Sleepy Hollow Cemetery WAW

Sleepy Hollow Starbuck
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/100sec, 1600ISO, 24mm

Halloween is just around the corner, and I found my travels taking me to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. No headless horseman, but lots of cool old tombstones and mausoleums, including a Rockefeller. 

All the walking made me dead tired, stopped at this Starbuck, but it was missing the S. 

Watkins Glen Long Exposure HDR

In the beginning of August, my family took a trip to the Finger Lakes. That included a hike through the Gorge Trail of Watkins Glen State Park. We had taken this trail when our kid was 10 months old, so she was in the Baby Bjorn. I didn't have a nice travel tripod at that time, and had thought about how cool it would be to do some long exposure shots of the waterfalls. I have since obtained the Joby GorillaPod travel tripod for my dSLR, and made sure it was packed. What I didn't take with me on the hike was a polarizer filter, to cut down on the light reflections off of the water, leaves, and rocks. 

My family was constantly waiting for me up ahead, as I was stopping to frame a shot, take a couple exposures, possibly reframe. A lot of the time was me just waiting for people to move out of the shot.

This water fall photograph is composed of three images blended into a High Dynamic Range image. The exposure times were 4 seconds, 8 seconds, and 15 seconds. After the image was combined, I also then create a layer of the 8 second exposure ontop of the HDR image, and erased everything but the waterfall. I wasn't happy with the way the waterfall looked in the HDR image, so the "normal" exposure shot was used. 

Watkins Glenn Waterfall Long Exposure HDR
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/16, 4s + 8s + 15s, 320ISO, 105mm

Museum Monday (Lino Tagliapietra's "Endeavor")

I have recently posted about the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY, and wanted to share a few more shots of Lino Tagliapietra's "Endeavor" in the Contemporary Arts + Design Wing.

Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/500sec, 3200ISO, 24mm

Going not that long after the museum opened allowed for less people, so I was able to get these empty shots.

Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/500sec, 3200ISO, 47mm

The daylight filtered through the skylights and the white walls made photographing this wing a breeze after bumping up the ISO to 3200.

Birds, ships, or whales?
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/500sec, 3200ISO, 55mm

Sunset on the Farm

September Sunset on the Farm
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/14, 1/80sec, 2000ISO, 35mm

One of the venues that I end up at frequently is Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Westchester County. It is a nice break from the urban environment of the city. Autumn is coming, which means that the scenery will be all sorts of shades of ambers and browns, my favorite time of year!

I snapped this shot when we were waiting for the wedding ceremony to end in another area of the property. The sun was setting, the cattle were grazing, and a flock of birds kept flying about. I love how long the shadows are in this shot.

Wide Angle Winery Wednesday

Six Mile Creek Vineyard in Ithaca, NY
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/640sec, 640ISO, 24mm

The Finger Lakes region has over 100 wineries, and is New York State's largest wine producing region. Our recent vacation took us to the area between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake.

Wagner
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/250sec, 160ISO, 24mm

We made sure to make room in our car for a case to bring back to Queens. Our wine rack had been close to vacant anyways. 

Montezuma Winery
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/200sec, 160ISO, 24mm

Wide Angle Watkins Glen

My family and I recently just took a short vacation to the Finger Lakes region of New York State. One of the activities we did was a hike through Watkins Glen State Park through the Gorge Trail. The Finger Lakes has been experiencing a drought, so the water levels were really low compared with past trips my wife and I made, though it was still stunningly beautiful. 

Gazing at the Gorges
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/160sec, 1600ISO, 24mm

This shot was captured from the Central Cascade Bridge, close to the lower entry point. This is actually a composite of two images, both shot from the same vantage point. The first image was the Central Cascade sign sharp in focus, and then everything else blurred out. The second shot, everything below the bridge was sharp and the bridge was out of focus. I combined the two images to try to get an entire shot in focus.  

Museum Monday Corning Museum of Glass

I visited the Corning Museum of Glass recently, and took an obscene amount of pictures. Still going through them, but I wanted to post a photograph I am really proud of, as it looks like it could be the advertisement for the Museum's Contemporary Art + Design wing, which just happened to open last year. 

Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/500sec, 3200ISO, 24mm
Nancy Bowen's "Red Root + Running Cold" in the background of Lino Tagliapietra's "Endeavor"

We had arrived at the museum two hours after it opened, so I was expecting people everywhere. When we first entered this room, a tour was happening just left of the frame of this photo with about 15 people. I looked at some of the other pieces, learning the light in the room and seeing what worked for shooting the glass art pieces. I noticed that the room was starting to clear out, and was able to grab this shot with no people in the frame. 

If one ever finds themselves anywhere near Corning, NY, I highly recommend a visit to the Corning Museum of Glass. It surpassed my expectations, and all in our party enjoyed it, even the (almost) 5 year old!