Second Day of Sukkot
Posted by Avital Pinnick on October 4, 2009
I needed a break from guests and entertaining, so I went out with my camera and tripod to take a few photos on Saturday night.
One of our neighbours spends hours decorating his sukkah and he let me photograph it. He collects interesting things from junk shops and has found some amazing pieces among the trash.
During the holiday we are supposed to try to live as much as possible in the sukkah. A family watches the “Wizard of Oz” on a laptop at night.
I walked up Metsiltayim street and then up one of the staircases to HaNevel, to photograph Mitzpeh Nevo. This photo is not a panorama. It was cropped at the top to remove the expanse of empty sky and at the bottom to remove the water heaters and rooftops. One of these days I’ll try to put in notes about the lights on the horizon.
Actually, I had wanted to recreate a photo I took in December, 2007, when I had just bought a Canon PowerShot S5:
Here’s the version I took last night with the Canon Rebel XSi:
The lights have changed and the SLR has better focus.
