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ALWAYS Look Both Ways

… in front of you and behind you.

This past Saturday morning we stopped along the Delaware River in Upper Black Eddy, PA with the intention of shooting the bridge that crosses the river into New Jersey. The boat access was just a tad downstream of the bridge so I pulled in, headed down the ramp [...]

Sunrise Solitude

In a recent post, Why No People?, I attempted to answer the question why there are so seldom any people in my images. What it all comes down to is that I like the personal feeling that my images represent to me. It is me at one with nature. I am alone in my world. [...]

An Inside Look into the Life of a Nature Photographer: The Weekend in Review – Day 3, Monday (Memorial Day)

When we went to bed Sunday night we had no definitive plans for Monday. I awoke around 0330 and as I lay in bed, what to do became crystal clear. I thought back to Thursday, the day I made the sunrise abstracts. I set out that morning to make some vertical sunrise images at Lake [...]

Reflections on Acadia

It was a tough weekend. Between some lousy weather and other commitments, I didn’t get a single image made this weekend. So today I started to look forward to our October 2010 trip to Acadia National Park (ME) and reflect back on our last visit in June 2009. I looked through some of my images [...]

Sunrise/Sunset Over the Lake (Part 2 – Sunset)

This is the follow-up to my previous post highlighting the sunrise images from the weekend.

This first sunset image is one that I had been thinking about all week. I knew what I wanted to do or at least try. I wanted to make sunset (and sunrise) images using the Lensbaby with the Fisheye optic. I [...]

Sunrise/Sunset Over the Lake (Part 1 – Sunrise)

This has been quite the crazy weekend. Nothing really went as planned and yet as I sit here on Sunday evening, everything appears to be ending well. And for that I am thankful.

Virtually all my photography this weekend involved very short jaunts (it’s about a 20-25 minute drive) to a local lake (Lake Nockamixon in [...]

“Last Light”

I’m a morning person. Always have been and at this point in my life always will be. So it is no surprise that I have a strong preference for early starts and sunrises. If I want to see a sunrise, walk into a sunrise, or photograph a sunrise, I have many places where I can [...]

Sunrise, Sandy Hook, NJ – 01/16/10

8.0 sec @ f/22; ISO 100; -1/3 EV

6.0 sec @ f/22; ISO 100; -2/3 EV

Barb and I were up at 0400 and headed off for Sandy Hook. We arrived before sunrise, actually before civil twilight, and I set up on Chokecherry Beach to photograph the sunrise. The morning was tad cloudier than I had hope [...]

Sunrise at Sandy Hook (NJ)

(1/160 sec @ f/11, ISO 400, -1 EV)

This image was made this past Saturday morning at Chokecherry Beach, Sandy Hook, NJ about 7 minutes after offical sunrise. The clouds really caught my attention as we drove across the bridge and on to the thin strip of land that is Sandy Hook. It was just a [...]

Mr & Mrs Photographer

While I take the time needed to process other images from among the well over 1,000 that I made during our stay in Bar Harbor/Acadia, I thought I would give you this image of my wife and me sitting on a rock atop Cadillac Mountain on our last day of vacation. 

I made this image with [...]