{"id":24194,"date":"2019-09-06T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=24194"},"modified":"2019-09-06T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:00:14","slug":"some-pics-from-the-staten-island-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2019\/09\/06\/some-pics-from-the-staten-island-ferry.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Pics From the Staten Island Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just trying to break in a camera I snagged cheap off eBay last week. It’s a Sony DSC-HX50, which I intend to use mostly when I need a long zoom. I had this same camera before but killed it by not taking proper care.<\/p>\n

It rained while I was on the Staten Island Ferry, making most of these picture look I shot them black & white. The Photoshop tricks are kind of cheap but hey, I’m not trying to fool anybody. The zoom is not even close to what one would expect from a DSLR, but in better light I find it gets amazingly clear shots. The clouds and rain made these shots grainier than one might have expected.<\/p>\n

I had not been on the Staten Island Ferry for a long time. I forgot how majestic it can feel sitting up front, watching the water and waves as the ocean breeze wraps salt around you. I was afraid I’d get seasick, as happened a couple of weeks ago when I took the Astoria Ferry to Wall Street. I was feeling ill for 45 minutes after getting off that raucous beast of a boat. By comparison the Staten Island Ferry felt like solid land.<\/p>\n

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Just trying to break in a camera I snagged cheap off eBay last week. It’s a Sony DSC-HX50, which I intend to use mostly when I need a long zoom. I had this same camera before but killed it by not taking proper care. It rained while I was on the Staten Island Ferry, making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Staten-Island-Ferry-DSC01716.jpg?fit=5184%2C3888&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-6ie","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24204,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24194\/revisions\/24204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}