Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
An earlier post showed the Roaring Brook just before it entered the lake. This is another view of the brook – this time at the point where it joins the lake. The docks belong to houses owned by two of our friends: Mary (closer) and Jonathan (further away).
It’s a little depressing around here at the moment. Usually by this time we have a fair bit of snow. I’m not all that fond of snow but it does at least make the place look picturesque. At the moment there are just a lot of bare trees. I was therefore surprised to find that one of our neighbors had hung this candy cane on a tree adding a splash of color to the otherwise monochromatic scenery. With the camera I had with me I wasn’t able to blur the background as much as I would have liked and the twigs and branches are more than a little distracting. The fact that you can see them does, however, emphasize the contrast between them and the bright colors of the candy cane.
Taken while walking the dog – or in this case just after walking the dog. We’d been for a walk and I noticed a few things I thought worthy of a picture. Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera. Luckily this stream is only a couple of minutes walk from where I live so I took the dog home, grabbed the camera and went back. The weather had been fairly warm and the stream was far from being frozen over. However, this patch where the water flowed over some rock had a lot of ice.
We were returning home along the Taconic one day when we decided that neither of us felt like making dinner. Instead we thought we would have our old standby – Chinese food. So we got off a the Secor Road exit and went down to Chan’s Garden (It’s mostly a takeout place and so not much to look at but the food is good and plentiful – or at least the Chinese food is. They also make Japanese food, but the one time we tried it it wasn’t very good). My wife went in to order the food while I walked the dog. A block or so down Secor road I came across this lovely old tractor in a garden. There seemed to be a lot of other interesting stuff there, but I couldn’t get shots of any of them without walking down the driveway and I didn’t have the guts to do that.
New York circa 1900. “Waiting for the train, Depot near Poughkeepsie. 5×7 inch glass negative rescued from an Upstate attic. Source: The Poughkeepsie Peeper: 1900 | Shorpy Historic Picture Archive
Nice to see an old picture from a nearby town, which I’ve visited in just the last couple of weeks:
Bardavon Opera House
Times Gone By
Street Art
Madonna and Child Statue
Urban Decay
A Couple of Buildings on Main Mall Row, Poughkeepsie, NY
Redeemed Christian Fellowship – Church of God of Prophecy
Colorful Mural