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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 09:19AM 
Woods Inn ~ on 4th Lake - Inlet, NY on the Fulton Chain Lakes • click to embiggenThe view from the dining porch at the Woods Inn in Inlet, NY.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 08:56AM 
4th of July ~ on Mirror Lake in Lake Placid - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenHugo and I paddling about while waiting for the fireworks in Lake Placid - it's turned into a bit of a tradition for Hugo, the wife, and me to watch the fireworks (lit off from the shore of Mirror Lake) from canoes that we place front and center just off the shoreline.
FYI, picture by the wife.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 04:03PM 
10th fairway - Upper Course - and Whiteface Mt. ~ in the Adirondack PARK - Lake Placid, NY • click to embiggenOn more than 1 occasion as I golf on an Adirondack golf - many of which are over 100 years old - I fully expect the wily Scotsman, Shivas Irons, to mysteriously appear with a bottle of whiskey and a lot of wisdom about a backswing governed by true gravity.
*Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 12:03PM 
People doing things ~ on/along the West Branch of the Au Sable River - Wilmington, NY • click to embiggenStealing a glance along the West Branch of the Au Sable River.
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 11:11AM 
4 views of late Spring blossoms ~ in the Adirondack PARK - Au Sable Forks, NY • click to embiggen
Although in the popular mind the photograph serves as a surrogate slice of reality, the relationship between any subject and a photograph of that subject is highly unstable. Photographic codification invariably creates some degree of alteration, exaggeration, and/or ambiguity ...[S]uch reservations not withstanding, the camera that is equipped with color film represents the ultimate mimetic tool. Certainly no more efficient method of transcribing the world exists ... [Y]et of course photographs, despite their verisimilitude, are abstractions; their information is selective and incomplete ... even when the subject is represented by a multitude of views from various vantage points, through different lenses, types of films, and so forth ... such multiple presentations present only relative, fractional objectivity, for an infinite number of views are possible. ~ from the new color photography by Sally Eauclaire
Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 02:15PM 
Yesterday, Asgaard Farm ~ in the Adirondack PARK - Au Sable Forks, NY • click to embiggen
Asgaard Farm on a sunny day ~ in the Adirondack PARK - Au Sable Forks, NY • click to embiggenYesterday, the wife and I went up the hill to Asgaard Farm (and HERE) for some fresh chickens. When we got there, the cupboard was bare, chicken wise, so we opted for some of their feta cheese, fresh eggs, and fresh bacon.
Last evening, the wife made a fresh salad with the feta and some fresh lettuce and tomatoes (from another local farm) and this AM I made a fresh bacon and egg breakfast.
You may have noticed the multiple use of the word "fresh" - that's because fresh, locally grown, and certified organic produce and grass-fed / pastured poultry and meats are so tasty in a way that grocery store stuff isn't.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 02:38PM 
Tiger Swallowtail butterflies ~ in the Adirondack PARK - Au Sable Forks, NY • click to embiggenYesterday afternoon, quite a few Tiger Swallowtail (?) butterflies visited a large blossom bearing shrub next to our house.
I noticed them as I was heading out to the grocery store. As always, my Olympus E-P1 with 20mm f1.7 Lumix prime/pancake lens was hanging from from my shoulder so I spent about 20 minutes following the little things around and making pictures.
Considering the fact that the E-P1 has a "bad" rap as a slow-focusing POS, I nevertheless was able to make quite a number of very good pictures of the butterflies as they twitched and jerked and fluttered their way in, out and all around the blossoms.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 04:14PM 
Lush roadside Spring growth ~ in the Adirondack PARK - Au Sable Forks, NY • click to embiggenWith the exception of professional picture making activities, could you survive / function with just 1 fixed focal length lens?
Can a picture maker ever develop/find his/her vision if he/she uses more than 1 fixed focal length lens? Does using a zoom lens hinder the development of seeing and therefore prevent the development of a truly personal vision?