Fun With A Drone

 

Stan come out today because he wanted to fly his drone,  He hasn't flown it in a while, and, by law, he can't fly it in New York City.  And also I needed help with a new version of Photoshop that I bought, and it is quite different from my current version which I bought in 2012!  So we had fun flying the drone, and here is a photograph that the drone took of the two of us.  Then I cooked his favorite meal that he loves to eat when he is at our house, Mediterranean Salmon.  After dinner we did some more Photoshop work.  What a great day!  Oh, the white "H" on the blue circle?  Stan's drone is SO smart that it is unbelievable...  It remembers by GPS where it started hot and it flies to that spot, then its camera sees the "H" and the drone lands automatically!  That is beyond astounding!

Fall Comes to our Back Yard!

I was changing into my riding gear to do a ride today, and when I looked out of our bedroom window,  there was this magnificent yellow tree, ablaze with color!  I have been watching this tree, but I had not seen it backlit by the sun, as it was today at 3 PM!  So I grabbed my camera, and then had to open the inner window sash, and then lift up the lower storm window, so that there were no windows between my lens and this scene.  I have been looking for any kind of fall color close by, and finally found it!  Oh happy day, and I had a great bike ride because it was 57 degrees out, and that means I don't have to bundle up that much to ride in these temps.

 

A Little Bit of My History

I was in the attic looking for a book.  I saw a plastic sheet with a number 35mm color transparencies in it.  I was absolutely stunned when I held up the sheet to the light and saw about a dozen portraits of Gloria Steinem!  I nearly fell down!  I remember this portrait session with her,  back in 1974.  It was so cool to be photographing her because she was one of the more famous leaders in the Women's Movement at the time!  There was a little bit of "I can't believe I am here photographing her" the day I was there!  She was really nice and generous with her time while I was photographing her.  Wow, what an amazing job I had!

American Vernacular

I was on my bike ride today, and every day I ride, I climb a short, steep hill and pass this house, and a couple others that seem quite old, based on their architectural style.  I am guessing that these were the first houses in the neighborhood.  I was amazed to see this motorcycle parked right in front as I went by!  So I stopped immediately and got out my iPhone, the only camera I carry with me on my bike rides. The quality is OK, but I wish I had my SONY a7 with me instead. But I love the shot!

 

Ferns & Vines in Fall

I took one of my walks down to where the old power plant was.  It is almost a three mile walk, so when I was walking back up Laurel avenue,  I was not looking as carefully for photographs as I am when I start my walks.  But as I was just about to walk up my driveway, I looked down at the fern bank and saw this scene.  It is interesting how many different colors there are here, with green vines. and ferns of many colors.  Beauty as Fall fades into Winter.

 

The Last Roses

I looked across the side yard and was surprised to see four roses still on the rose bushes.  The roses have done well this year, there have been so many blossoms on these bushes all season long.  So when I saw them, I wanted to show that the whole bush was almost empty.  So I tried different compositions, and I liked this one best, with the whole right side of the image just an empty rose bush.  Which makes the bright red roses more obvious on the other side of the image.

 

Caumsett X

 

OK, so this is my last post from my hiking trip at Caumsett State Park.  And once again I am fascinated by the beautiful grasses there.  These grasses appear different in that the golden ones seem to be emerging from another type of grass that is lower, and which is green.  I have no idea what these all are.  But in this photograph I like that these are tufts of one kind of grass are interspersed with the other, lower kind of grass.   To me this scene is just beautiful.  And I promise not to post any more photographs from this trip!  As they say on Monty Python "And now for something completely different."