The World through our Lenses

hawk in flight ai, a photo by Tom Rutledge – Photosbytomandpolly.com on Flickr.

This photo placed first in the second competition of the Kingston Photo Club. This is a shot of a red tail hawk out of a moving car.

brrr let me in, a photo by Tom Rutledge – Photosbytomandpolly.com on Flickr.

Yesterday we had a mini ice storm in Kingston so some photos had to be had

footprints in the ice, a photo by Tom Rutledge – Photosbytomandpolly.com on Flickr.

So catching up on posting photos from the last week or so, enjoy.

So off to lemoine point and Amherst Island for a day trip looking for wild life to shoot(with a camera). We encountered wolves, bald eagles, snowy owls, red tail and harrier hawks, llamas, cows and sheep to name a few. So enjoy the pics.

Today along with Polly, Adam and Sean we went bird shooting in Lemoines point. here are the results of todays shooting. Enjoy.

Adam and I gave a lecture about light painting to the Kingston Photo Club last night and to my surprise we got a large audience participation happening. Here are the shots from the participation portion of the evening. Enjoy.

rmc orb, a photo by Tom Rutledge – Photosbytomandpolly.com on Flickr.

I had a photo make it in the finals for the Kingstonist greatest photo contest and hoping to make it even further. Have a look here All and all it’s nice to have photos picked for contests. Hope you take time to vote.

So off to paint the town last night Adam, Sean and I first headed to RMC and did an orb in the arch. Off to Richardson’s beach, PUC Dock, the breakwater and finally Time. Despite a cold wind coming off the lake the evening went well. ENJOY the pics.

The annual Exhibition is held in the Wilson Room of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library, on Johnson Street. Throughout the month of January 2012. I will be displaying 2 pieces along with everyone else that entered and am hoping others will take time out to visit the show.

Speaker – Karen Dolan, Executive Director of the Kingston Arts Council

7pm to 9pm. Please try to get there before 7pm. Buffet available. Among all the usual things, it’s hoped to get a few really good pictures of the whole membership.

Adam and I walked Lemoine point today and had great luck with seeing lots of birds and deer but no owls.

Lemoine Point Conservation Area has an interesting history. It’s changed hands numerous times since the era of European exploration, when it was part of the seigneury of Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle. The land was seized from the French after the British won the Seven Years War in 1760. After the American Revolutionary War in 1784, it was awarded to the United Empire Loyalist Captain Johan Jots Herkimer. After Captain Herkimer’s death in 1795, his third son Nicholas, a farmer, inherited the property and held it till his death in 1809 when he was murdered in Bath by two blacksmiths. It then remained in the Herkimer family until the 1830s.
The Point had by then become known locally as Herkimer’s Nose, and later as Herkimer’s Point.

During the War of 1812, several cannons were planted on the Point in the expectation that the Americans might land there in an attempt to capture Kingston.

In 1836, the Point was sold to Captain William Lemoine, a retired British Army officer who settled here. After his death, the Point was inherited by his son J.W. Lemoine, a bachelor, who was killed in the winter of 1872 when his sleigh overturned on Collin’s Bay. The property remained with family relations until the 1910s, and by that time it was partly wooded and partly a farm with a large stone house and other buildings, with a total of 2 1/2 miles of shoreline.

It is the Lemoine family that eventually gave us the Point’s current name.

In 1918, the property was purchased by William Hugh Coverdale. He was the son of a prominent Kingston family, and as a boy had actually been known to roam the Point. As an adult, he moved to the United States and eventually became a wealthy industrialist and financier, including building the Southern Steel Company into a very successful business and being a co-founder and president of Canada Steamship Lines. Thus his wealth enabled him, at the age of 47, to purchase the Point. It provided him and his family a retreat from his very busy life, especially for rest and recreation in the summer.

Shortly after buying the property and during excavation for a second stone house, several old cannon balls were unearthed, presumably remnants of the naval action of just over 100 years earlier.

When Coverdale died in 1949, and his wife in 1955, the property was inherited by their four children, who continued to summer at the farm.

Thus it is in large part the Coverdale’s use of the Point as an estate that enabled this natural site to now still be in our midst. The northern entrance road to Lemoine Point, Coverdale Drive, is named after the family.

In the 1960s and 1970s, various local politicians became interested in acquiring the Point as parkland. Although they ran into many roadblocks, including funding problems and OMB delays, they were eventually successful in 1975 in acquiring a large part (337 acres) of the Point on behalf of the CRCA.

An 88 acre section with the stone houses and working farm (the current Lemoine Point Farm) was retained by one of William Coverdale’s four children.