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Sunrise at the Jake (Jacobsburg State Park)

Those of you who have followed my blog for the past year or longer know that Barb and I will often head to Jacobsburg State Park (PA) since it is close (a 20 minute drive) and a great place for Barb to bird and me to photograph (particularly wildflowers this time of year).

This post is [...]

An Inside Look into the Life of a Nature Photographer: The Weekend in Review – Day 2, Sunday

Sunday was the day we chose for a return trip to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. I wanted to do some more scouting for the workshops I plan to offer there in 2011. (Keep an eye out this Fall for more details.) This was a trip that we had planned for each of [...]

Riverblur

This series, well it’s only two images, is from an evening walk along the Delaware Canal towpath (Delaware Canal State Park, PA) which, for much of its length, runs along a narrow spit of land between the canal and the Delaware River. I have often joked that it is a state park that is nearly [...]

IR Ed…

Who R U?

Yep, I feel like IR (Infrared) Ed this week. I’ve been bringing my IR-converted Canon Rebel XT along with my Canon 50mm f/1.8 ($99 special) lens with me to work each day this week. The IR camera is a particularly good choice for my lunchtime walks because IR can tend to [...]

Reflections

I had a great weekend of shooting all within one hour of home. Friday was the day to visit Lake Galena in Peace Valley Park (Bucks County, PA) for sunrise. Saturday, my wife and I headed for the Delaware Water Gap NRA for sunrise and a morning of shooting and hiking. Sunday, being Easter, was [...]

Branching Out

This is another 10-image multiple exposure image that I made recently.

I have been giving multiple exposures, pans, digital sandwiches, etc. a lot of thought lately, particularly after reading about some different techniques in a book entitled Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image by Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant. I would highly recommend the book if [...]

Into the Fog

(1/100 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 200; 0 EV; FL 70mm)

I mentioned in my “Birches” post that I originally found my way to the top of South Mountain and Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Campus by follow the shroud of fog that enveloped the very top of the mountain. While I devoted most of my attention to the [...]

Birches

(Vertical Pan; 1.0 sec @ f/14; ISO 100; 0 EV; FL 70mm w/ Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L and my 5D Mark II)

There was a short break in the rains this morning so we headed out in search of something to photograph. I followed the fog to the top of South Mountain and Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Campus. [...]

Where many have gone before…

Creativity and the creative process itself are things that many have sought to explain. During the course of my undergraduate and graduate education which was in psychology, I crossed paths many times with those much more learned and much more famous that me who wrote volumes on the creative process. But sometimes it is the [...]

Just about when you are ready to give up…

Cold (17F), blustery (20-30 mph winds) but we decided to go out this morning anyway. Admittedly most of the morning was spent in the car driving from site to site looking for birds for my wife (we found the albino hawk she wanted to see) and anything for me to shoot. After two hours, I [...]