Images captured on October 26 and October 27, 2024.

Twin Lights Historical Society Lighthouse

Generator room with large lighthouse lens display and scaled engine demo:

Outside:

South tower:

Nikkor AF-S 14-24 adapted to GFX shows significant corner issues at 14mm setting. But in this case I rather liked it, adds a bit more of artistic effect:

Bit cropped view at 24mm setting with same lens.

Sandy Hook Beach

Next stop with some old beach batteries (or building remnants)

NYC and Manhattan on a horizon:

No trip should be completed without some mandatory wild-life photos :)

On the way back I’ve found a deer that was posing around and scratching horns around trees and bushes. Hand-held Nikkor AF-S II 300/2.8 lens with adapter was used to capture these moments:

Another deer specimen:

Sandy Hook Lighthouse:

This was perhaps a lifeguard watch tower which got filled with branches and stuff by birds to make a nest?

Some watergliding action captured with AF-S II 300mm lens, handheld with adapter on GFX100S. It was not easy to manage the heavy lens on fast moving target while adjusting focus manually (I only have cheap adapter without electronic drive).

I like this simple shot with a fisherman and huge cruise boat in the Atlantic ocean:

Images with GFX100 that was a second camera on the trip.

Visit to NJAA

Evening Saturday I’ve made a trip to New Jersey Astronomy Association observatory for the open public day presentation and captured some quick images there.

Fujifilm GFX100 was mounted on SkyWatcher star tracker and two lenses were used:

• Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8 for wide-angle images
• Nikkor AF-S II 300mm f/2.8 for narrow angle image with stars.

It was very welcoming and I was impressed to see so many people to come in, with families and kids too.

NJAA has some impressive gear, including largest in New Jersey publicly available 660 mm telescope. With membership visitors could enjoy observations and enjoy the stargazing sessions.

Few of the members telescopes were setup outside and all visitors had a chance to see targets in the sky.

I’ve seen Saturn with it’s glorious rings, it was surprisingly large and sharp. Somehow I was under impression that you need a very large NASA-style telescope to see the distant Saturn this sharp!

There are four smaller domes with large telescopes installed to provide great planetary and sky object observations.

I’ll be definately visiting this observatory again in future.

Boonton Gorge waterfalls

Few of the sunset images were captured around the waterfalls on Sunday:

Panoramic images stitched from multiple frames:

As always, all images are clickable for full resolution (mostly 100MP).