Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I came across this convoy of Canada Geese the other day on the Hudson River in Ossining, NY. They were heading north (maybe to some kind of goose convention?). I don’t recall ever have seen so many of them at the same time. This picture shows 29 geese, but I couldn’t fit all of them in, there were probably 10-15 more behind these.
Taken with a Sony RX10 IV
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
About a month ago my younger daughter was visiting NY City, so I went in to have lunch with her. She was staying in a friend’s apartment on Long Island City. I remember Long Island City as being mostly factories and warehouses. Things have certainly changed: High rise apartment buildings, lovely parks along the river, nice restaurants etc. Her friend’s apartment certainly had some fantastic views. And only one stop away from Grand Central.
Taken with a Sony RX100 VII
Another view from “The Boathouse“, a couple of views of the Shattemuc Yacht Club, and a few co-operative Mallards.
Taken with a Sony RX10 M4.
My younger daughter and her two girls are currently in New York. We spent a night in a hotel in Tribeca and the next morning went for a look around taking in the 9/11 memorials, the Oculus and finally the Staten Island Ferry. The latter was of particular interest to me because I lived on Staten Island for three years in the 1970s.
Taken with a Sony RX100 VII.