Bit Chilly out there!

January 8, 2014 by Howard Dale Posted in Places Tagged gallery Leave a comment

Ice on the Hudson – Scarborough Station

I haven’t been out much lately. The weather was bad: snowy; then rainy; then really cold. Also I’ve had my first cold in about five years so didn’t feel much like leaving the house. I went into the city today and left in a bit of rush, forgetting to take a camera with me. So these were taken with my ancient iPhone 3G. It was still pretty cold, but clearly getting warmer. I seem to have survived the “polar vortex”.

Contrails and Silhouette – Scarborough Station

Could this be why I collect old cameras?

January 4, 2014 by Howard Dale Posted in Humour Tagged gallery Leave a comment

If so it’s not working. Thanks to Jay Javier Photography/ FOTOFABRIK

via USSRPhoto.com Blog.

Another snowfall

January 4, 2014 by Howard Dale Posted in Landscapes Tagged gallery Leave a comment

View of the lake from our living room

We had another round of snow the other day. Probably six or seven inches. The first two were taken with my Sony Nex 5n and the last two with my wife’s iPhone 5s.

Snow patterns on the lake

Lakeview with birdhouse

Welcome to the Lake House

2013 Favourites – Color

December 31, 2013 by Howard Dale Posted in Miscellaneous Tagged gallery Leave a comment

January – Storefront, New York City

An earlier post describes why I prefer black and white. One of the points made in that post is that I’m just not very good with color. I don’t have a good feel for it. So coming up with twelve pictures in color was a bit of a struggle. It wasn’t helped by the fact that I’d decided to have one picture per month. For some reason the color pictures I liked clustered together in certain months. For example I had quite a few from June, July and October and very little from February and March. Maybe it’s because the sunnier months make for more vibrant colors. Anyway here are a few that I liked:

February – Bryant Pond Farm

March – Canoes, Roaring Brook Lake

April – Fiat 500 through Tires

May – Eirah and Geese

June – Facade, Le Bouchon restaurant, Cold Spring

July – Sailboats – Roaring Brook Lake

August – Butterfly

September – Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks at the Church of the American Martyrs, Putnam Valley, NY

October – Apple picking

November – Hessian Lake, Bear Mountain

December – View from Mount Beacon

2013 Favourites – Black and White

December 31, 2013 by Howard Dale Posted in Black & White, Miscellaneous Tagged gallery Leave a comment

January – Divya reading

It’s the end of the year so I thought I’d look back on some of the pictures I’ve taken. Many of them we black and white. Here are my favorites, month by month.