Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
One of my rare wildlife photos. Actually this one wasn’t very wild. The picture was taken at Teatown Lake Reservation and the bird was perched on his/her handler’s arm. Teatown has a number of injured animals. Some they keep until they recover from their injuries and some are kept forever because their injuries are too severe. I don’t recall what kind of bird of prey this was. They probably told us at the time (November 2010) but I’ve since forgotten.
Taken with a Panasonic Lumix ZS-3.
One day while I was walking the dog around the Jefferson Valley Mall I came across this unfortunate deer by the side of the road. At first I was just going to take a picture of the carcass, but then vaguely defined thoughts to do with the way that technology was destroying our environment came to mind and I decided to include the instruments of the deer’s destruction: the passing vehicles.
As I write this I realize that I did another post with the words “memento mori” in the title: Memento Mori: Bird Wing . Co-incidentally it was taken at pretty much the same location.
Taken with an iphone 5S.
As we come to the end of another year it’s time for me to go through my annual ritual of picking a few (actually 10) of my favorite pictures from 2017, starting with black and white.
Above – Tides by Emil Alzamora. Taken at Peekskill River Park.
A runs through it – the Croton Gorge that is. Taken from the top of the New Croton Dam.
Bear Mountain Bridge looking towards Anthony’s Nose.
Blacksmith. Taken at the Putnam County 4-H Fair in Carmel.
Old Farm Building. Taken in Veyrier, Geneva, Switzerland.
Carmen and Harley.
Detail of Belmont Mausoleum, Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY.
Detail of Henry Villard Memorial by Karl Bitter. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY.
Our friend’s dog, Buster.
The Kings Chamber, one of many such structures in Putnam County, NY.
Although Winter has not yet officially started, it certainly feels as if it has. It’s been cold and a bit snowy of late (not too bad yet though) and I haven’t been venturing very far afield. Consequently, I’ve been reduced once again to taking pictures in, and around the house. This one is of our dog, Harley.
He looks a bit suspicious to me. I think he knew what was coming. Within minutes of this picture my wife had reindeer antlers on his head for a Christmas picture (which I won’t be posting here). He’s a good dog though and put up with it with his usual grace and dignity.
Taken with a Sony Alpha A77 II and Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f1.7 lens.
One of the current inhabitants.
Taken with a Sony RX100 M3.