Friday was a day trip to the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY. The Hyde Collection is a museum and home of Louis and Charlotte Hyde.
Charlotte was the daughter of Samuel Pruyn, one of the founders of the Finch, Pruyn & Co. paper company. The paper mill is still operating and faces the rear of the museum. This photo is the main interior “courtyard” of the building. The image was created with three exposures, handheld, with post-production as an HDR photo.
The adjacent photo is the Finch Paper mill. It was founded in 1865 and now is part of Finch Paper in downtown Glens Falls. Here, logs are converted to pulp and then into paper. This is also an HDR image.
In the foreground is the “island” portion of Cooper’s Cave. James Fenimore Cooper explored the caves in this area and used the setting in his novel, The Last of the Mohicans.
This photo is just south of the one above and shows part of the falls at Glens Falls as well as a section of the hydroelectric plant that takes advantage of the water power there.
This image was made with three handheld exposures from the bridge over the river to create a color HDR photo. After working with the photos in Nik HDR Effects Pro, I converted the tone-mapped image into black and white using Nik Silver Effects Pro.