weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

2007 was the year of big change for us: I finally retired (one year early) from my job. We sold our house in NY, packed up our belongings and headed West. In this process, just before we drove our two cars in a mini-convoy across the country, I joked: "I used to have a house, a job and knew what I was doing. Then I became first homeless, then jobless and now even clueless as to where we are going."

So as you can imagine, this was a busy year, except for a number of flights to the west coast for house hunting (all unsuccessful - apparently we are not good "hunters"), and one final farewell business trip to Europe, we didn't travel. But instead we were busy packing up our belongings, discarding lots of things and deciding what would survive to be driven across the land to the "Wet Coast". In the process of selling the house, we moved out of it in mid-July, and took an interim 3-months apartment rental. The house sold at the very end of July, I gave my 2 months notice and worked till mid-September, utilizing my left-over vacation entitlement. Since we had rented the apartment till mid-October, we decided to play visitors for a month in the NY and East Coast area. I basically didn't touch my camera for the year, except during this last month, when we revisited some of our favorite places in the city and county, finally made the drive we always talked about out to Montauk at the far end of Long Island NY and drove down to Washington DC for a final visit.

I did not produce a calendar for this year, but just now selected 10 photos from the year, that I had never worked on, showing a few places in and around New York and then from our long drive across the country. As a matter of fact, I cannot exactly identify the location for some of the images I am presenting, so if any of you can provide me further details, I would be much obliged.

These shots were all taken with a Konica Minolta A2 camera with a resolution of 8 MP - and some of them show rather less than stellar resolution.

Notes
TRIP INTRODUCTON: Set # 1 provides an introduction. Please use the link below if you would like to review it:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-682502-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: To view, access my profile via the link below, then click on the figure behind "# of topics created" for the list of posts:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-profile?usernum=45105

Thanks for visiting, for best results please view the downloads, I look forward to your comments and questions.

.

1 - USA/NY/Westchester - On a Sunday walk at an undefined location in Westchester County NY

(Download)

2 - USA/NY/New York City - The upper structure of the Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway, built 1912, with 792 ft then the tallest building in the world until 1930, however not the tallest structure: the Eiffel Tower built in 1887 measures 1063 ft

(Download)

3 - USA/NY/Montauk - Cliffs at Camp Hero State Park viewed from the historic Montauk Light House at the eastern end of Long Island

(Download)

4 - USA/DC/Washington - James Garfield Monument (unveiled 1887) with the US Capitol building (1819) at the rear

(Download)

5 - USA/DC/Washington - Interior stairway and decoration at the Library of Congress, the de facto National Library of the United States, built in 1894 and subsequently expanded

(Download)

6 - USA/DC/Washington - Neptune Fountain in front of the Library of Congress: Statue by R.H. Perry, unveiled 1898, detail of one of the nymphs riding a wild seahorse with water splashes from the fountain jets

(Download)

7 - USA/DC/Washington - Three Soldiers monument, bronze statue by Frederick Hart, unveiled 11.11.1984 as part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

(Download)

8 - USA/SD/Murdo - On our coast-to-coast relocation drive: Fiery sunset afterglow somewhere near Murdo SD

(Download)

9 - USA/Montana - On our coast-to-coast relocation drive probably somewhere in Montana on I-90, approaching the Rocky Mountains

(Download)

10 - USA/Idaho - On our coast-to-coast relocation drive probably somewhere in Idaho on an unidentified mountain pass with the first snow blanketing part of the coniferous trees as some of the larch trees still retain their fall colors

(Download)

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Another wonderful series, Joe. I would love to spend a few days in the Library of Congress.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Barbara - yes, the library is ornate and wonderfully colorful - we visited it for the first time and would love to spend more time in there as well.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much Bill!

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Love this variety and change of pace photography...from city to country!! You have an excellent eye for scenes, especially architectural, Joe!!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Jim - yes, you are right: this calendar series with highlights of a year does not bring much calming continuity but rather a whirlwind of different subjects - glad to hear that you like this change of pace.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

More beautiful work, Joe!

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

More images from your wonderful archives, Joe. Great work.

Ourspolair

All nicely rendered, interesting images, as usual. Thanks for sharing. Please stay safe. Isn't digging in the archives fun?

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much Mike!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you very much Ken, yes there is so much stuff in there that I almost forgot!

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Ours, yes, digging is lots of fun and provides lots of surprises, the only negative is that it makes me realize yet again how much more work I should be doing to catch up with these oldies and sort out the goodies!

LeeK Loc: Washington State

Very nice.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Thank you Lee, happy to hear that you like this set as well!