Nice tranquil location Chuck, will you share any pictures of the
get-together?
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Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> For the past several years on Memorial Day weekend we venture northward
> to the vicinity of Glen's Falls**, New York to visit with friends who
> have a very large extended family. My task, apart from eating all the
> wonderful goodies they prepare for a big family/neighborhood picnic, is
> to do group portraits of the extended family. Parents, children and
> grandchildren now number about 25. Since it's such a big affair the
> preparation is a lot of work. Consequently, my wife and I go early to
> help out.
>
> But all is not work and our friends have a beautiful garden in the back
> yard. Before all the family and friends arrived I got a chance to
> wander the garden and took a few shots of flowers and lawn with my
> favorite being the orange poppies. I hadn't realized my 80-200/2.8
> Tokina had such nice bokeh at 200mm. Also, the first shot is a first
> for me. A hungry Pileated Woodpecker who was knocking finger size
> chunks of wood out of an old, dead pine tree. It took a while but I
> eventually got close enough to him for a decent shot at 200mm.
>
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Glendenning%27s_Garden/>
>
> ** For you James Fennimore Cooper fans, Glen's Falls is near the
> headwaters of the Hudson River and the waterfalls there are the location
> from "The Last of the Mohicans" where Natty Bumppo and friends are
> hiding from the Hurons after escaping a massacre. There is indeed a
> cave under the falls which is now known as "Cooper's Cave". And, of
> course, there is a local craft brewery there by the same name where we
> picked up the beer and a trailer load of ice. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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