Photos --- My first photo exhibit is at Millburn Public Library. Also, todays birding trip.

How 'bout a Pearl Crescent to brighten our day.

Hubby was able to scan the picture. Of course, it scanned much larger than the original, so all the years of abuse (I never framed it, yeah, I know...) show up in horrifying detail. Trust me, the picture looks much better in person.

joanne said:

Jack, Rod writes:
Jack might also like this Forum:
I thought that Jack might like to compare his own efforts with some really good photography in a wide range of genres. Butterflies to beaches.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1629751

Showthread has some good stuff. "Good" to me is if I look at it for more than three or four seconds... maybe even come back for a second look.

To compare my photos.. I would ask myself what are the criteria?

Unique subject matter. That is interesting because first of all, it has to be there where I am, unless I am composing a still life.. That I never do (so far). There is nothing wrong in composing a photo, it just isn't for me. And I have to recognize that there is something about where I am that has potential.

Framing the photo.... because of my eyesight, I usually can't see what is on the screen after I take the photo. I don't really know what I have until I get home and see the results on the computer screen. Therefore, I take quite a few photos of a subject and at different angles. I am getting better at the viewfinder so more and more of my photos are acceptable, first effort. Sometimes I have to drive miles and re-take a photo but as I am learning from my mistakes, I do this less and less.

Of photos that are memorable, "Three Chiefs." Some of Ansel's but not all of them.
The photo of the woman in Italy walking past the guys on the corner. Even though that was staged, it is interesting.

Of the ones that have been posted on this board, Joy's photo of Skaket Beach is breath taking. If I can do one of that quality, I will be happy.

After 20+ years of not being in a frame, there is obvious damage visible, and I do not have the negative any longer. Even so, I still love this picture. Some of it was cropped off by the scanner.. The dark trees in the center of the frame is a small uninhabited island in the middle of the lake. The lights to the left are a house with a ton of windows on the shoreline behind the island. Although it is out of focus, I just love looking at the reflection of the trees on the water. I think it is odd how white the sky looks considering that this picture was taken in the dead of night. I developed this picture myself at CHS.

That's my daughter. Nice job. I miss the place.

Photography runs in our family... Jerseyjack obviously takes after me ;-)

Walk to Sunfish Pond today.


The first one is the shadow of a fern on a rock.

I haven't been there in years. Thanks for the memories.

@spontaneous - that damage can be fixed in photoshop. It won't be easy - but it can be done.

And gorgeous photos - both of you!~

While my son was having me him drive him here/there on the eastern shore last night I recalled, jack, what you'd written earlier about monocular vision. That explains a ton about his picture-taking and his inability to shoot guns, arrows...whatever using two eyes. He's always had to have one eye patched and has been exceptionally accurate that way. Watching him takevpictures, he used the view-finder, not the screen. Thank you!

cedar said:

While my son was having me him drive him here/there on the eastern shore last night I recalled, jack, what you'd written earlier about monocular vision. That explains a ton about his picture-taking and his inability to shoot guns, arrows...whatever using two eyes. He's always had to have one eye patched and has been exceptionally accurate that way. Watching him takevpictures, he used the view-finder, not the screen. Thank you!

You never know when something posted connects with someone.

B.T.W., While I shot bow and arrow only a couple of times, I did earn a couple of "bars" from the N.R.A. in marksmanship . I was pretty good at it.

--true story.... There was one kid in our 22 cal. range. It wasn't that we didn't like him and it wasn't bullying but we would thumb tack our targets and then walk back to the shooting station and pick up our rifles. Then we would take turns shooting the thumb tack off of Henry's target to make the target drop.

I never missed the thumb tack.

Many of you have been here. Another set of clues tomorrow if no one guesses where this is.

Highlands, if someone was putting a gun to my head...

Monhegan??

Martha's Vineyard?

I don't know where it is, but I've been there. Either you or Lynn took me there, probably 15 - 20 years ago at least.

No on the three guesses

Was I there with you?

Nova Scotia

Lake Champlain?

It looks like the shores of Montauk to me. Right before Gurney's Inn.

Doesn't look like it's in New Jersey.

Bar Harbor or somewhere on the Maine Coast

oneofthegirls said:

It looks like the shores of Montauk to me. Right before Gurney's Inn.

BINGO !

Coast at Montauk Light

nice! (that's what I get for trying to guess from a photo on my phone!)

I'd like go to LUNCH and have a lobster roll today. No can do.

I love this thread.

joy, some of my most sentimental photos got damaged in our move from NJ to NY. I cannot learn to do this myself. What do you suggest? I might like to hire you for this.

Hmmm... I actually don't remember ever going there. To the best of my knowledge I've been to the end of Long Island once, with my ex's family for his aunt's graduation from medical school.

Montauk really is beautiful. Especially coming on the view on old Momtauk rd, up a little hill and a slight s curve and bam! You get hit with that view! Amazing pictures Jack. Thanks.