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
Trucks
As I got closer to the Ossining Metro North Station I noticed some activity. In particular I noticed these three large tanker trucks. Why were they there? What were they doing? That will become clear later, but now suffice it to say that they belong to Atlantic Recovery Services Inc. Atlantic Recovery Services, Inc. was established in 1996 and has become one of the primary service providers to the Steel Mill Industry with a large data base servicing all Oil Response needs. Atlantic Recovery Services provides Industrial Cleaning Serivces and is a leading provider in the Steel Industry. Specifically, they provide the following services: Emergency Response/ Spill Clean Up; Municipal Services; Power Plants; Utilities and Pipeline; Utilities & Pipeline; Disaster Relief: and Dry Ice Blasting. They also provide Waste Oil, Antifreeze and Drum Disposal including Used Oil; Antifreeze; Oil Water Separator Cleaning; Drum Removal; and Contaminated soil remediation. Finally, they provide the following Oil and Gas related services: Frac Tank Cleaning; Confined Space Entry; Pressure Washing; AST/ Impoundment; Pit Cleaning; Rig Wash; Emergency Response; Sand Removal; Dry Ice Cleaning and Disposal.
Now I don’t understand much of the above (I took it from the Atlantic Recovery Services website). I just liked the trucks, impressive vehicles as they were! I was also impressed by the way the trucks were decorated, particularly with the silhouettes on the sides of some of them.
Taken Sony RX100 MVII
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
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
A vintage car
I came across this amazing car while walking in Briarcliff Manor’s “Tree Streets” the other day. I don’t know very much about cars, but after a little research I suspect it’s a 1957 Cadillac Brougham.
For more on this car see:
https://www.supercars.net/…/1957-cadillac-eldorado…/
Taken with a Sony RX100 M7