Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
We had our first snowfall of 2024 last night. As usual all kinds of dire warnings were issued. We were told that 10 inches of snow was possible.
This is what we got (taken in my garden). I doubt that it’s even 2 inches.
Taken with an iPhone SE II.
A friend invited me to spend New Year’s Eve with himself and his family (including a brother and his wife visiting from Boston, MA.). We had agreed that I would stay over so no-one would have to go out on the roads after midnight.
I woke up early, before everyone else and went down to the living room to read until the others awoke. As I was sitting there the sun suddenly started to stream through their front window, falling on this spoon. I thought it might make an interesting black and white photograph.
Taken with an Apple iPhone SE II.
This pond was once the outdoor pool of a grand resort hotel in Briarcliff Manor, NY – the village where I live. It was called the Briarcliff Lodge and it was built by Walter W. Law, the founder of Briarcliff Manor.
To get a feel for what it must have been like to have been staying there during its heyday in the 1920s take a look at this short (around three minute) video: A Video Tour of the Briarcliff Lodge.
Taken with a Sony A6000 and Venus Optics Laowa 85mm f5.6
According to Mary Cheever in her wonderful book on Briarcliff Manor: The Changing Langscape:
The “Century Homestead” as it is named in the Beer’s Atlas of 1867, on Chappaqua Road has been called the Reuben Whitson House. However, since there are no Whitsons on the Mt. Pleasant census rolls before 1830, it was probably another Washburn House (cf. The Washburn House).
Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-70 f3.5-5.6 OSS.
Thought there might be a picture, so in I went. Somehow the machines seemed to require a black and white treatment (see picture below).
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Sigma 18-50mm f2.8