Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
In the past I’ve included a lengthy section detailing places we’ve visited; friends who’ve visited us; events we’ve attended etc. However, this site is devoted to photography and this type of content isn’t photography related so I’ve decided to no longer include this section. My photography continues to be rather opportunistic i.e. I always carry…
Taken at Rockwood Hall. It was late in the afternoon and the light was golden as the sun went down over the Palisades. I tried a low angle to emphasize their mass. The first couple of shots I took excluded the trees in the background, but I decided that a few of them gave more…
I’ve posted pictures of stairs/staircases before so I guess I must like them: Exterior staircase – Chambord Stone staircase Four staircases Boscobel – Interiors Stairs A walk to Rockwood Hall (stairs pictures along with others) Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park, NY (staircase pictures along with others) Angkor (stairs picture along with others) I particularly liked the…
In an earlier post (Approaching Rockwood Hall) I mentioned that we (myself and our dog, Harley) had an encounter with a horse and rider. I don’t think he’d ever seen a horse before and he was very excited – so much so that I had to pull him back to stop him from running in…
We had visitors from the UK: old friends from university days who I hadn’t seen for over 20 years. The had said that they liked to walk so I took them on a selection of walks in the Hudson Valley. On one of the walks we went down the Old Croton Aqueduct trail to Rockwood…