Tag Archives: Sunset

May 2, 2013

5-2-13 Travel Theme: Light

In what seems to be on the verge of becoming a trend I present my second take on Ailsa’s Travel Theme just before the deadline.

The theme this week was light. Here are two views of light taken from the Saugerties Lighthouse on the Hudson. This first one was taken on the evening of January 6, 2012.

I took this one the morning of January 7, 2012.

As always, a few other views.

Travel Theme: Light | The Backpack Monologues

Travel Theme: Light | Its In The Picture – 365

Travel Theme: Light | Geophilia

Lights across the World | dadirridreaming

Travel Theme: Light | Chronicles of Illusions

Weekly Photo Challenge: CULTURE / Travel Theme: LIGHT | Travels and Trifles

Travel theme: Light | litterthoughts

Travel Theme: Light | Across the Bored

Travel theme: Light | Confuzzledom

Travel Theme: Light | lena de almeida

Travel Theme: Light. | Converse And A Hoodie

Travel Theme: Light | Wind Against Current

15 comments | tags: Ailsa, Hudson River, postaday2013, Saugerties Lighthouse, Sunrise, Sunset, Travel Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

January 22, 2013

1-22-13 Is A Picture Worth 1000 Words?

By Robert S Johnson

4 comments | tags: Advertisments, Christmas Trees, cliche, Dogs, Hudson River, New York City, Plastic Surgery, postaday2013, Sunset | posted in Photography

January 19, 2013

Ailsa’s travel theme this week is up. I had hoped to go deep into the files for this one but, no such luck. I know I have prints of many places and ideas that fit the theme but I could not find them. It did make me realize though that my preference, is for me to get up as high as possible and shoot down. I can’t say why that is so but it was an interesting thing to observe. All of the shots used for this post are from 2013.

Apropos of nothing, a lovely lagniappe of my day was the chance to have a drink with Andra Watkins, The Accidental Cootchie Mama her own bad self, and her charming and erudite husband, MTM. They are in NYC on business and were kind enough to call me and spend some time.

Up we go:

A few other points of view

Ese’s Voice

Adventures We Seek

Artifacts and Fictions

Around The World

7 comments | tags: Clouds, Glenwood Power Station, Hudson River, New York City, Photo Challenge, postaday2013, Sunset, Travel Theme, Up | posted in Photography

January 7, 2013

1-6-13 No Drama Sunday #1

By Robert S Johnson

It has been a while since we visited the land of no drama.

Katherine and I slept late, read the Times, me, old style with paper, newsprint and all, and her, new style with iPad and pixels and such. Then we did our respective things, she went to Meeting and I rousted Abigail and worked on my photography. When Katherine came home we walked across Central Park to the Guggenheim to see “Picasso Black and White”. This is a stunning display of his black and white (with occasional browns) work.

For once the audio tour added something to the exhibit. His daughter, Maya Widmaier Picasso, tells some extraordinary stories about Picasso, the father, and being a little girl and painting with him in his studio as the Germans patrolled the streets of Paris. The Guggenheim did not allow pictures so as we were leaving I shot their ceiling.

When we came out of the museum the sunset was extraordinary. Part of this must have to do with suddenly being in the land of colors and part because it was a damn beautiful sunset over the reservoir.

I have to admit I love the pink streak and I have done nothing to enhance it. Dinner with friends and then “Downton Abbey.”

Even it was no drama.

9 comments | tags: Central Park, Downton Abbey, Guggenheim, Hudson River, New York City, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, postaday2013, Sunset | posted in Art, Photography

December 28, 2012

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 In Pictures

By Robert S Johnson

“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
John Green

I started working on this to close out the year when what to my wondering eyes did appear but this weeks photo challenge - My 2012 In Pictures.

Many folks, and newspapers and magazines (how old school) and internet postings do this so I wasn’t being particularly imaginative or “out of the box” (please god may that expression die on 12/31/12) when I decided that would be the way I end this year.

The problem is that I have over 30,000 images from 2012. I will be posting a few of my favorites over the next four days. I am trying to not use shots that I put in the blog. We will see how that goes.

Entrance: Riverbank State Park

Uptown Subway – 110th Street

Times Square Subway Station

Sunset Over the Hudson – Saugerties Lighthouse

9 comments | tags: Hudson River, My Year, New York City, postaday2012, Riverbank State Park, Saugerties Lighthouse, Sunset, Times Square, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

October 21, 2012

10-20-12 Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

By Robert S Johnson

For the life of me, I cannot remember if I have used this picture before, but it is one of my favorite pictures of Abigail so if this is a second publication, cut a father a break. It fits the silhouette challenge nicely, I think.

6 comments | tags: Cape Cod, daughter, Hudson River, postaday2012, Silhouette, Summer, Sunset, Weekly Photo Challenge. | posted in Photography

October 6, 2012

10-5-12 Out Into The Cool Of The Evening

By Robert S Johnson

Sunset in my mirror, pedal on the floor
Bound for New York City and I won’t be back no more
Won’t be back no more, boys won’t see me around
Goodbye guitar town

Ghosts out on the highway, voices on the wind
Tellin’ me that we may never pass this way again
Voices on the highway angels beckonin’
Like a long lost friend

Fare thee well I’m bound to roam
This ain’t never been my home

Stranger in my mirror, lines around my eyes
String around my finger but I don’t remember why
Don’t remember why, boys don’t remember how
Goodbye guitar town

Fare thee well I’m bound to roam
This ain’t never been my home

Blue dog on my floorboard, redhead by my side
Cross the mighty Hudson river to the New York City side
Redhead by my side, boys sweetest thing I’ve found
Goodbye guitar town

Steve Earle

Leave a comment | tags: contrails, Guitar Town, Hudson River, Jackson Browne, New Jersey, New York City, postaday2012, Steve Earle, Sunset | posted in Photography

August 30, 2012

Travel Theme: Silhouette

By Robert S Johnson

Ailsa’s theme this week was silhouette. Last week was sunset. Here is my mashup…

7 comments | tags: Blackfish Creek, Cape Cod, House, Hudson River, postaday2012, Silhouette, Sunset, Wellfleet | posted in Photography

August 22, 2012

Travel Theme: Sunset

By Robert S Johnson

Ailsa’s theme this week is sunsets:

Here is another scan. This one from February 2005 somewhere in County Kerry:

2 comments | tags: County Kerry, Ireland, Ocean, Photograph, sea, Sunset, Travel | posted in Photography

August 21, 2012

8-20-12 First Principles

By Robert S Johnson

“Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having returned to New York from a vacation that had many unexpected turns (including, it seems, having 5 days of pictures vanish from the computer and the memory card vanish as well), I thought it was time to get back to first principles. So I went to where I shot my first pictures of the Hudson Project on 1/1/11 and then took the same walk down to 102nd Street… (If nothing else has changed since then, I, at least, think I take better pictures and understand my equipment in greater depth now).