Photos from She Who Walks Among Graves..

[shadowkat]

These are the photos from the day I got lost - which was Wed, after the five hour negotiation from hell. I was sore for two days after this. The walk helped with the stress - up until the point that I got lost. Also there was more street traffic that day than on Friday for some reason, and less masks.

I'm kind of hoping the fact that the upstate region is starting to re-open - will grab some of the frustrated New Yorkers. The problem with going to the parks - or why they are more crowded than ever before - is there are no gyms, aerobic classes, boxing, tennis, basketball, soccer games, football, baseball, swimming pools, vacations, etc - so all people have is the parks.
There's no where else they can go - but the parks and the side-streets for exercise. Apparently they've opened up more streets now to pedestrians, and closed them to traffic. Also are creating more designated bike lanes. This should make walking about easier. I may start taking much longer walks. Who knows maybe I can walk to the doctor's office in June? The appointment is at 4:20 - if I start at 9 am, I might get there by then.

Anyhow, here's the pictures.

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Flowers:





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3. Sunlight with the Graves..











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Grave of the animal right's activist Henry Bergh who founded the ASPCA.




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Trees and sunlight




Walking through the woods in the cemetery



Monument and Trees





6. More trees, flowers, graves and sunlight on Lookout Hill or Mauseulum Hillside.











Reposting the heron, photographer for apto_omn

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

Notice I was talking about cropping. Cropping of photos is a major part of getting the balance of a picture right. Like your redo of the pond photographer and Heron... ONM didn't like the way you cropped it the first time. (You could have cut off the stones above the lady reading in the background and I doubt he would have griped about the odd shape.)

[shadowkat]

Yeah, from my perspective - I was mostly concerned about getting the heron, less concerned about everything else. Ridiculously hard to get the heron. I had him and he moved, because the dumb phone refused to cooperate - it turns off and makes me punch in a password internittently. Sometimes - it will let me swipe to the camera, but it refused on this occasion, and the heron moved while I was trying to get in.

Then I thought - be cool to get heron and photographer with focus on the heron. While OMN cared more about the photographer, and you noticed the stones above the lady reading - who I attempted to cut out but couldn't.

People notice different things. Also, it's not my favorite shot - I had to photoshop it to death to get it to work. It's very hard to capture wildlife on a phone - because you could see it perfectly well with the naked eye and it could seem really close - but the phone for some reason makes it seem really far away. So you have to play with the picture on the phone until it appears as you saw it. Meanwhile - if you have a telescopic lense like the photographer had - not a problem. He was taking a lot of photos of the heron.

ETA: Trees and statues and mausoleums are so much easier - they don't move. I can take multiple pics, from various angles. Same with the sky, sunshine and flowers. People and birds and animals - unfortunately do move and don't want their picture taken.

[cactuswatcher]

Just to be clear. The heron, the photographer, the lady, the lake/pond, the sweep of green grass? It's a darn fine photograph! Good work!