Robin Supak Won the Otsego Land and Trust Amateur Photography Contest

"Sonia Sola, Arthur, and Daisy, Nectar Hills Farm, Late August, 7 p.m."Robin Supak won this year's amatuer division of the Otsego Land Trust "On the Farm, In the Garden" Photo Contest! Amateur Category- Robin Supak, "Sonia Sola, Arthur, and Daisy, Nectar Hills Farm, Late August, 7 p.m." taken at Nectar Hills Farm, Schenevus, New York.

You can see more pictures of upstate New York's Nectar Hills Farm on their web site, including many more of Robin's pictures. Nectar Hills Farm is all organic, and their grass-fed beef is better for you, the animal, and the planet.

This photograph can be found in the Catskills Mountains Sunsets category here at our computer backgrounds galleries.

Catskill Mountains Sunset Pictures

Upstate New York Catskill Mountains Sunset PictureOn a trip into the northern Catskill mountains, Robin Supak took these Catskill Mountains pictures of a great upstate New York sunset! These great photographs were taken near south Worcester, NY, which is east of Oneonta, NY and south of Cobleskill, NY.

These desktop wallpaper pictures were taken on our trip home from our son Spencer's winning playoff game in Jefferson, New York. The Cherry Valley Patriots baseball team went on to win the Tri-Valley Championship!

Last gasp of winter

A frosty tree line near Cooperstown, in upstate New York.A couple of cold nights, with a little dusting of snow, and that's about it for this mild winter. Hell, I only got to barbeque in 0 degrees once! Here are a few shots from this past winter, and that'll be it. Soon, the ramps will be out, the garden will get planted, and the photographs will have a lot more green in them!

Double Railroad Trestles

This railroad bridge is one of two crossing US Route 20 in the same spot, west of Albany, NY.These railroad trestles cross US Route 20 west of Albany (a few miles west of Crossglades Mall). It was a cold day, my hands were freezing (as was the water under the bridge), but I couldn't resist taking a few shots of this rusted but still working remnant of an industrial age that keeps hanging on.

As with all our pictures taken since we moved east (see the cross-country series from 2008), these photos are available in very high resolution versions--just ask about them. These 1600 pixel wide versions are available to use under the creative commons license. All we ask is for a link to Supak.com in return. Commercial users please contact us about the higher resolution versions.

A Wet Blanket on Baseball Town

Statues at the Baseball Hall of Fame in CooperstownAbout 6 inches of the wet stuff last night was enough to give us a preview of tomorrow's blizzard. While we were out getting supplies for the big event, I got a few computer background shots from around Cooperstown NY, including the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Wait. Do they have a Minor League Baseball Hall of Fame? They should...

I particularly love this shot of the statues with snow on them. It adds to the sense of gravity defiance. Or reminds that gravity rules all. Or something. There's also shots of the Hall of Fame proper, the headwaters of the Susquehanna River, which is just astoundingly beautiful in the snow, and main street with it's American flag and electric wires and slushy snow covered street.

Stay tuned for more fun with blizzards!

Free Desktop Wallpaper pictures from Cherry Valley, NY

The Historic Village of Cherry Valley NYIt's cold out there, but the days have been getting just above freezing, which makes for some great icicles! The snow has been slowly piling up (amazing that DC has had more snow than we have this year) slowly, and this morning was particularly beautiful with the sun coming up over the historic village of Cherry Valley, NY, shown here from the hill north of town, looking south down the Cherry Valley Creek watershed.

We just posted some photographs from around Cherry Valley, including a couple of desktop wallpaper bird pictures and some pictures of icicles that are particularly impressive after a few days that got just above freezing.

We have two feet of snow coming this week, so we'll be out taking all kinds of great show pictures! The great thing about snow up here is that they deal with it very well. The plow guys get out immediately, and there are plenty of plows.

You really have to hand it to those guys. It's a tough job at odd hours, and when the plow breaks, I've seen them out there in the snow crawling under those big trucks to fix salty-snow covered parts... Not an enviable position, especially when it's butt ass cold out there.

Female Cardinal on Our Back PorchI'll try to get a picture of one of the plows in action. It's really quite a site when they're cruising along sending up a huge spray of snow in their wake. I'll need the wide angle lens we just bought for that!

We also got a telephoto lens, which I've wanted for bird pictures for a long time now. Got this great shot of a female cardinal the other day, and maybe I'll get lucky and get a shot of the very shy pileated woodpecker one of these days.

Glad we got these new lenses right before the big snow. Should be fun. As long as the satellite internet connection holds out, we'll be uploading the pictures as we get them, so stay tuned.

New lenses:

• Canon EF 20mm f/2.8 USM Wide Angle Lens for Canon SLR Cameras
• Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 III Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon SLR Cameras

Robin's Abstract Holiday Lights Photography

Robin Supak's abstract photograph of the village Christmas Tree in Cherry Valley, New York.Robin was out taking her abstract photographs this holiday season and here are the best of that abstract photography series. Her lens-in-motion technique creates patterns out of otherwise motionless lights, creating an otherworldly sensation of light and movement that works well for a wide variety of graphic arts projects like computer backgrounds, sign-making, web-graphics, and artistic endeavors of all kinds.

The picture here is of the Cherry Valley New York Village Christmas tree. The ghostly impression behind and to the left is the town's Civil War monument.