremonies are mid-sized and take place behind a gate in a lovely French Garden. Indoor ceremony options are also available.
Alas these glory days have now gone. The mansion is now closed and judging from the amount of neglect has been for some time.
The former entrance now blocked with a chain.
The main house.
Pavilion by the pond.
Gazebo. Apparently designed by Stanford White (see above).
Field of Jars.
Taken with a Minolta STsi and Minolta AF Zoom 28-80 f3.5-5.6