Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I don’t remember exactly where this was. It’s in the same batch as a number of pictures taken at the Museum of Modern Art in New York so I’m guessing that it was somewhere in the vicinity i.e in the 50’s just west of Fifth Avenue.
I know it was taken with a Sony NEX 5N but Lightroom provides not information regarding the lens used so it must have been one of my many adapted vintage lenses, but I don’t recall which one.
Sea Change by Ed Benavente. Steel, 2013 stands at 276 Main Street, right outside where we’d decided to have lunch. In a comment on another of his works (Getting Somewhere, 2013, 380 Main Street also in Beacon) he states:
“My work is about progress. The reason I always include my original and current body weights in my bio is to reflect the progress and changes in my personal life history. The fluctuations have been many as have the reasons. Gravity is a universal force affecting all. We share that and other common threads that can be defined as truth, philosophy, religion, food, love, hate or any number of things which are common to all but different to each. Every figure, color and shape I use is meant to convey a story to be interpreted by the viewer and impart some reflection on the meaning of life. Some messages are more purposeful than others. Often times the message changes with the passage of time and life experience. The same goes for body weight.
Since moving to Beacon, New York in 2006, most of my time and attention has been dedicated to community building in our new home. Our small town has a rich history and like many of its kind fell onto hard times over the years. I am proud to be a part of the growing artistic community that has helped to encourage new life and optimism to the area. Art alone will not solve the problems of the work but together we are Getting Somewhere.”
Taken with a Sony A77II and Tamron A18 AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3.
According to News 12 Westchester:
A new piece of art is on display at Harbor Square complex in Ossining.
A 42-foot tall sculpture will serve as the centerpiece of the waterfront park being built. Sculptor Peter Lundberg named the monument ‘Take Me to the River,’ and has framed it with trenches and concrete. “For me it is a homage to the Hudson River and as I was building it, I built it right on location here right next to the Hudson and seeing boats go back and forth; I used to live near the Hudson River too so it has a lot of meaning for me,” says Lundberg.
Lundberg says the sculpture looks different depending on the time of day and weather.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
Taken during a visit to Staatsburgh State Historic Site in September, 2016.
Although I didn’t do it consciously, looking at these pictures now I realize that I was, once again, trying to emulate the beautiful pictures of my photographic hero: Eugène Atget. Somehow, however, I can’t get it. His photographs are for the most part quite simple. It seems as though anyone should be able to emulate them – but you can’t (or at least I can’t) and I can’t quite figure our why. It’s certainly not his gear, which was obsolete at the time he was using it (although any large format camera will produce a ‘look’, which is completely different from the one I get using a much smaller format). I think it must be an innate understanding of composition that I lack.
Take with a Sony NEX 5N and Sigma, 30mm f2.8.
And now 10 favorites from 2017 in color. Above Christmas tree in two bridges park near Childrens Beach on Roaring Brook Lake.
Got pork? Taken at the Hudson Valley Ribfest, August 2017.
Building on Chemin Vert, Pinchat, Geneva, Switzerland.
Iris in my daughter’s garden, Geneva, Switzerland.
Blue Angels, NY Airshow, Stewart Airport, July 2017.
Your repetitive View by Olafur Eliasson on the Peekskill Riverwalk Park.
Corvette. Film photograph taken in Brewster, NY.
Fall landscape. Roaring Brook Lake.
Lights on Broadway, March 2017.
Shadow of a cross. Croton-on-Hudson, July 2017.