Some of my favorite pictures of 2024 – Black and White

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Self Portrait. Briarcliff Manor, NY. October 18, 2024.

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Dove Silhouette. Briarcliff Manor, NY. April 28, 2024.

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Railroad Tracks, Croton-Harmon Station. Croton-on-Hudson, NY. August 25, 2024.

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Statue, All Souls Cemetery, Pleasantville, NY. February 7, 2024.

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The Rising. Kensico Dam Plaza. March 13, 2024.

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Luna. Sleepy Hollow, NY. October 13, 2024.

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Building Facade in Manhattan. NY, NY. April 29, 2024.

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Double-arched Bridge. Ossining, NY. November 17, 2024.

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Sing Sing Prison. Ossining, NY. June 24, 2024.

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Grasses in a vernal pond. Briarcliff Manor, NY. March 9, 2024.

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Tree Trunks. Briarcliff Manor, NY. November 1, 2024.

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Photographs inside “Mudville”. NY, NY. August 10, 2024

Taken with a variety of cameras and lenses

Some of my favorite pictures of 2024 – Color

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Vermeeresque. Briarcliff Manor, February 17, 2024

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Creepy hot dog man. Ossining, February 24, 2024

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Benny Benack III at Django. NY, NY, August 8, 2024

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Black Vulture on my roof. Briarcliff Manor, September 22, 2024.

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Stone Bridge with Fall leaves. Briarcliff Manor, November 10, 2024

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Red-winged Blackbird. Briarcliff Manor, June 17, 2024.

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Rockefeller State Park. Pleasantville, NY, May 20, 2024.

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Ice cream eaters. Peekskill, NY, July 28, 2024.

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Pigeons. NY, NY, August 18, 2024

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Paper Bird in a bookstore. Ossining, NY. November 17, 2024.

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Clouds. Briarcliff Manor, NY. November 4, 2024.

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Juno. West Rutland, Vermont. August 26, 2024.

Taken with a variety of cameras and lenses

In Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow – Keith and Linda

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I love Korean food and a little over a week ago I went to Tarrytown to try out a Korean restaurant I’d never noticed before: Bibillé.

I was a little early, and I was standing outside the restaurant waiting for it to open. The couple in the picture were also standing there. They weren’t waiting for it to open as I was. They’d already eaten. Rather they were perusing the menu in the window. We struck up a conversation and I discovered that they had recently moved from California to Ossining.

We talked for some time, and I asked them if I could take the photograph above, and they agreed. Keith gave me his business card (he’s a chess coach) so that I could send him the picture, which I did. I’d enjoyed the conversation so much that in the email transmitting the picture I asked if they’d like to get together sometime for coffee or lunch or something. They agreed and I hope to see them again soon.

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Nikon Nikkor Micro 55mm f3.5

Walkway over the Hudson

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A while back I went for a walk over the Walkway over the Hudson. It’s a steel bridge spanning the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie, New York, on the east bank and Highland, New York, on the west bank. Built as a double track railroad bridge, it was completed on January 1, 1889. A fire caused it to be taken out of service in 1974. It was reopened on October 3, 2009, as a pedestrian walkway, part of the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park. It claims to the world’s longest elevated pedestrian bridge.

Even though it opened it 2009, this was my first visit. I was impressed by the stunning views.

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Sojourner Truth Statue

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Downtown Poughkeepsie

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Taken with a Sony RX10 IV

A visit to upstate New York and Vermont – Back in Westchester County, NY

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The morning after our dinner at Roots we had breakfast, let Juno run around for a while and then, since my friends had offered to drive me back home, we headed off back towards the lower Hudson valley where I live.

On the way we stopped at Chuang Yen monastery (above), near Putnam Valley where I used to have a house.

Finally, we reached Westchester County where I now live. After a quick drive around (where, among other places we took a quick look at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture), we went to dinner at one of my favorite riverside restaurants: The Boathouse in Ossining, NY.

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