Raquette River ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
Algonquin Mt. / sunset / -10F ~ (embiggenable) • Pentax 110 SLR / Kodacolor negative film
Algonquin Mt. / sunrise/ -15F ~ (embiggenable) • Pentax 110 SLR / Kodacolor negative film
Raquette Lake ~ (embiggenable) • µ4/3
Elk Lake ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
my hometown ~ (embiggenable) • µ4/3
the flume ~ West Branch Au Sable River (embiggenable) • µ4/3
horse farm ~ (embiggenable) • µ4/3
KINDA THOUGHT IT WAS TIME TO POST some of my landscape pictures, lest anyone think that I only make pictures of my kitchen sink.
Over the past 20 years of living in the Adirondack Park-it's actually not a park but rather a forest preserve-I have certainly made quite a number of landscape pictures of the place. However, it would be misleading to write that I have concentrated on doing so. Haphazard is more like it and the reason for that is simply that there are more than enough other picture makers who are quite devoted to making Adirondack landscape pictures. Pictures that, for the most part, I would label as "calender" quality pictures.
Nevertheless, I do live in an amazing place....
The Adirondack "Park"-6 million + acres) is larger than the state of Vermont. Approximately half of the park is state owned and, with exception of the 120 towns, villages and hamlets (120,000 residents), most of the park is protected by an Article in the NYS Constitution as Forever Wild.
Within the park there are 3,000 lakes and ponds, 30,000 miles of rivers and streams, 2,000 miles of hiking trails and hundreds of rolling hills and mountains-46 of which are over 4,000 ft (clustered in the High Peaks Region near Lake Placid). And, it's worth mentioning that Lake Placid has hosted 2 Olympic Winter Games, 1932 / 1980.
It's also with mentioning that the 1980 Olympic facilities are still in use for World Cup events, most prominently, the Bobsled / Luge / Skeleton track. A track on which I have won 2 Silver Medals in amateur Regional Luge competition.
... and I probably should get out more for the expressed purpose of making landscape pictures.
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Although, the wife and I and occasionally Hugo (seen here at age 5 during one of his first self-propelled wilderness canoe trips), do get out onto wilderness waterways in our canoes for extended stays. After all, we do live in a giant outdoor playground.