
A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog
Old Steel, New Looks
June 25, 2014
This a simple photo post, the images shot on a recent short trip to Queens via the East River Ferry. I was testing various techniques, among which long exposures and a new kind of HDR-like blending called "fusion", promising but definitely not satisfactory yet. I also attempted a full 360 panorama using fusion, but I have not dealt with its 80 files, each 20 megapixel large and needing to be blended, processed and stitched...
So without a story, I hope you enjoy these r...
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Staten Island Touch and Go
June 20, 2014
Unfortunately, it appears that every Saturday or Sunday, at about the same time we decide we should go somewhere for fun and a change of scenery, eight million New Yorkers reach the same conclusion and scramble. I'm not sure how our intentions are leaked, maybe I should check with Assange or Snowden. The bottom line is we all end up, it seems, competing for subway cars and breathable air.
Last weekend, Marie and I opted for a cross-city stampede, the whole shebang, nort...
New York Sightings - Citroën at Indochine
June 11, 2014
A beautifully old 2CV parked in front of the famous faux-French-colonial-Vietnamese restaurant. Appropriate I guess...
Bis Repetita Placent - A Run Around Table Mountain
June 9, 2014
The last two years have been rather rough in terms of running. I've been cursed by a fateful book and plagued by cramps. I'll soon post about that.
But back in Cape Town last December, I did manage to revisit one of my favorite Table Mountain runs, first charted in 2010.
The weather was dramatically different this time. While Cape Town's summer month of December is normally windy, sunny and dry, there had been an unusual amount of rain and clouds were still hanging l...
Of Life and the City
June 5, 2014
This post was born as a brief reply to a reader's very nice comment but I got carried away and wrote beyond the intended single paragraph. I hope - and expect - that I will take heat for it. Mine is a rather dark and negative view of life in the city. I know there is another side and I welcome comments.
But there are as many realities as there are sentient beings, and probably as many universes as the combined number of possible decisions made by those beings every second...
Timelapse from Riverbank State Park
June 2, 2014
Timelapse photography had been trending for a while, but with the emergence of 4K video, it has found a new meaning for itself.
The maximum pixel dimension of HD video is 1920 x 1080 pixels. This is much less than what modern DSLR cameras are capable of. So while photographers are able to shoot stills with 20+ megapixel resolution, when switching to video mode, they are using only a fraction of their sensor's power.
In comes 4K. The new video standard features resolu...
Upper Delaware River, a Foraging Gig - Part 2
May 30, 2014
After images of the great outdoors in Part 1, here are the remaining pictures, drinks and dinner preparations. Shot with available light, a mix of daylight and tungsten early on and only weak overhead tungsten later, so bear with me.
If you wonder why there are no pictures of plating or the table, well, by then I was busy eating - and it was delicious. Again, I must have hobbit blood. Eating is a serious business and should not be interrupted unnecessarily, even by pict...
Upper Delaware River, a Foraging Gig - Part 1
May 28, 2014
The Delaware River is born in the Catskills, two pristine mountain streams becoming the West and East branches that eventually merge just below the small town of Hancock, NY. The main river then swiftly flows south, flirting with the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, on its way to Philadelphia and the nearby ocean.
Invited to spend last weekend by our friends Steve and Helen, we had booked a Zipcar for a couple of days and headed north...
Pilgrimage to Knysna
May 18, 2014
In February of 2008, on my first visit to South Africa, Marie and I took off from Cape Town for a short road trip along the Garden Route and into the Little Karoo. Our wedding had been unconventional and delightfully private, under the watchful eye of Table Mountain. We were already on a larger journey so the expedition to Knysna and into the Karoo was a honeymoon inside of a honeymoon. We were like astronauts, off-planet for sure but doing a short EVA to take in the views...
Bronx, Debunked
May 12, 2014
Still a good hour north of us despite our Harlem incursion, Pelham Bay has also become a little more accessible. Surrounded by highways and Bronx suburbs, the park features a lot of tidal shoreline and some tick-prone thick woods.
On our last visit, an encounter with a couple of deer confirmed the tick theory, but it was very early spring and we escaped unharmed. It was nice to see them within the city limits.
Long Island Sound
A group of weekenders was having a...
Running Up That (Bull) Hill
May 7, 2014
It was early spring, and spring was late.
We had set out in search of interesting plants in a place I had visited last year and posted about here and there.
Hudson River
The Hudson Highlands State Park is a mere hour north of Harlem by train, the station being a couple of blocks from home. There are - albeit very few - advantages to living here.
It was obvious the minute we arrived and began our walk through the very small town of Cold Spring towards the trails t...
Going once, going twice...
May 4, 2014
Truth be told, there was only so much I could tweak while the old dark look remained active, so I have now pulled the curtain up on the new white skin.
Much remains to be adjusted, but in an almost agile development style - even though I am a one-man team, I will release frequent updates and fine-tune it all as I go. I promise.
The three components of my phenomenal online presence (this blog Coriolistic Anachronisms, Vincent Mounier Photography and the Print Shop) ha...