The world through my eyes…
My new camera was enough inspiration to get out and take the night-time shots of West Point that I have been threatening to take for the last year or so. I shot these with my mono pod. Bad move. This kind of shooting requires a real-deal tripod. The results were really pleasing in their own way, however, and it gave me a chance to mess with the D300’s admirable arsenal of shooting tricks.
Here is another shot from the same series, with a different treatment.
The Winooski river runs through the center of Montpelier, and the buildings that live right above it are hundreds of years old, in some cases. The thing that struck me after I took this, is that it seemed like it was somewhere else. New Orleans? It just breaks away from my comfy preconceived notions of what Vermont looks like.
Ran across this old drain on a *mostly* defunct dam in the middle of the woods this weekend. For context, here is the “dam”:
This is the HDR version of a black and white photo that I posted a while back. I appreciate both versions, but this one is so much more like I remember it.
We took an extended trip out today to get various things done. Phoebe accompanied us. Partly for her sake, and partly to make sure that we wouldn’t be tempted to go anywhere that doesn’t like dogs (nothing inside). It was pretty perfect.
This was the first shoot in what I hope to be a series of location shoots around my area. There are a whole host of old cemeteries in the northeast with some rather amazing artwork in them. I am hoping to capture a bunch of images from them for a series on religious iconography.
Taken at the river front in Cold Spring. I went there for a completely different shot, but I bungled it badly. On the way out, I thought, “that’s a neat piece of drift wood.” No tripod. HDR shot from the hip and it came out better than I could have hoped.
I know it’s impolite to toot your own horn, but I really like this one.
This a shot from the river-side of the Glenclyffe building. It was built in the 20s for the Franciscans. It is owned by OSI now, and is semi-public. Even in the warm sunlight it was creepy.
This shot gives you a sense of just how massive the fort is at west point. That is the Hudson river in between me and the buildings.
A slightly different view and treatment from the same series.
Took this while hiking past Arden point. This is some building near West Point. Originally, I thought it was the Thayer Hotel, but it turns out that it doesn’t quite look that way. I would love if someone could help me to identify it.
The day was very hazy. I was very uncertain as to how this image would come out, but after some fiddling with the tone mapping settings I have to say that I am super pleased. It is fascinating to me that the HDR processing filtered out a lot of the “noise” that was introduced by the haze to make the building look so sharp in contrast to the mountains around it.
I am really glad I got off my duff today to get out for this hike. It is easy to forget how much cool stuff there is so close to where I live that I haven’t seen yet.
