Rip's Rock
February 08, 2020
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The beautiful poem “Rip’s Rock” by Laura Sanderson was featured in Picturesque Catskills by Richard Lionel De Lisser and Catskill Mountain Summer Resorts as published by the American Resort Association.
Rip’s Rock
High upon old Kaaterskill’s crest
Is a rock, where one may rest
Safely hid from hue and cry;
Hen-pecked husband, hither hie....
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Learn from the Masters: 57 Great Photography Quotes
February 04, 2020
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W hen you read about developing yourself as a photographer there tends to be two schools of thought. The first school of thought says something like “be yourself,” “find your vision,” “don’t worry about what others are doing,” “just shoot,” “break the rules,” “equipment doesn’t matter,” etc. The second school of thought says something like “study t...
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No amount
February 03, 2020
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“No amount of sharpness of dynamic range will make a story better any more than using a more modern font will improve a poem.”
--- The Soul of the Camera, David duChemin
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Lacking
February 02, 2020
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“What we lack is not better cameras, but better photographers.”
--- The Soul of the Camera, David duChemin
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Sharpness
February 01, 2020
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“It is not the sharpness of the image to which people will respond. They will not, one day in the distant future, speak about your stunning histograms.”
--- The Soul of the Camera, David duChemin
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Joyful Desideratum
January 31, 2020
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“I wonder whether I have made you realize the unique values of the Park without over-painting. For the globe-trotter who boasts of his planetizing ability and cares for sights only as they are big there is precious little in the Catskills. For the man who must have beetling crags, and whose enjoyment is ruined if there is another man in the same co...
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Sermons in Stones
January 30, 2020
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“I am quite sure of one thing: if you think some action seems scarcely worth the labor, the discomfort, and yet you’d rather like to do it, that is the thing to gird your loins and do. There is nothing so weakening as ambition frustrated by doubt, nothing so encouraging as something put through, which is the chief retort the foolish mountaineer can...
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Let Sublimity Stun
January 29, 2020
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“The Catskills are a well watered mountainland compounded of Cooper’s tales and the Psalms of David, deep forests and green pastures, living heights and still waters. There are no jagged peaks, no lava flows, no vast sterilities of sand or ice. The holy of holies, however, has always been a quiet place. Let sublimity stun.”
--- The Catskills, T.
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The Man Who Exists in the Morrow
January 28, 2020
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“However much the gospel of work must be practiced for our deepest satisfaction, it is he who obeys the idler’s creed who enjoys the riches of nature. He who runs may read, but not everyone who reads remembers and still less is able to grasp the full measure of the countryside speeding past. There is a wealth of underfoot and a width of overhead th...
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The Supreme Worth of Travel
January 27, 2020
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“The great advantage of visiting inspiring scenery or talking with strong men is not what you get out of them, but what they draw out of you – the same thing, of course, but put in a more comforting light. If you are keenly alive all men will interest and no scene will bore. There is no commonplace of scenery. The dreariest desert flows with color,...
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They Are Not So Little
January 26, 2020
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“... that gorge, unadvertised and not very famous, is the finest miniature of wilderness in the Catskills, and the beauty of its trees, lichened rocks, cascades, and glimpses of the plain will repay a lengthy visit at any season. If one does not go to be awed, he will remain to be charmed. The enjoyment of the Catskills depends on the same point of...
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Seeker
January 25, 2020
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"It is quite true that there is no walker who has not longed sometime for wheels, no vagabond who would not at times trade all his liberty for the discomforts of home. Every seeker has often criticized the curiosity that led him forth. But he who would find must also seek."
--- The Catskills, T. Morris Longstreth
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Earning Enjoyment
June 23, 2019
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“One day I heard a boy say to his younger brother, who was crying lustily, “Now, Tom, I know you don’t want anything, but what do you think you want!” That boy was a philosopher, and went to the root of the matter. It is not what we really want, but what we think we want, that frets most of us. If you only could snatch to-day’s happiness, instead o...
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Covered Bridges of the Catskills: Ulster County
December 28, 2018
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Ulster County is home to seven covered bridges including the Millbrook Covered Bridge, the Forge Covered Bridge, the Tappan Covered Bridge, the Myers Covered Bridge, the Friendship Manor Covered Bridge, the Ashokan/Turnwood Covered Bridge and Perrine’s Covered Bridge.
The first five of those bridges are located within a fairly close distance of...
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Covered Bridges of the Catskills: Delaware County
December 15, 2018
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Delaware County, New York is home to five beautiful covered bridges, including the Downsville Covered Bridge, Hamden Covered Bridge, Fitch’s Covered Bridge, Lower Shavertown Covered Bridge and the Erpf Covered Bridge. The Downsville, Hamden and Fitch’s Covered Bridges are accessible to the public, while the Lower Shavertown bridge is on private pro...
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