Two Decades of Springtime Photos
For the photographer (as well as for almost everyone else), spring is the supreme season. Here’s a collection of April-May-June shots I’ve taken over the years in New York City, mainly in Central Park (as with this photo, reflecting springtime strollers in the pond near the park’s southeast corner), and in the vicinity of our weekend CT home in Easton (Fairfield County).
Let’s begin in Easton, with this classic New England church serving as backdrop for a plentiful floral display; that tree limb “attacking” someone’s home; and the shadows cast on our back lawn by several large oak trees.
Here are the very trees behind our Easton house that cast those photogenic shadows.
Ah, the first bloom of spring pervades our yard from the blossoming weeping willow trees.
The budding azaleas are behind our tennis court.
This is our golden retriever Sydney, who keeps track of each season from her all-day perch near the house.
The Eisners – our friends and neighbors (in Weston) – have the most elegant lawn around, featuring wonderful metal sculptures by the talented Carole Eisner.
Every Memorial Day, there’s a celebratory parade in Easton that brings out the populace.
Some fauna of Fairfield County.
More of the same.
Our town, its structures, and the inhabitants also look good in black & white.
I can’t seem to pass by a cemetery without trying to capture juxtapositions of tombstones and varied flora.
These shots were taken in the nearby town of Westport.
Now for a change of pace – a trip to the campus of Princeton University.
Princeton also looks classy in black & white.
Now we’re on Park Avenue in New York City during the annual floral display.
And speaking of floral displays, here’s the one on the terrace of our Manhattan apartment.
Spring comes to Princeton’s Nassau Hall and to Cleopatra’s needle in Central Park.
You can usually find something man-made (like a high-rise) adjacent to the Park that provides depth to the floral display.
This sculpture can be found in the Park’s Conservatory Garden.
The ladies also look terrific in black & white, surrounded by floral semi-circles.
Here’s that flora in all its colorful beauty.
Central Park is an ideal setting for both the artist and the snoozers –
– to say nothing of preludes to nuptials.
Also for kids, with the Harlem Meer viewed from a high elevation.
Here’s the sailboat basin at East 74th Street.
Our forbears in bloom – commemorating a Pilgrim father.
Christopher Columbus, Hans Christian Anderson, and Alice’s new friend.
A wonderful sculpture in the Conservatory Garden (plus some real avian visitors), and Romeo and Juliet smooching outside the Delacorte Theatre.
A Central Park ballfield, and the clip-clop of a horse drawing its carriage.
Some lovely springtime images from the Park.
Reflections of apartment houses in the reservoir, both in color and black & white.
The limbs of the trees neatly set off the floral displays.
A colorful duck and the ubiquitous squirrel.
Blossoms against the Met museum’s southern façade, both in color and black & white.
Two of the West Side’s finest apartment houses – the San Remo and the Beresford – loom above the lake.
A few closing shots of luscious buds.
Some more of the same.
And to end our portfolio, a bushel of buds with the Bethesda Fountain in the background.