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"Huguenot Street Still Life - #2"
During the final week of July last summer, after finishing up work on the latest season of Project Runway, Sally and I took off for a much-needed vaction in the Catskill Mounains. We had rented a cabin in the town of Phoenicia, NY for four days of sun and fun. On our last day, we met up with my cousin Debbie - who's an EMT at Frost Valley YMCA - at the base of the hiking trail that leads to Kaaterskill Falls. After an incredible scramble up the boulders of Kaatersill Creek, we arrived at the plunge pool at the base of the lower falls. Debbie and I then clambered up a steep and slippery slope, to the very narrow and low-ceilinged footpath, that leads around behind the upper falls of this largest-in-New-York-State two-tiered cascade.
After finishing our hike we parted ways with Debbie, and headed to Highland, NY - a small town just west of the Hudson River - where we were spending the night. (The following day we were attending a church reunion, for a summer camp that Sally and some of her siblings had attended during their teens.) We checked into our motel room for the night and then back-tracked to New Paltz, the home to historic Huguenot Street. This street is the site of seven stone homes, and a reconsructed church, that date from the early 1700's. It is one of the oldest, continuosly inhabited streets in America - if not the oldest.
Today's picture was photographed through a window of the Bevier-Elting House, the original room of which was built in 1698. This house is believed to be one of the oldest of the seven there. I've entered this image - as well as three others of this house, plus one of the church and graveyard - in a juried photography show being held by the Mill Street Loft Arts Center, in neighboring Poughkeepsie, NY.
Camera Data
Canon
Canon PowerShot SD1000
1/251 second
F/3.5
10 mm
80
Jul 30, 2010, 5:53:27 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
13mm
Canon PowerShot SD1000
1/251 second
F/3.5
10 mm
80
Jul 30, 2010, 5:53:27 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
13mm
