Riverscape
My first personal project (and possibly the single most important thing I did for myself after the age of 50) involved shooting the Hudson River from the Statue of Liberty to the river’s source flowing south from the outlet of Henderson Lake.
From that point on, until it reaches its first lighthouse, The Statue of Liberty, the river is cartographically known as the Hudson River. The US Geological Survey uses this cartographical definition. The romantic source is Lake Tear of The Clouds, 1000 feet below the summit of Mt. Marcy, in the Adirondack Park at an altitude of 4,322 feet, but my knees and lungs said NO, you are not doing that.
Of course the most wonderful thing about the Hudson is it isn’t just a river. Indeed until it reaches Troy and Albany it is an estuary. It is tidal and a mixture of salt and sweet water. Just like people!
