So here are the remaining photos I have from my recent trip to Georgia. There are some good ones there of Lake Oconee and the Ritz-Carlton, but I only used the iPhone so the non-Hipstamatic ones came out just so-so. A few Aperture filters added some depth to them, but looking at them now I can see clearly that there is no replacement for my DSLR.
From now on, I’ll most likely only take Hipstamatic photos with my iPhone.
Enjoy the pics.
My daughter told me this morning that I need to shave my beard, so I figured I’d immortalize it first.
I will try to renegotiate with her tonight.
Been a bit of a dry spell on the blog for a few weeks, mostly due to work and another semester of teaching kicking off, but I do have a bunch of photos to share from a recent work trip to Greensboro, Georgia.
For the first set, here are some Hipstamatic photos taken from the airplane looking out across the clouds. We took one of those smaller commuter planes for one leg of the journey, and they don’t go up as high, giving us a pretty level view of the cloud cover.
I like how these came out.
Saw this wonderful old house in Babylon Village, New York today. How great would it be to fix this up into a studio?
There’s not much I can really say about this. The pink sands, the turquoise waters and the green vegetation frame some spectacular beaches in Bermuda. Here are a few pictures I was able to get.
Don’t you love finding little rainbows inside of your house?
When leaves fell off the tress in woods near my home it was clear that I’d lost a lot of trees in 2012. We had strong storms all summer, followed by Hurricane Irene toppling trees throughout my neighborhood. Fall wasn’t any kinder. It was wet, it was windy and it even delivered a freak snowstorm on Halloween. Add that up and the trees just couldn’t take it. Many fell down, taking other ones with them, while the older ones, perhaps already dying for years now, rotted away and fell apart.
But it seems like this has happened everywhere. Driving through Stony Brook University the other day I saw just as many trees toppled in woods lining campus. Even driving north a week ago to see my parents I saw dozens of bare tress in Westchester County along Route 684 knocked down and splintered.
The Associated Press picked up on this a few days ago, focusing on the parklands and gardens in the Northeast and New York City that were hit hard.
Uprooted trees and snapped-off boughs were evident after each storm, but not until this month, when surviving trees finally lost their leaves and arborists found hidden cracks and other damage, was the full scope of the devastation appreciated, managers said.
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Forrest estimated that 3,000 trees were lost or damaged at the garden in the Bronx. In Manhattan’s Central Park, more than 1,000 of the 23,000 trees have been removed or are likely to go, said Neil Calvanese, vice president for operations at the Central Park Conservancy, which cares for the park under contract with the city.
I haven’t seen any local stories on this yet. Have you noticed the same thing?
Below are some photos from my woods so you can see what I mean.
There’s something surreal about this.
