ku # 4014 / the new snapshot # 130-132 ~ theodore rex

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)

What was Teddy Roosevelt doing in Newcomb, NY? you might ask.

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.

ku # 4013 / the new snapshot # 126-128 ~ paddling

rock face / Robert ~ Henderson Lake - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

on Henderson Lake

crossing the Hudson River

Hudson River immediately below Henderson Lake outlet

The better part of yesterday was spent on Henderson Lake, a portage-in wilderness lake located in the High Peaks wilderness area of the Adirondacks.

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.

ku # 1414 / the new snapshot 104-07 ~ making conversations

sundown / Rist Camp ~ Newcomb,NY • in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

painted roadside erratic

sunlight in sink

sunlight on wall thru old rolled glass
 

surveying the hunting grounds

Tuesday morning and I am finally settled in at Rist Camp. After a late afternnon arrival on Saturday, Sunday was spent driving to and from Canada for a hockey game. Monday was home and back for pet retrieval along with some other things.

The computer is all set up and I am catching up on creating my end of some PHOTOGRAPHS IN CONVERSATION for submission to a LENSCRATCH online exhibition. It's fun stuff and I'll most likely try to continue having "conversations" after the exhibition exercise is finished.

Anyone intersted in having some "conversations"?

all pictures made with iPhone 7 Plus camera module.

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ku # 1414 / the new snapshot # 79-81 ~ an iPhone camera module update

Joy Garden (iPhone picture), Au Sable Forks, NY in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

 bridge in the chasm

looking up in the chasm

In my ongoing experiment with the iPhone 7 Plus camera module, I have found that the camera module is a more than competent picture making device. I have also found that the Snapseed photo editing app is quite proficient and very versatile as a bit of processing software. The Joy Gardenpictue in this entry was made using both.

And, although I have no way of illustrating it on the internet, I have been making very good looking 18"x18" prints from the iPhone made and processed / edited files. Prints that, when viewed from a print size appropriate distance, are virtually indistinguishable from prints of the same size made from a "real" camera with a 12mp sensor.

All-in-all, some very good stuff.

the new snapshot # 58-60 ~ flora edition

As I have been making my the new snapshot pictures, I knew it was only a matter of time until an iPhone picture juried exhibition opportunity would appear. Lo and behold, it appeared today in my email inbox.

I have until August 21st to decide what to submit and, to be honest, the submissions may or may not be just the new snapshot pictures or they might be some other iPhone technique variation. The only restriction for submissions is that the pictures be made and processed on the iPhone (or other such cell phone). Consequently, I have some time to screw around (iPhone picture making wise) to experiment with some different referents and techniques.

Looking forward to it. And, over the next day or two, I'll have more info on the exhibition for anyone who might be interested in submitting pictures.

the new snapshot # 52-57 ~ 70 years under my belt

Haven't been around the blog for a while because, begining last Thrsday, I have had an extended birthday week - big party last weekend with 60 friends, family and neighbors and extended stays by a few. Good time had by all.

During that time I have been making lots of the new snapshot pictures in addition to dinking beer and scotch and smoking cigars. However, life has returned to nearly "normal" so I am back in the blogging saddle once again. And, I will be working on refining my the new snapshot picture M.O.

Ever onward.