My Top 20 Photos on Flickr

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Sybil Ludington Statue Carmel, NY

1. Sybil Ludington statue, Carmel NY

From time to time I post images to Flickr.  They’re not necessarily representative of my pictures.  I have around 18,000 images in Lightroom and only 532 in Flickr.  What criteria do I use to determine what to post: none really.  It’s all whim.  Some days I feel like posting to Flickr, some days I don’t.

Today it occurred to me that there might be a way to see the most frequently viewed images.  After ‘googling’ a while I discovered that there was.  So below you can see, in order from most viewed to least viewed, my top 20 pictures on Flickr – based on views.  The large images represent the top five, while the remaining 15 can be found in the attached gallery.

17 of the images are black and white and three are color.

8 are from film and 12 are digital

Almost half (9) come from two locations: Croton Landing (6) and nearby Croton Point (3).

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2. Tulips by the Old Jug Inn, Scarborough, NY

Reflected trees - Croton Landing

3. Tree Reflections, Croton Landing

Audrey Hepburn statue outside UNICEF on 44th Street NY

4. Audrey Hepburn Statue outside the UNICEF building on 44th street between first and second in Manhattan

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5. Autumn leaves, Kingsland Point Park, Sleepy Hollow, NY


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Sitting watching the ice melt

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We’re having some lovely weather today – sunny with temperatures in the 60s. It really feels like spring. The ice has been steadily melting on the lake and now it’s almost gone. This morning the ice went almost to our dock. Now, as I sit outside on the patio it’s disappearing before my eyes. I’m sure it will be gone completely by the end of the day.

Finally a nice day

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The Weather Channel (if you believe anything that they say) is threatening a “potential” significant storm towards the middle of next week. For now though the weather is gorgeous: around 50 degrees Fahrenheit. There’s still quite a bit of snow on the ground, but I was able to dig a path to our two Adirondack chairs where I sat for a couple of hours looking at the lake and watching the people on the lake who were, I think, trying to cut holes in the ice so that they could fish. Jackson wandered around for a while until he sat down on the snow (looked awfully cold) so I got out his dog bed and put it on one of the chairs. He jumped up and seemed to be very comfortable. After a couple of hours the sun started to go down and I set off to go in. Jackson didn’t want to budge so I had to pick him up and carry him in. I guess he was enjoying it.

Although I have a house full of cameras I had my antediluvian iphone 3GS with me so I used that.

One hundred years and going strong – Happy Birthday Leica

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Leica Prototype

From The Guardian, Eamonn McCabe, Sean Smith, and Denis Thorpe talk about the importance of the Leica on the 100th anniversary of the creation of the original prototype. McCabe starts off with this comment:

 

 

Now that we all carry cameraphones in our pockets, it’s hard to imagine that the biggest breakthrough in photography actually happened back in 1914 – when Oskar Barnack invented the Leica.

Suddenly, photographers could throw away their heavy tripods and exploding flashguns, and step out of their studios to walk the streets and take photographs with this new mobile camera.

Barnack, a German optical engineer who specialised in microscope research, was also a keen amateur photographer, but his health was poor and he couldn’t carry the heavy cameras of the time. He quickly turned his prototype Ur-Leica into a lasting success. By 1932, there were 90,000 cameras. By 1961, a million cameras were in use.

via Happy 100th birthday, Leica! | Art and design | theguardian.com.