Briarcliff Manor Department of Public Works staff member doing something (I know not what) to the baseball diamond in the Village Park. Whatever it was he was doing certainly produced a lot of dust!
Taken Sony RX100 MVII
Clouds of Dust
A Portrait
The two men above were sitting quite close to some the trucks emblazoned with the words “Atlantic Recovery Services” (the same trucks as mentioned in the previous post). My path towards Ossining station went right past them. I was a little concerned that they might not like me taking pictures of their trucks. How did I know that they were their trucks? Other than the fact that they were sitting near to the trucks, they also had the words Atlantic Recovery Services on their hats and their shirts. As I went by, I could tell they were going to speak to me. Imagine my surprise when they expressed concern that they might be doing something wrong. Why else would I be taking pictures? I reassured them that I walk around taking pictures of anything that interests me and that as far as I knew they were doing nothing wrong.
We had a little chat and asked them what they were waiting for. It seems that some construction was taking place in the vicinity, and in the course of this a large hole was dug. The hole had filled with water, and it was their job to pump it all out. They were waiting for someone to come and let them into the building site so they could do their job.
I was now feeling quite comfortable with them and asked if I could take a picture of them. They agreed and afterwards the guy on the left asked if I would email him a copy. Of course I agreed. He seemed to like it.
Taken with a Nikon D40 and Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm f4.5-5.6
Boy on a bike
He was having a great time! And he was color coordinated: his shoes, his shorts, his shirt, his helmet, even his bike. Everything is blue, my favorite color.
Taken with a Nikon D40 and Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm f4.5-5.6
Woman in a Coffee Shop
Taken in a coffee shop (First Village Coffee) in Ossining, NY. I liked the way the light was streaming in through the door.
Taken with a Sony RX100 VII
A borrowed lens
I mentioned in an earlier post (See: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery/Old Dutch Burying Ground) that I was trying out my friend’s almost 20-year-old Nikon D40 digital camera. On that occasion I used the camera with her Nikon Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 lens in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. This time I went down to the Hudson River waterfront in Ossining and used the camera with her other lens: a Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm f4.5-5.6.
I like this lens. Of course, being a 70-300mm zoom it’s heavier, but not so heavy that my aging arms can’t tolerate it. It’s also better made. It’s clearly a more expensive lens than the other one (which I suspect was a kit lens). It’s very sharp from 70-200mm; is image stabilized (what Nikon call’s “vibration reduction”); It has a large easy to use zoom ring; The autofocus is fast and accurate. I couldn’t find much to dislike (but that might just be me).
I enjoyed using it.
Taken with a Nikon D40 and Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm f4.5-5.6