Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
While walking back to the station from Peekskill’s Blue Mountain Reservation I spotted this interesting looking house across the road. As I looked more closely, I noticed the dog in the garden.
He/she wasn’t barking. Rather he/she just sat there glowering at me.
What an expression!
Taken with a Sony RX10IV
Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill, NY is a 1,538-acre park in the northwest section of Westchester County. It was acquired in 1926. It features miles of trails for mountain biking, strolling and nature study, and offers challenging hikes to the tops of two large peaks, Mt. Spitzenberg and Blue Mountain. The Sportsman Center at Blue Mountain Reservation is a recreation facility offering target ranges.
Taken with a Sony RX10IV
More birds. This time Canada Geese. They usually just sedately paddle around. This time, however, some of them were quite active, even aggressive.
Taken with a Sony RX10IV.
This is my cat, Isa. I don’t take very many pictures of her, partly because there are already plenty of cat pictures on the internet.
This one came about when I was fiddling around with a vintage lens. When I bought my Sony NEX 5N back in 2011 one of my reasons for buying it was the I’d read that you could use relatively inexpensive vintage, usually manual focus, lenses on it with the right adapter(s). I did this for some time, but the allure of autofocus (along with other goodies that modern technology brought along) eventually took me away from manual focus lenses.
Since I still have a number of old, manual focus lenses I decided to give them a try again. This one is from the former Soviet Union. It’s a copy of a Zeiss f2 Sonnar and it’s called a Jupiter 8 It’s in Leica Thread Mount (LTM). There’s a review of it here: Jupiter 8 – A giant amongst the stars. For some older pictures taken when I first got it see here.
While many lenses are nowhere near as sharp of as contrasty as modern lenses, I feel that in recent times sharpness and contrast have been overemphasized. Sure, modern lenses are sharp and contrasty, almost clinically so, but to me they lack the “character” (whatever that is) of the older lenses. And I rather like that character, in certain situations.
My copy was made in 1963.
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Krasnogorsk Mechanical Works (KMZ) 50mm f2, Jupiter 8.
Now this is the kind of bird that I like to photograph: one that’s easy to take a picture of because it doesn’t move about much. And, of course, it made me smile.
Taken with a Sony RX10 IV.