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
Boy on a bike
A convoy of geese
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
A Statuette
Spotted while I was walking from my house down to the waterfront in Ossining, NY. As is the case with almost all my photographs, I took it most because I thought it looked interesting.
To a very large extent I agree with famous photographer Garry Winogrand when he said: “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.”
Taken with a Sony RX10 IV
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
Community Day
September 13th, 2025 was Community Day in Briarcliff so of course the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough had to have a table. The event was well attended and we had numerous visitors. The weather was glorious, and a good time was had by all.
Taken with a Sony RX100 VII.