ENLARGED CALENDAR PHOTOS
For a number of Decembers now, I’ve sent out to friends a photo calendar for the upcoming year. Each has contained about fifteen miniaturized (1”x2” or so) photos that I’ve taken during the previous year, arranged in a square around the days, weeks and months.
In recently reviewing the calendars I’ve sent out over the past 10 years (2014 – 2024), I spotted a number of pretty good shots that would be more impressive if enlarged to a more normal size. So I’ve selected and enlarged two dozen of them that I consider worthwhile, and that’s my photo entry for the July 2025 blog.
A snap of feeding time for the sea lions at the Central Park Zoo
(from the 2022 calendar).
A view of NYC’s skinny skyline at dusk (2022).
I found a good perch high in a downtown office building to take
a long-range view of three East River bridges (2016).
This street scene of a bustling Third Avenue north of 79th Street was taken from the terrace of my apartment (2018).
I’ve long been partial to photos of boats and buildings reflected in water, as in this shot of Chandler’s Wharf in Portland, Maine (2018).
I get an extra kick out of a colorful reflection, like this snap alongside
the Hudson River (2021).
There’s a handsome church near our weekend escape in Easton, CT, that I’ve often photographed in the spring, summer and fall, but which also has real character in its winter version (2022).
Speaking of winter and our Easton home-sweet-home, here’s a noble trunk and some notable limb shadows in our back yard (2016).
Our favorite ski resort was Deer Valley in Park City, Utah, as in this shot of hills and skiers (2014).
A sextet of Connecticut ducks swimming in formation (2016).
These gulls were well-perched (2015).
How about this photogenic critter . . . . (2016).
Central Park offered up the best-looking duck I’ve ever encountered (2020).
This feeding frenzy took place at Silverman’s Farm in Easton, CT (2022).
Not all fireworks light the sky; some are grounded like these in CT (2023).
I happened upon this strange structure along the shore of
California’s Half Moon Bay (2020).
One of a plethora of fabulous metal sculptures by Carole Eisner that abound on the lawn of Dick and Carole’s Weston CT home (2022).
Here’s one of my favorite Central Park bridges (2017).
Manhattan also is home to a garbage-filled side, as seen in this photo (2024).
I shoot a lot of pix at my Princeton alma mater. In the above tragedy, we had just lost to Yale (2015); but in the victorious moment below, the team was singing “Old Nassau” to celebrate
a win over Penn (2019).
Here’s a notable California shoreline (2016).
Old Glory and its worthy partner in this CT photo (2023).
Let’s close back in NYC – in this case, when Hudson Yards was
relatively new . . . . (2020)
. . . and here, in its Hudson River berth, the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (2024).