More Birds

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Birds in flight over the Hudson River – except for the crow, which was just in the process of landing.

I borrowed an almost 20-year-old digital camera from a friend to see what I could do with it. I didn’t expect much when I tried taking pictures of birds in flight because of the ancient autofocus. But the pictures are not too bad. Just goes to show that you don’t necessarily need the latest and greatest technology to take decent photographs (although it certainly helps if you’re taking pictures of birds in flight) particularly if all you’re going to do with them is post them to social media.

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Taken with a Sony A7IV and Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro

All Saints Church Briarcliff Manor: The Old Parish House.

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All Saints is quite close to my house. I was walking by and got talking to the sexton, Don. He told me he was going up to the Old Parish House to prepare it and the rectory for a new rector whose arrival was imminent. I told him I’d never seen the inside, and he invited me to go with him.

Around 1904 a small fieldstone parish house was built on a rocky rise behind the rectory. Designed in the Arts and Crafts style and completed in 1904, it was constructed almost entirely by parish women, an almost unheard-of thing at the time (see picture). The hall has walls of undressed fieldstone, a split entrance door in the Dutch manner and a fieldstone fireplace.
Thanks Don.

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Taken with an Apple iPhone SE II