nature

Catskills

This is the first same day blog I’ve done, so everything is fresh off the sensor. Today I spent the day up in the Catskills enjoying some fresh air and nature. It’s always a pleasure to get out of the city and away from the hustle. While the day was far from perfect - it was overcast for most the day - but I got a couple good photos.

I will say there was just so much to do and see in the Catskills I didn’t even scratch the surface. Which almost certainly means many more trips to see more. I’ve been dying to try some astrophotography and it seems like there are some perfect sites up there that would be perfectly dark.

I’m going to keep it short for now, as it’s been a long day that started around 5am, so I’ll let everyone just enjoy the photos.

Walk in the Park

I had the pleasure yesterday of doing some backup photography for a run on Randall’s Island - a relatively large recreational island situated between Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan.

What you might notice about my page is that people is not something that I typically take photos of and certainly not action shots. As such I don’t really have the equipment to do this type of photography - I have a series of primes, more than half of which are manual focus. As you might imagine, shooting folks running with a manual lens is not easy. However, I was just played backup to another photographer so it wasn’t a huge issue.

And of course I got a couple keepers:

I did get a chance to do some other photography while I was out there, as the island has been nicely maintained and they have a great variety of plants and flowers. So as I was walking back from taking photos of the runners, I took a couple shots for myself.

You can see the results below:

That’s it for now. Hopefully, the weather will get a little less grey here and photos of fall will begin to pop up on this blog.

Till next time.