Macro Friday June 25

I am entering Macro Friday with a shot from our hike up Mt. Beacon. It was a hazy hot day, and I was sweating like a pig, but it was worth the view. I can't wait until fall time and crisp air to get some color shots in Autumn. But first a sad story, and maybe some of you can relate. We were editing some photos (hundreds) of a wedding we did in New Jersey. Amy had one of the cards and I had the other. I was almost done, adding some touch ups and fixing the lighting and contrast. This was last Saturday. So, I put away the card, packed up the laptop and we headed down to Lehman College where my wife was teaching a class. Later that day, I went back to editing, when I inserted the card to find only shots from the college, and no wedding! My heart sank, and I started searching disks and drives, but no wedding. OMG what happened. For the life of me, I cannot explain what happened, but I had brought home a trashed Gateway laptop and got it working with Linux. Using Gimp, I noticed that some of my macros were not reading or saving, and I switched over to my Dell laptop, but the wedding photos were not there, and neither were the macro shots I had lost. So, the Gateway laptop must have corrupted my SD card. And, to make matters worse, I did not make a backup of the card before editing. Stupid! So, in hind sight, we bought a 320Gb external, where we now copy our files before editing.


















The following shots were from a hike we did up Mt. Beacon, in Beacon, NY. It is a steep climb to the top, but the views are fantastic. I was using my 70-300, but is was hazy, so the shots are not crystal. We plan on going back in October for the colors and crispness in the air.

1. The old cable machinery used to pull up the incline railway train.

2. What's left of the cable house.


3. The railroad tracks on which the incline train ran.

4. Sign post at the start of the hike.

5. Photo of Hudson River, and the Newburgh/Beacon bridge.
6. Mount Saint Mary College is below the water tower.

Here is info on the incline: http://www.inclinerailway.org