Route 9 - Left Behind

While New York's route 9 may still be a main road for many, and the center of commercial activity in still active towns and cities from Beacon to Poughkeepsie and Glens Falls to Schroon Lake, in many areas it is a graveyard to an era that passed away decades ago. The photos above are from North Hudson, a town that relied on it's amusement park, Frontier Town, and the fact that the main north-south road in eastern New York ran through here. Since then the world has moved on and no longer notices places like these as they travel the interstates and take their vacations in far-away places leaving places like this to ingloriously fade away.

Now, this bypassed byway holds a looking glass into the past. A past before the interstate highway, air conditioning and commercial airlines ended the idyllic family vacation forever recorded in family comedy classics from National Lampoon's Vacation to the John Candy classic Uncle Buck.

I have several more images coming from this stretch of Route 9 between North Hudson and Schroon Lake, NY. Look for them soon...

On the Farm- Schagitcoke, NY

Another set of pictures from the farm of the wonderful Unc and Kris Brock. Kris showed me around for the better part of a morning and I got some great captures! Enjoy, more to come soon from the Adirondacks, Vermont, NY and soon Maine..

Borscht Belt Resort (cont'd)

Borscht Belt Resort...

Took a day off from finals week to check out an area of the Catskills known as the Borscht Belt.

I hope you like what we found as much as I do! Many more to come..

Rinaldi Flea Market

The Rinaldi Markets are a flea market started by Bill Rinaldi, far right, in Poughkeepsie.



People swarmed a van that was known to have "the Goods".

Bright and early, armed with cameras and caffeine.



We met many characters including Chip who has been involved with Flea Markets for 50 years and sells custom-made carpets.
The Market was also an international affair from a Yugoslavian man selling DVDs to a Mexican family making tacos and sopes.

Where were you at 5am on Mother's Day? Well, Robin and I got up and took these pictures. I think it was worth it!

Another year, another massive amount of photos...

In March I shot my first baseball game when Marist played Siena. This is one of my favorite captures from that game.


Last week, I attended the retirement party of Professor Fahey. I took a ton of pictures and the light was interesting due to the fact it was in the Henry Hudson room which has many windows and it was late afternoon.


These photos are from the Brock's Farm in Schagticoke, NY. These are just a small sample of the many photos I took at this beautiful location.




Well, I've decided to start posting to this blog again. I have lots of interesting photos from the last year I would love to share. I'm supposed to be writing a final right now, but instead. Here's a small treat! Enjoy!

Back to School...