civilized ku # 2602-04 / ku # 1267-70 ~ Adirondacks by air

Tom's seaplane ~ Long Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Hugo and Carter ~ Long Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Over Long Lake ~ Long Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Marsh ~ Long Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Newcomb Lake / Santanoni Mountain / Great Camp Santanoni ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Great Camp Santanoni ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Tom, Hugo, Carter ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenYesterday dawned cloudy and overcast but by 11AM the overcast had given way to blue sky and fluffy clouds. By the same time, Hugo and his hockey linemate Carter had also arrived and I deemed it a perfect day for a seaplane trip. So I called my friend Tom to see if he was available to fly us around. The answer was "yes" so he flew us around and it turned out to be a perfect day for seeing parts of the Adirondacks by air.

ku # 1265-66 ~ post storm variants

Post storm sunset/fog ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Post storm sunset/fog # 2 ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

ku # 1263-64 / civilized ku # 2597 - recent goings on, here and there

Surgical Waiting Room ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen
Tree climbing visitors ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK• click to embiggen
Weird cloud display ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK• click to embiggenSpent Monday AM in the CVPH Surgical Waiting Room while the wife had her female-parts-removal surgery (scheduled). Taking her back to Rist Camp for rest and recuperation after her discharge this AM (Tuesday).

Had visitors to Rist Camp over the past weekend. More visitors are on the way.

There was a strange / weird cloud thing late Saturday afternoon. Never saw anything quite like before.

ku # 1259-60 ~ weather

Rainbow over Blue Mountain ~ Blue Mountain Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Storm clouds ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenAt times, the weather here is majestic (warm and fuzzy). Other times, it is cool and stormy. Either way, it's all part of life and it's best when you go with the flow.

ku # 1257-58 ~ pre-dinner appetizer appetizer

Rain + rainbow + Hobbit Light ~ near Long Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Sunset ~ Blue Mountain Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenThe wife and I left Rist Camp Sunday evening, during a heavy rain storm, for a drive for dinner at Blue Mountain Lake. About 2 miles outside of Long Lake in a light rain the sky cleared along the horizon. A mile or so later we came upon the scene of the top picture in this entry.

The rainbow was rather faint but as we continued on toward Blue Mountain Lake, it became quite vivid with a faint double rainbow. I stopped along the road at various locations to make a few pictures of the rainbow. Arriving at Blue Mountain Lake, the clouds had turned crimson red against a vivid blue sky.

The drive was a wonderful visual appetizer / treat which set the tone for equally enjoyable dinner.

ku # 1254-56 ~ the ever changing view

The view # 1 / morning mist/fog ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
The view # 2 / late day overcast ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
The view # 3 / rain ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenThe view from the Rist camp porch is like a television series which has a new episode every night, or, in some cases, two episodes a day.

There is an Adirondack saying which states, "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change." That saying has some actual truth - the weather here, not unlike many other mountain regions, is subject to rapid changes. To date, during our stay at Rist Camp we have not experienced any sudden unexpected weather change events. However, day-to-day, there have been some dramatic changes in the weather.

Each change brings with it an opportunity to make pictures of the same scene in vastly different weather moods. That's one of the things I really like about where we live.

ku # 1253-54 civilized # 2590-91 ~ this and that, lens wise

Sunday evening ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Saturday evening ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Tabletop stuff ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Couch stuff ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenOn Sunday evening I stepped outside of the box - in this case, the box is my µ4/3 20mm prime lens - and mounted my 11-22mm 4/3 Zuiko lens.

The Sunday picture was made @ 11mm. The Saturday evening picture was made using my 45mm µ4/3 Zuiko lens under a very overcast sky with very warm late day light and a dense atmospheric fog/mist. A kind of light which I have always refered to as "Hobbit Light".

Both pictures were made from the same vantage point on the Rist Camp front porch.

ku # 1253 ~ nite life in the woods # 2

3AM full moon ~ Rist Camp / Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenWoke up last night about 3AM to make water and I noticed that it was rather bright outside, hence the picture.

The picture required a fair amount of processing in order for it to look like night time as opposed to a night-for-day kinda of look which is the de rigueur look which seems to be the preferred look of most night time landscape picture makers.

FYI, my first from Rist Camp iPad picture processing and posting, civilized ku # 2575-79 ... et al, was less than successful inasmuch as the app I was using - photogenie - isn't very good at downsampling files for use on the web. Things get a bit unsharp which kinda sucks. So I tried another app - photoforge - which does a fine job of downsampling but not so good at preserving the density / tonal quality of the processed image.

Each app has various processing capabilities that the other does not - photogenie has burn, dodge, and cloning tools whereas photoforge does not. Photoforge has layers which photogenie does not. Photoforge also has an equivalent of the PS History Palette which is a very useful capability. There are other differences as well.

Consequently, my current iPad processing workflow is to start out with photogenie, save and open in photoforge for further processing. After processing and downsampling in photoforge, I have created a workaround using Curves in photoforge which preserves the tonal quality of the file for use on the web.