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.

civilized ku # 5102 / diptych # 218 / the new snapshot # 122-125 ~ what's old is new

1950s era Dodge ~ North Creek, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

Teddy Roosevelt in North Creek ~ history - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

At just past the midway point of my/our Rist Camp stay, I have made a picture book (Shutterfly) which is comprised of 40 the new snapshot pictures. All of the pictures have been made during my/our stay to date and, at this picture making rate, I should return home with 80+ the new snapshot pictures.

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.

civilized ku # 5100 / the new snapshot # 116-18 ~ what was I thinking?

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

While I am at Rist Camp, I have been making lots of the new snapshot pictures. I have also been making an effort - so far, successfully - to make MTF format pictures (aka: "real" camera pictures) as well.

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.

civilized ku # 5099 / the new snapshot # 113-15 ~the iPhone rabbit hole

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

As I continue down the road of making snapshots with the iPhone camera module, it has been difficult to not be sucked down the rabbit hole of iPhone camera apps. The options thereof seem to be staggering in number and capabiities.

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.

civilized ku # 5098 / the new snapshot (redux) ~ a winner

at the grocery store ~ Long Lake, NY • in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable) - picture made with a "real" camera

soon to be on exhibit ~ Photo Place Gallery • Middlebury, VT. (emboggenable)

I received an email on Friday last which read in part:

Thank you for submitting your work for PhotoPlace Gallery’s juried exhibition, "iPhone Imagery". Juror Karen Divine has chosen 31 photographs for the gallery exhibition, and an additional 31 photographs for display in the Online Gallery on the PhotoPlace Gallery website. It’s a wonderful collection of work.

I am very pleased to tell you that one of your images was selected for exhibition in our Middlebury, Vermont gallery. Congratulations!

I am delighted that, after just a couple months since starting my the new snapshot project, one of my the new snapshot pictures was deemed worthy of inclusion in a gallery juried exhibition. I am especially delighted inasmuch as, after viewing the website of the exibition's judge, I didn't think that I had much of chance of being accepted. Coincidentally, the Bakery Window picture is the first the new snapshot picture to be printed large, framed and hung on a wall in my house.

FYI, all of the pictures accepted to the exhibit can be viewed HERE. The pictures are, as my email stated, "a a wonderful collection of (iPhone) work.

conversations # 1-4 / the new snapshot #112 ~ photo conversations

Hobson / Nilsson

Nilsson / Hobson

M. Hobson / A. Hobson

M. Hobson / A. Hobson

Rist camp daze ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK (embiggenable)

As previously mentioned, I have been involved in creating photo conversations for submission to a LENSCRATCH online exhibition. The idea for the exhibition is for a picture maker to partner with another picture maker and connect one of your images with another photographer’s image that begins a story.

I reached out to 2 picture makers .... one whose work with which I am well acquainted - my son, The Cinemascapist - and another with whose work I am familar (by visiting his blog) but have never communicated with - Peter Nilsson.

The results are presented in this entry. Although, the 4 which are presented here (submitted to the exhibition) - 2 from each collaboration - were culled from 12 "conversations" which were created in the course of our "conversations". My intention is to present all 12 "conversations" in the coming days.

The exercise was both challenging and fun. So much so that I am giving very serious consideration to starting a photo conversations blog.