Return of the Red Baron

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Model Fokker Dr.I Triplane (Dreidecker) seen in a neighbor’s house.

According to Acepilots.com:

While it remains the most famous airplane of World War One, only 320 of the Fokker Dr.1 Triplane were built (compared to thousands of Spads, Nieuports, Albatroses, and Sopwith Camels). Inspired by the devastating performance of the Sopwith Triplane, Anthony Fokker designed and built the Dr.I Dreidecker, and delivered the first triplanes to Manfred von Richthofen‘s Jagdgeschwader I in late August 1917. After a brief familiarization flight, the “Red Baron” took aircraft number 102/17 up on September 1, and promptly shot down a British R.E.8 of No. 6 Sqn, whose crew probably thought the three-winged craft was a friendly Sopwith.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.

Still Life – Peony

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In an earlier post (See: Croton Landing – Killdeer). I mentioned that I might “have a go” a wildlife photography as a challenge.

I recently acquired a copy of Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective and in it there are a number of beautiful still life photographs.

Since I’ve always found still life’s appealing it occurred to me that this could be another challenge. While I’ve taken still life’s before, this is one of the first I’ve taken since reading the book.

It’s taken in a corner of our house in Briarcliff Manor, which has particularly good light at certain times of day and shows a peony from our garden in one of my wife’s numerous pieces of blue and white china.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.

Unnamed Trail – Old Stone Bridge

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A new trail has recently opened in Fahnestock State Park. It’s close to our house and can be easily reached by a short walk along Lake Shore Road. It’s so new that it doesn’t seem to have a name yet, and the last time I was there the trails do not show blazes.

A while back I took the dog for a walk there – about two hours in all. Early on we passed by this old stone bridge over Roaring Brook. A road of some kind must at one point have crossed this bridge, but the nearby Taconic State Parkway now blocks any further progress in that direction.

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.