Can't Stop Changing

I got tired of carrying around the 85mm lens and not using it. I can carry a flash and batteries for about the same weight. So, I'm selling it. Life is now simpler with only the 28-70mm and 28mm pancake lenses. 

Both lenses have f/2.8 maximum apertures. I won't be able to rely on very wide, very close or very blurry to make photos interesting. It will be a healthy exercise to be limited in this way. We'll see how long it lasts.

I stopped at Falls View Park in Cohoes this morning and walked the stairway and path down to the river level - and back up. This park is only accessible from May to October.

These first two shots, from the same spot, show my current focal length limits, 28mm and 70mm.

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 28mm, f/8, 1/1000 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 70mm, f/8, 1/1500 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 51mm, f/8, 1/500 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 70mm, f/8, 1/500 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 58mm, f/6.7, 1/1500 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 70mm, f/8, 1/750 sec., ISO 100

Only a Week Away

I'm still working out which bag and lenses combination works out best without having to constantly move everything around. It's a work in progress.

This morning I put the camera and 28-70mm and 85mm lenses in the Think Tank Speed Freak bag and walked around Waterford. We're eight days away from the scheduled opening of the canal season with the Canalfest taking place the following day. 

The flight of locks hasn't been flooded yet as work on some of the locks continues. The buoys for the Hudson River are stored on barges in the middle of the flight so all that has to happen in the next week.

Last year high water delayed the opening of the canal for weeks. There's no sign of anything like that this year.

The tugboat C. L. Churchill, shown in the foreground at Waterford Harbor, is the companion tug for the replica canal boat Seneca Chief which is also aground in the middle of the flight of locks and will be present for the Canalfest.

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 70mm, f/8, 1/350 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 70mm, f/8, 1/750 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 28mm, f/8, 1/350 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 28mm, f/4, 1/250 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 39mm, f/4, 1/4000 sec., ISO 100

RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 47mm, f/11, 1/350 sec., ISO 100

May Day Clouds

No polarizer filter needed for cloud definition on this first morning of May. I took a nice long walk this morning through Lansingburgh, Cohoes and Waterford which included seven river crossings, two of the Hudson and five of various branches of the Mohawk.

Hudson River
RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 28mm, f/8, 1/1000, ISO 100

Hudson River
RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 28mm, f/8, 1/1500, ISO 100

Van Schaick Mansion
RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 28mm, f/8, 1/500, ISO 100

Mohawk River
RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 46mm, f/8, 1/750, ISO 100

Mohawk River
RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 28mm, f/11, 1/350, ISO 100

Matton Shipyard
RF 28-70mm f/2.8 at 28mm, f/11, 1/750, ISO 100