Found while walking around the neighborhood, shot using the new Hipstamatic Bucktown pack (black&white and infrared). Click on any pic to see them in slideshow format.
Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Icicles! 2 comments
Melancholy sunset 4 comments
A wintry sunset over our little town beach:
Canon 5d Mark II EF 16-35mm
ISO 200
f/22
30 sec
Water tower with birds Leave a comment
Captured along I-95.
iPhone, adjusted with Snapseed
Big Sky Sunset Leave a comment
Caught this on the one sunny day that we were here, viewed from our living room window. What a gorgeous part of the country!
Canon 7D, EF24-70mm
ISO 200
f/8
1/400 sec
HDR, black&white conversion in Lightroom
Venus over evening calm Leave a comment
Lovely sunset yesterday with Venus the only thing visible in the sky.
Iphone, edited in Snapseed
Frozen beach frolic Leave a comment
Our dog Mario enjoyed the first snow of the year, especially on the beach at low tide:
iPhone, Hipstamatic app
Frosty leaves Leave a comment
Captured these on a cold morning while walking our dog. I love how the frost gives everything a bit of additional texture, which stands out especially strong when the light is low during sunrise.
Lonely tree at sunrise Leave a comment
This tree feels so lost and lonesome to me every time I walk past it while I’m taking the dog out. Captured in the marsh near Clinton Harbor.
iPhone, adjustments in Adobe Lightroom
Hawk hunting at dawn 3 comments
Captured this Red-tailed Hawk as he was surveying the field behind our house for his breakfast during sunrise. The other images were shot after I followed him to a tree that allowed me to get closer.
And this is the one when he finally had enough:
Antique Village Leave a comment
Not quite, I just used an antique filter to capture a neighbor’s house.
iPhone, Hipstamatic
Happy New Year! 1 comment
May your 2017 be as bright and lovely as this sunset (view over Clinton Harbor).
Canon 5D Mark II, EF 16-35mm
ISO 100
f/18
1/30 sec
Winter morning walk 4 comments
Walking the dog at the same early, but now darker, time (6:30), and during a recent snowfall, provided new perspectives:
iPhone, Hipstamatic app
Bullseye 4 comments
Top of a pillar of the wooden bridge that connects to our town beach in Clinton, captured after the first frost of winter:
iPhone, edited in Adobe Lightroom
Fall Sunset 4 comments
Captured on Clinton beach using a long exposure:
Canon 5D Mark II, EF 16-35 f/4
ISO 250
f/10
30 sec
Bike break at sunset Leave a comment
Someone had biked to our beach and parked their bike while enjoying the sunset.
Canon 5D Mark II, EF 16-35mm f/4
ISO 2500
f/7.1
1/400 sec
Winter is here! 1 comment
First snow in CT produced some nice photo ops right in our backyard:
Sunburst over Connecticut Leave a comment
Winter sunset at Clinton Beach.
Canon 5D Mark II, EF 16-35mm f/4
ISO 250
f/22
1/40 sec
Outdoor painting 2 comments
Our little harbor often attracts landscape painters – and I enjoy including them in my landscape photography:
Canon 7D, EF-S 10-22mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/100 sec
3 exposure HDR
Museum Abstractions Leave a comment
Staircase, pedestrian tunnel, and roof at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Manhattan Skyline 2 comments
As seen at sunset from far, far away (i.e. the Jersey Turnpike).
iPhone, adjusted with Snapseed
Old New York 2 comments
Near Wall Street in lower Manhattan, a few buildings remind us of how it looked in the early days before skyscrapers took over the island. The second be looks like a precursor of the Flatiron Building to me.
Canon Powershot G12
Song cover photo published 11 comments
I’m very pleased to see that one of my photos has been turned into the cover for a song on SoundCloud.
Here’s the song cover, followed by the original, taken in Marin while walking through the old army installations surrounding San Francisco.
Thank you, Gabriele Margurno from Argentina!
Fall Sunrise 4 comments
One last shot of fall foliage before it all turns grey…
Canon Powershot G12
ISO 400
f/5.0
1/250 sec
Sunrise in Vermont 7 comments
Caught these horses at dawn in Stowe, Vermont.
Canon 5D Mark II, EF 24-70mm
ISO 125
f/13
1/80 sec
Roots of Vermont 4 comments
I discovered lots of interesting gnarled trees and their roots hugging the boulders strewn around Smuggler’s Notch near Stowe. Click on any picture to see them in slideshow format.
Canon 5d Mark II, EFL 16-24mm
B&W conversion in Adobe Lightroom
A walk in the Vermont woods Leave a comment
More scenes from our brief visit to Vermont:
Vermont foliage 4 comments
Loving the colors of Vermont! A brief weekend excursion to Stowe, VT, offered many photo opportunities like these:
Canon 5 Mark II, EFL 24-70mm
Take-off at sunset 1 comment
Captured this seagull as it took off from its perch on a pier, while kayaking in Clinton Harbor and looking straight at the sunset:
Canon 7D, 200mm lens
ISO 200
f/5.6
1/5000 sec
Mario reigns on the beach 1 comment
Captured our dog Mario on the beach using the iPhone Hipstamatic app:
iphone, Hipstamatic
Factory on the horizon Leave a comment
Captured this factory in New Haven while crossing the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge:
iPhone, edited with Snapseed
Blue Heron, Walking 8 comments
Came across this poem by Julie Bruck in a recent edition of the New Yorker, which matched the photos I took just the day before:
Not one of Mr. Balanchine’s soloists had feet this articulate,
the long bones explicitly spread, then retracted,
even more finely detailed than Leonardo’s plans for his flying machines.
And all this for a stroll, a secondary function,
not the greatdramatic spread and shadow of those pterodactyl wings.
This walking seems determined less by bird volition or
calculations of the small yellow eye
than by an accident of breeze, pushing the bird on a diagonal,
the great feet executing their tendus and lifts in the slowest of increments,
hesitation made exquisitely dimensional,
as if the feet thought themselves through each minute contribution to propulsion,
these outsized apprehenders of grasses and stone, snatchers of mouse and vole,
these mindless magnificents that any time now
will trail their risen bird like useless bits of leather.
Don’t show me your soul, Balanchine used to say, I want to see your foot.
Prayer at LaGuardia 2 comments
Captured these cab drivers taking a prayer break before resuming their shift, under a freeway ramp.
New York, old and new 5 comments
Loved the juxtaposition of the old and new, and how the buildings seamlessly connected visually.
iPhone, edited in Snapseed
New York street scenes 1 comment
A few impressions from my latest trip into NYC:
iPhone, Hipstamatic
Paris couples Leave a comment
Paris is great for all kinds of couples. Here are just a few examples.
The kissing couple:
The ‘I’d rather spend my time with my cellphone’ couple:
The fashionable tourist couple (with matching hats):
All kinds of couples, basically:
Paris cafe culture 1 comment
Spotted these wonderful characters in various cafes in Paris:
Canon Powershot G12
Crooked Paris 2 comments
So many streets in Paris feature buildings that seem to lean against each other, each one at a different angle.
A visit to the Bois de Boulogne 4 comments
This lovely park contains wonderful distractions: lakes with row boats, a childrens’ amusement park, endless trails through sun-dappled woods, the new Louis Vuitton Foundation building, and much much more.
The quietest spots in Paris Leave a comment
Are its beautiful cemeteries. Recently I visited two: cimetière Montparnasse and cimetière Montmartre. Click on any photo to see them in slide show format.
Paris Icons 5 comments
Yes, just about everyone knows these and they’ve been photographed from all possible angles – but when you’re in Paris it’s hard NOT to take pictures of some of the icons that make this city so lovely and unique:
Paris Sunsets 4 comments
Every evening on my recent trip to Paris rewarded me with gorgeous sunsets. Click on any pic to see them in slideshow format.
Paris Passages 4 comments
On a recent trip to Paris, I strolled through several of the beautiful covered shopping arcades that were built in the early 1800’s. Click on any picture to see them in slide show format.
I was inspired by this lovely post on a blog I follow, which has great insider tips about Paris. Thanks Theodora!
Evening stroll through Montreal 1 comment
Captured during a quick business trip to Montreal:
An art project guided people throughout the town to streets where silent films were projected on empty walls:
Summer at Mohonk Lake 3 comments
Captured these while at Mohonk Mountain House for a business meeting. Click on any picture to see them in slideshow view.
Scenes of Montreal Leave a comment
Captured these on a recent business trip to Montreal:
Canon 5d Mark II, EFL-24-70mm
Scenes of a flight Leave a comment
Shot these on the way to Montreal.
Preflight check:
Outside the window:
Arrival:
Birds Eye View of Manhattan 3 comments
Captured these while descending towards LaGuardia airport in New York on a gorgeous sunny summer day.
iphone, edited with Snapped
Rush hour 1 comment
Captured at Grand Central Terminal, late afternoon.
iPhone, Hipstamatic
Summer is here! Leave a comment
And the kayak slots at Clinton Beach are packed!
Summer Sunset at Low Tide 8 comments
Took our dog Mario out for a walk during low tide about an hour after sunset – and we had the entire beach to ourselves!
Canon 5d Mark II, 40mm 2.8 lens
ISO 3200
f/2.8
1/20 sec
Snapshots For Sore Eyes 