Jeff Ginter Photography

09/07/2019

Here a few shots I took in 2016 at the 7th Annual Gathering of the Tribes at Brown's Farm located at 890 Luther Road, East Greenbush NY 12061.

09/07/2019

EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. (NEWS10)—The bear clan is holding their 10th annual Gathering of the Tribes at Brown’s Farm in East Greenbush this weekend. The gates open at 9 am with the ceremonial circle op…

09/04/2019

Love Gavin and friends!

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09/04/2019

One of many American White water lilies photographed from one of our recent trips to the old family private campgrounds in Grafton NY.

06/30/2019

Had a great time exploring the Erie Canal area Lock 6 State Park this early morning. Here is a shot I took of NYS Canal Corporation's tug Lockport, a medium-sized working tug, seen here on the Mohawk River docked next to Guard Gate 2 of the Erie Canal. This 50ft long, 15ft wide vessel has a 12ft overhead clearance and was built in 1949.
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06/27/2019

American Bald Eagle Juvenile.

I've recently heard about a good number of Eagle sighting in the Waterford area along Flightlock Road running beside the canal.

After work this morning I took a few minutes drive to investigate, but I didn't even get a thousand yards past the start of visible canal water on Fonda Road before I spotted this juvenile in a tree a few minutes before 6 AM. Making a quick turn around I parked about a thousand yards off. Slowly walking over to the tree with the tripod, camera, and remote trigger. No hiding from him, there never is, but he seemed OK with me there as I make no sudden or quick movements and little noise as possible to annoy the birds. If I had to guesstimate this Eagle was a distance from me of at least 60 feet(?) probably no more than 80. It and the broken tree branch it sat on were set back behind leaves and branches in the foreground forcing me to frame it tight. Attempting to move me, tripod, and the camera would most likely spook the bird so tried my best to set up where I could make the shot work.

As with most hawks & eagles, I come across in the early morning along the Hudson and Mohawk they seem to like facing the sunrise. Great news for taking photos once the actual sun begins to rise up casting a warm light on to the front of the bird. He put up with me shooting for a good 45 minutes while I watched and waited for him to turn his head certain ways while the sun rose higher and higher until at a few minutes to 7 it was time to go home pretty confident I had some keepers on my cards.

I could watch these birds all day long every day. Always exciting for me.

06/08/2019

A quick photo from this morning's 5 AM river walk.

06/07/2019

Took a wonderful walk along the Hudson River this AM as the sun rose. Toward the end, I found a nice surprise!

I was walking the sidewalk between the I-90 off-ramp and the black metal fence that borders the preserve. A pine tree just on the other side of the said fence had a dozen blackbirds making a commotion and dive bombing this hawk perched in the middle of the same tree. It took me several minutes to spot her at 1st as she slowly made her way up the tree. She didn't seem to be too bothered with me taking photos of her a mere 30 feet away. Although after 20 minutes the hawk had enough of the birds annoying her and flew off.

It is always an awesome experience being so close to these big hunters whether it be an eagle, hawk or owl.

09/11/2018

Rained all day, but that didn't stop me from a walk around the yard having fun in the rain to take these snapshots.

09/11/2018

A few from the Gathering of the Tribes on Brown's Farm yesterday while I attended with my family.

09/09/2018

This was captured from our driveway with the SMC Pentax-A 50mm F1.7 on my Pentax K-3 in one shot. A few little edits in darktable to taste and I'm happy with the end results.

Shot on a tripod using a cable release with the manual setting of ƒ/3.2 at ISO 6400 for 10 seconds.

09/08/2018

One way beach

Taken handheld with the Pentax K-3 and SMC Pentax-DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 ED AL [IF] DC WR lens at West Dennis Public Beach, Massachusetts.