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Scouting Out a Workshop Location – Sandy Hook, NJ

My familiarity with the Sandy Hook, NJ portion of Gateway National Recreational Area goes back probably a decade. It started with an interest in lighthouses that my wife and I share and a visit to the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. Originally built in 1764, Sandy Hook is the oldest lighthouse still in existence in America.

As time [...]

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 [...]

Fisheye Madness

As I said in my previous post, I took only my Lensbaby Composer with accessories on my visit to Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, PA) this past Monday. The Hibiscus images presented in my prior post were made with the Lensbaby with Soft Focus Optic and Macro lens. I now turn to several images made with [...]

Stumped! Waiting for the Gnomes to Emerge

Never forget that “image” forms the root of “imagination”.

Another toy for my bag. Another kind of image to look at. Another opportunity to use our imagination in composing the image, making the image, processing the image and looking at the image.

The fisheye optic for my Lensbaby Composer arrived on Wednesday and I couldn’t wait to [...]