9/18/17 ~ at Rist Camp / Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) • µ4/3 camera
9/18/17 ~ at Rist Camp / Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) • iPhone 7s camera module
The view from the front porch at Rist Camp is a nearly never-ending display of land, sky and air (aka: mist and fog). It can be both mesmerizing - as in, I can't believe I just spent 3 hours just sitting here - and therapeutic. And, of course, a great place to make pictures while sitting on your butt.
tree / Wild Center ~ Tupper Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)
the wife and Teddy Roosevelt ~ Newcomb. NY - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)
Teddy / morning coffee • lumberjack event ~ Newcomb, NY in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)
ANSWER: this weekend past was the annual Teddy Roosevelt Weekend celebration in Newcomb, NY. Why Newcomb?
ANSWER: Teddy Roosevelt was climbimg Mt. Marcy - the trailhead begins in Newcomb - when he was summons by a guide to get down the mountain and proceed with all due haste to the train station in North Creek. After the midnight buckboard wagon ride - 30 miles in 6 hours through rain and mud - to North Creek, Teddy was informed on the station platform that President McKinley had died - from an assassin's bullet - and that he was now POTUS.
Newcomb is the location of Rist Camp where the wife and I spend 5 weeks in late August - late September. So, the wife, who has something akin to a crush on Teddy, makes attendance mandatory at some of the festivites. FYI, at this weekend's event, Teddy told me that he liked my glasses.
rock face / Robert ~ Henderson Lake - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)
on Henderson Lake
crossing the Hudson River
Hudson River immediately below Henderson Lake outlet
For over 175 years, Henderson Lake has been the unobtainium paddling destination of the ardent paddling crowd. The lake and a vast tract of surrounding land was owned by a series of mining corporations and was strictly off limit to the public. However, in 2008 the tract of land and the lake were added to the Adirondack Forest Perserve with Forever Wild wilderness designation.
Henderson Lake's other claim to fame is that it is considered to be the source of the Hudson River inasmuch as, where the water flows out of the lake and creates a river - better labled a stream / brook - is where it is first designated as the Hudson. Lake Tear of the Clouds, the highest pond in New York State located on the upper reaches of Mt. Marcey, is often said to be the source of the Hudson. It is, in fact, the originating source of water which eventually makes its way into the Hudson. However, the water divides itself, while passing into and through a number of ponds / small lakes, into a number of brooks and rivers which do flow into the Hudson at one point or another.
1950s era Dodge ~ North Creek, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)
Teddy Roosevelt in North Creek ~ history - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)
On a related note, Apple is introducing a new iPhone today. No information / rumors, re: the camera module. The only module upgrade that would have me pining for a new iPhone would be a larger sensor or some other improvement to the current sensor which allows for improved resolution.
All pictures in the entry made with the iPhone 7s camera module.
steps / Rist camp ~ Newcomb, NY • in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) MFT picture
3 mammals / Rist camp
slug / Rist camp
Ryder sleeping / Rist camp
totem ~ Adirondack Museum / Blue Mt.Lake, NY • in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) - MFT picture
rainy wisps ~ Rist Camp
midnight fog ~ Rist Camp
dog / Ryder ~ Rist Camp
Re: the new snapshot pictures. I totally blew it over the Labor Day weekend ... a couple from Philadelphia visited for 4 days and I didn't make a single picture of them. As the wife commented, "Old habits are hard to break."
However, there is a new group - 3 adults, 2 children - arriving tomorrow. Needless to write, I'm locked and loaded and I won't make the same mistake again.
autumnal runoff grate ~ Long Lake, NY • in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) picture made with a "real" camera
rainy day # 1 ~Rist camp
rainy day # 2 ~Rist camp
rainy day # 3 ~Rist camp
Were I to "get serious" about making pictures with the iPhone, there are number of apps which, when installed, appropriate the iPhone's native camera software and replace it with their own. These apps allow for incredible control over many picture making options. Options such as allowing for RAW capture, control over ISO, focus, shutter speed and so on. In effect and actual practice, the apps turn the iPhone camera module into a picture making tool which closely resembles and rivals an entry level digital camera with manual controls.
Then, of course, there are iPhone processing apps which allow for near desktop software level contol - converting and processing RAW files, highlight, shadow, tonal / contast, WB and noise reduction capabilities. There is even one processing app which allows for identifying and changing / deleting individual processing steps at any time without effecting any other processing steps. AND, the finished file can be saved with those processing steps intact for changes at any time in the future!
In any event, I am trying to resist most of these advanced capability apps. While I have acquired a few, I am endevoring to keep my snapshot picture making as simple as possible in order to keep within the snapshot picture making paradigm ... aka: you press the button, we do the rest.