Spring was ready to reveal itself on the 187-acre Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge in Noyack, New York. During our two-hour photo hike sponsored by the Middle Country Public Library in Centereach, patrons walked among the wild birds and beachfront, a peninsula in part surrounded by Noyack and Little Peconic bays. Managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the refuge is a part of the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
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Blacksmithing
A visit to living history in a Greenport, NY barn reveals that “blacksmithing is still alive and well,” according to Tom Barry, Village Blacksmith. “There is no threat to blacksmithing,” he said.
On weekends in the historic maritime whaling port you can find Barry “smithing” over a hot anthracite coal fire in the Front Street barn where he works on weekends. That barn, from East Marion, was moved to the site of the original blacksmith barn in view of Greenport’s marina.
Barry often hears visitors making an inaccurate claim that his is a lost art.
“We don’t exist in this form,” he says–referring to the living museum from which he works–“where you walk around the village and might see two or three blacksmith shops working all day. Now, we’re just farriers who drive to the barns who shoe the horses; toolmakers who work out of buildings in their backyards, and professional blacksmiths who have hybrid shops doing forging and welding, all doing beautiful architectural work. These businesses are all over.” –Miranda Gatewood
Outdoor Photo Trek, Winter 2021
Join me to tour and photograph the clarity and beauty of East End light in this in-person field workshop at spectacular outdoor locations, sponsored by East End Arts, NY. Create landscape, waterscape, and still life images. Shoot in all conditions including available light, slow shutter, sunset, moonrise, and silky water effects. Bring a tripod and a face covering. Ages teen through adult, all levels welcome.
Wednesdays, 4-7 PM (3-class series / or individual class) March 17, 24, (no class March 31), April 7. Cost for 3-week series: East End Arts members: $180.00; non-members: $216. Cost for single class: members: $65; non-members: $78. Sign up at East End Arts, 141 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901 631-369-2171 education@eastendarts.org EastEndArts.org
Long Island Winterfest Kickoff Party 2020
Last Outdoor Photo Trek of June
This Wednesday, our Outdoor Photo Trek class will tour one of my favorite spots–Greenport, NY. This is the last class of the 4-part session sponsored by East End Arts and we’ll visit the places where I took these images–all within one square mile. If you think of photography as the art of exclusion (think cropping) then the smallest spaces become little universes of detail. Sign up for the more in the next session, a guided tour of incredible landscapes and waterscapes of Eastern Long Island. May the light guide you!