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Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, PA)

After spending a couple of early morning hours photographing the vibrant colors of the Graffiti Underground, our workshop groups headed over to Eastern State Penitentiary where we would spend the rest of the day. The penitentiary itself has been closed since 1971 and in many areas there are now nearly 40 years worth of dust, [...]

Graffiti Underground

In my last blog post, I mentioned that I was heading out for a weekend HDR photography workshop with Tony Sweet. I purposely selected this workshop for two main reasons. First, I greatly admire Tony and his body of work. And second while I do quite a bit of HDR photography, the subject matter revolving [...]

Shooting the Works… Fireworks, That Is!

We finally had an opportunity to meet up with some Facebook friends this past Friday evening and photograph the weekly Friday night fireworks display offered up by the town of New Hope, PA. For those of you unfamiliar with the area, New Hope, and it’s sister town across the bridge spanning the Delaware River – [...]

An Inside Look into the Life of a Nature Photographer: The Weekend in Review – Day 1, Saturday

I was contemplating what, from this weekend, I wanted to add to my blog. After thinking about it a while, I concluded why not take you through the entire weekend. So let’s start at the beginning, Saturday morning.

Saturday more was a “late” start for us. We were up at 0530 and out of the house [...]

A Different View of Sunrise

Yesterday I was up at 0400 and out of the house by 0420 in search of a sunrise to shoot. When looking for as close to sure thing as I can find, I always seem to return to the marina at Lake Nockamixon (Nockamixon State Park, Bucks County, PA). And yesterday was no exception. I [...]

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 [...]

“4 2″ (A or B)

How’s that for cryptic title. “4  2″ is what I have entitled this image for what is a hopefully obvious reason. The “A or B” is because I will show two versions of the same image and would like to know which you prefer.

Here’s the story. I made this image yesterday morning shortly after sunrise [...]

Marina Sunrise

We returned to Lake Nockamixon in Nockamixon State Park (Bucks County, PA) this morning in hopes of capturing another great sunrise. There wasn’t much structure (clouds) in the sky to add interest and color to the composition so I decided to pull in some of the boats moored in the slips at the marina. I [...]

Pushing the Envelope

As many of you already know, almost every time I wander out with my camera I end up tacking on (which isn’t really the right word since it makes it sound like an afterthought and it isn’t; it’s pre-planned) some shots that are meant to push the boundaries of my photography. In fact as I [...]

Covered Bridges – Inside and Out!

This past weekend I had the pleasure of shooting with a group of my Facebook friends who had come into the Lehigh Valley in search of covered bridges. While the bridges were new fodder for my out-of-town friends, I had photographed them several times in the past. This was particularly true of the first bridge [...]