Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
‘Tis the season for fungi. Or so it appears to me. I’m certainly seeing a lot of them, different kinds too, during my woodland walks.
Taken using various cameras and lens.
Wave Hill has some impressive garden with the odd piece of garden art scattered around. There’s also a large greenhouse, which unfortunately we didn’t have time to visit. Above: Swallowed by Nature, by Natalie Collette Wood, 2018.
A nearby sign reads:
“Natalie Collette Wood
Swallowed by Nature, 2018
Chicken wire, repurposed furniture, plants
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of the Artist
For over a decade, Natalie Collette Wood has been reflecting on the intersections among the passage of time, nature and the built environment. Through sculpture, collage and painting, Wood renders interiors, building facades and cityscapes as blurred spaces that visually bleed into and merge with nature. Within these dreamlike scenes, Wood probes questions about scale and permanence.
Inspired by her time kayaking on the Bronx River where human detritus, like care tires displayed here, is regularly discarded, Wood began the think about urban spaces and their relationship to natural cycles of growth, decay and change. To process and accept what she sees as inevitable, Wood transforms common domestic objects until they are almost unrecognizable. In this case, a dining room table and chairs are engulfed by hundreds of succulents that require little to no human maintenance to thrive. Uncanny and sublime ‘Swallowed by Nature’ visualizes what happens when nature is left to reclaim our built environment and “joins the dinner table”.
‘Swallowed by Nature’ is part of ‘Eco-Urgency: Now or Never’, currently on view in Glyndor Gallery.”
Pictures taken with a Fuji X-E3 with Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II and Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XF 18mm f2 R
The Overlook offers some spectacular views of the Hudson River and the Palisades. Above my friend, George visiting from South Carolina takes a look at the Hudson River from The Overlook.
Pictures taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XF 18mm f2 R
Wave Hill is a remarkable site overlooking the Hudson River in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, NY City. Above: the Main House.
“The original Wave Hill House was a gray fieldstone mansion built in 1843 by lawyer William Lewis Morris. It was owned from 1866 to 1903 by publisher William Henry Appleton, who enlarged the house in between 1866 and 1869 and again in 1890, and added greenhouses and gardens to the grounds. During these years, the house was visited by Thomas Henry Huxley, who helped Charles Darwin bring evolution by natural selection to the public’s attention. Theodore Roosevelt’s family rented Wave Hill during the summers of 1870 and 1871, and Mark Twain leased it from 1901 to 1903.
The house was purchased in 1903 by George Walbridge Perkins, a partner of J. P. Morgan, along with adjacent property, including Glyndor, a house built by the Harriman family in 1888, which later burned down and was rebuilt in 1927. In 1910, Perkins added an underground building for recreation which included a bowling alley. Perkins performed extensive landscaping on the site and leased Wave Hill House to an eminent ichthyologist, Bashford Dean of the American Museum of Natural History, who built a stone addition to the building as a private museum, Armor Hall.
Other famous residents of the estate included the conductor Arturo Toscanini (1942–1945) and chief members of the British Delegation to the United Nations (1950–1956). In 1960, at the suggestion of Robert Moses, the Perkins-Freeman family deeded Wave Hill to the City of New York. In 1983, the estate was added to the roster of the National Register of Historic Places. Before 1987, the estate was known as Perkins Garden. During that year Parks Commissioner Henry Stern renamed it Wave Hill.” (Wikipedia)
Pictures taken with a Fuji X-E3 with Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II and Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XF 18mm f2 R
I had visitors who had travelled some distance and didn’t feel like going out. Where I live the delivery options are quite limited…until now. For the first time I tried ‘Uber Eats’. We ended up with Caribbean (Jamaican) food courtesy of ‘Cravin Jamaican Cuisine’ (cravinjc.com/) in nearby Ossining, NY. It was quite good too (particularly the jerk chicken)! Above: Vegetable Stew with plantains, rice and beans.
Taken with an Iphone SE II.