Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
It was a gloomy, rainy day today, but I managed a quick walk before the rain really set in.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.
During COVID it was not possible to travel as much as I had been doing. I therefore confined myself to walks in the immediate vicinity of my house and started a series of photographs, which with my usual lack of inspiration I decided to call “Around the Neighborhood”. I defined this as meaning anywhere that I could walk back and forth to from my house.
In this case the subject is a single tree in a nearby woodland. I’d already taken a number of pictures of it but on this occasion I decided on the spur of the moment to attempt an exercise that I’d recently read about. This exercise consisted of taking thirty six photographs of a single subject all at once.
Quite easy at first, but after about twenty photographs increasingly more difficult. In fact at that point I almost gave up, but I stuck with it and in the end found it to be quite useful. I’m the kind of person who will walk up to a subject, take a few pictures and then move on. This exercise made me slow down and look more carefully. Indeed, towards the end I was noticing things, which I had already walked past a couple of times and not spotted.
In order to not bore any reader with 36 individual images, I’ve combined them into just two (see below of you’re interested).
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XF 55-200mm f3.5-4.8 R LM OIS
Trees reflected in a nearby pond.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.
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.
I came across this interestingly shaped shrub/bush in front of another of Tarrytown’s restaurants: Sweet Grass Grill, which describes itself as follows:
Sweet Grass Grill is a casual restaurant serving local and seasonal food right in the heart of Tarrytown. With relationships with about a dozen local farms, the menu varies week to week depending on the daily harvests. Expect seasonal soups and salads and a changing roster of entrees. The bar is carved out of a single fallen oak tree from the Rockefeller Preserves and features a great cocktail menu, microbrews and many wines by the glass.
I’ve been there a few times, but not recently. As I recall the food was good.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.