Not something you see every day.
Taken with a Sony A77M2 and Tamron A18 AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3.
Hudson Valley Hot-Air Balloon Festival – Dog on a Bicylcle
Hudson Valley Hot-Air Balloon Festival – Overview
Back in July 2018 we went to the Hudson Valley Hot-Air Balloon Festival at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, NY.
The festival’s website describes it as follows:
The Hudson Valley Hot-Air Balloon Festival is in its 28th year of hosting balloonists and vendors from all over the country. The festival’s history has evolved into a Hudson Valley tradition and has grown into a full weekend of activities, drawing tens thousands of visitors from all over the world. Some of the festival favorites are the evening Majestic Hot-Air Balloon Illumination Moon Glow, tether rides, and rides in the hot-air balloons throughout the weekend! In addition to 100 balloon launches scheduled annually, we offer helicopter rides, hayrides, games, live music, adult and children’s activities and so much more
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It was a nice day, if a little windy, which turned out to be a bit of a problem since the balloon’s can’t launch if the wind is too high. Also we failed to understand that the balloon’s launched only twice during the day: very early (which we were too late for) and early evening, which meant that we had to wait around for about 5-6 hours (not a very attractive proposition since there wasn’t enough going on to keep us interested for time we would have to wait).
For a while it looked as if the balloon’s in the picture above would be the only ones that we would see. It turned out that this wasn’t the case but more on that below.
Taken with a Sony A77M2 and Tamron A18 AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3.
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Hudson River School Painters at Boscobel
This is one of a series of sculptures (busts?) of Hudson River School painters to be found at Boscobel in Cold Spring NY.
This one is of Thomas Moran.
According to Wikipedia:
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner’s Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.
Moran along with Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and William Keith are sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of landscape painters because of all of the Western landscapes made by this group.
I had taken some pictures before (See: Boscobel – Sculptures of Hudson River School Artists), but it seems that they have added a number of new sculptures since then. Unfortunately, I had to rush off and was unable to photograph any of the other new ones.
Taken with a Sony A77II and Tamron A18 AF 18-250mm f3.5-6.3
A Pine Cone
Not much of a picture. I’m not entirely sure why I took it. I guess I must have seen something in it at the time.
Taken with a Nikon D80 and Nikon 35-80mm f4.0-5.6.
New Yorker: How Garry Winogrand Transformed Street Photography
Hang Em High,” New York, 1968.Photograph by Garry Winogrand © The Estate of Garry Winogrand / Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery
Interesting article in the New Yorker about a new documentary: “All Things Are Photographable,” which traces “how the legendarily prolific photographer pulled his art form into modernity”.