Catskills, Then and Now: Woodchuck Lodge (Home of John Burroughs)
March 07, 2020
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Born and raised in Roxbury, John Burroughs (1837-1921) would grow from his humble roots to become a famous author and naturalist. He authored 27 books that sold over 1 ½ million copies as well as numerous magazine essays. Burroughs’ most popular writings became generally known as the nature essay. The nature essay relied on Burroughs’ astute observ...
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Catskills, Then and Now: Henry Sleight House
February 29, 2020
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The Henry Sleight House in the historic Stockade District of Kingston was built in the late 17th century and is considered to be a fine example of Dutch and English Colonial architectural style. The first known owner of the house was Anthony Crispell. The house is named for former Kingston resident, local merchant and Village President Hendricus (H...
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Bob Wyer: The Delhi Lensman
February 22, 2020
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Bob Wyer is one of the most prolific photographers in the history of the Catskills. His photographic career included shooting just about everything, such as passport photos, chauffer licenses, hunting licenses, high school yearbooks, formal portraits, special occasions such as birthdays and weddings, young babies, local stores, hotels and businesse...
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Catskills, Then and Now: Alligator Rock
February 18, 2020
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During the last ice age of 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, receding glaciers left behind many gigantic “erratics” throughout the Catskills. Erratics can be defined as “a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests.” Many examples of these rocks and boulders as well as other interesting rock formations...
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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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