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Located south of the town of Watkins Glen is the town of Montour Falls which features Aunt Sarah and She-Qua-Ga Falls.
This was taken from a 35 minute timelapse shot of Bodie Island lighthouse (on 7-7-13). The star trail adds an eerie vertigo effect. I set the top of the lighthouse on the North Star (Polaris). The 85 still images were edited in Lightroom and assembled in Photoshop by lightening layers.
Indians had named this area "An-de-ka-ga-kwa", meaning "the place where the sun lingers", and it has been said through Indian lore that when the sun passes over the glen it pauses a moment longer there than at any other part of the valley. This is the Middle Falls on the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park near Castile, NY.
This was an abandoned 1947 Ford stake body truck left in the woods by my father-in-law several years before he passed away. Eventually, it was sold as scrap and hauled away.
Finished in Photoshop by combining Smart Objects of duplicate layers, applying threshold adjustment, with Oil Paint and Posterize filters. Multiple adjustment layers for color, saturation, hue, and levels.
The Milky Way wanes over Portsmouth Island and the strands toward Cape Lookout. The light pollution from Morehead City is over 40 miles away. This is one of the darkest places you can go on the East Coast. This night was a New Moon.
Shore Drive has been vastly improved by a new four lane bridge with sidewalks crossing the Lynnhaven Inlet, which is near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia Beach. This long exposure of 20 seconds was taken at an ISO 100 and f/16 aperture which gives the starburst effects on most any light; especially at night.
Portland Head Light is one of the most photograph lighthouses in the world; for obvious reasons. The rugged coastline of Casco Bay and the contrasting architecture of the lighthouse and buildings is strikingly beautiful.
Stories of tourist walking into the Keeper's quarter are endless. In the 1960's, the lightkeeper forgot to lock the door of the house, and tourist walked into the house while his wife bathed.
Another famous visitor was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In his young days, he wrote "The Lighthouse":
"Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same,
Year after year, through all the silent night
Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame,
Shines on that inextinguishable light!"
Heavy showers earlier in the evening led to patchy fog and low roaming clouds along the western slopes of the Blue Ridge. While attempting to capture Comet Neowise, I took several shots of the Moon just before it disappeared behind the clouds and before it set for the night. Lightning and thunder over the Shenandoah Valley lead to an even more mysterious stage as the evening slipped away.
This was taken at the Thalia Creek Launch facility in Virginia Beach Tuesday, 6/25 with my iPhone using the camera in the Lightroom Mobile app.
Restored in 2012, this historic depot was built in 1891 and was a tourist destination of New Englend. The station still serves the Conway Scenic Railroad.
Portsmouth was established in 1753, and the Island was once a thriving community along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This fishing hamlet served as a strongpoint during trying times, but steadily the population dwindled as times changed. By 1956, only 17 residents remained on the island, and in 1971 the last remaining residents relunctantly moved to the mainland.
In 1976, Cape Lookout National Seashore brought new life and tourism to the area; however, no residents live there. Caretakers and volunteers help maintain the trails and building that remain. The full-time resident marsh mosquito dominant the marshways as the land slowly settles into the Pamilco Sound. With a little repellant, life is bearable and there is soltitude and time to reflect on the past.
Located on the Lubec Narrows, Mulholland light was built in 1884 and is constructed of wood. It is situated on the southwest side of Campobello Island, New Brunswick.
This is considered a lower boreal forest. The ground is highly acidic, there is an absence of deciduous trees, and a lot of sphagnum moss, red spruce, and balsam fir. The nutrient poor soil will not allow broad-leaf trees.
Taken by Battery Sullivan. I pulled up as the Sun had set. It was fairly clear but some clouds off the coast SE of Cape Elizabeth were illuminated by the setting Sun.
This is a six second exposure using a stacked circular polarizing filter and a soft gradient filet.
Taken at Crawford Depot, just north of Crawfords Notch. This track serves the Conway Scenic Railroad (Maine) and the Mountain Division (New Hampshire).
The Ocean Path along the southeast portion of Acadia National Park continues to Otter Point where the cliifs offer the most spectacular views along the North Atlanic Seaboard.
Rays of sunlight beam through breaks of the clouds by Mount Adams and illuminate the spurs of Mount Madison.
I occasionally go back to edit photos that I have taken in the past; this was from November 2012. This composite image used a photo stacking (or layering) technique in Photoshop. I call it cloud stacking. I used thirty images where only the clouds were in motion during two and a half minutes. Just after sunset, the bottom of the clouds were lit by a break in the clouds at the horizon. These thirty images were selected from the total sequence of 300.
The peach trees of Saunder's Brothers orchard and nursey provides a beautiful setting; of course it didn't hurt for the setting Sun to put on a light either.
My grandmother was raised ess than a quarter mile south of the view and my relatives are buried at Harewood Cemetery on the knoll in the background.
Hurricane Sandy dumped snow along the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2012, but it didn't hang around long with the rising temperatures. In Montebello, atop Spy Rock (el. 3885) the vantage point is jaw-dropping on a clear day, but a day in the clouds isn't half bad. This view is looking east into the Tye, Piney, and James River valley below.
Sun Rays filtering through fast moving clouds over the Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Intervale is a small unincorporated New Hampshire town located in the Mount Washington Valley and twelve miles from the Maine border. As you can see, it is a tourist attraction for sightseeing, skiing, and fishing. Multiple rivers join to make the Saco River. "Saco" comes from the Eastern Abenaki word meaning "land where the river comes out".
Just 45 minutes before I took this photo, I come thru Crawford's Notch which was in the fog and clouds. Looking the the Presidential Range from this angle you can make out (L to R) Eisenhower, Franklin, Monroe, Washington, (behind the foreground) Adams, and Madison.
The reflection of the setting Sun caught my attention, as we reminisced with family and friends this weekend.
For the plus forty years I've been on this section of the south fork of the Tye River, this is the healthiest water quality and highest sustained level water I have ever seen. The rainfall from the remnants of Florence didn't leave lasting damage, but the bottom of the river was clean from algae bloom which is normally witnessed on the canopy covered river. The constant drone of the river brings about a peace I cannot find elsewhere.
Steep Falls near Standish, ME. The Saco River begins with its headwaters in the White Mountains of New Hampshire at Crawford Notch in the Presidential Range and ends at Saco Bay in the Atlantic Ocean.
On the way back from Split Rock (my family's river property) I timed our departure to coincide with the moonrise. This was taken below Tyro looking at the Priest and Three Ridges. As the moon broke through some clouds over Pigeon Hill, it illuminated Flippin's bottom and the mountains. I'm sure i aroused the attention of some (rarely) passing locals.
This was the final resting place of the old '47 stake bed before it was hauled away in 2013 on a chilly November night. I had used a hand-held light in a brown paper bag to paint the foreground.
The original image was slightly out of focus when I went to print it. Recently, I learned a technique of using smart object filters in Photoshop, it allowed me to create this image. It has four layers, each with multiple filters and adjustments. The oil paint filter offers forgiveness in the focus defect and gives the image a deco texture. The night sky was masked from the adjustments.
When viewed, I encourage a larger high resolution screen; mobile devices will not give you the ability to see the details. This is going to print.
From this point the main focus is the Middle Falls, but just above that are the Upper Falls. The newly constructed Norfolk Southern Railroad bridge borders the top.
The trajectory for the International Space Station had it enter view from the NW, pass nearly directly overhead, and fall into the Earth's shadow just before traversing Jupiter.
I was fumbling with my Canon SL1 with the Magic Lantern intervalometer and discovered that the only battery was dead. I quickly switched lenses to my Canon 6D MkII, and (without the intervalometer) held my shutter in slow burst mode for 60 frames. I salvaged 52 after cropping the fisheye composite image. 1.6 seconds per frame, ISO 1600, and f/2.8 on the Rokinon 12mm focus near infinity. Base layer was still shot for test lighting (manual lens), top layers lightened, and mask applied to top layers to hide star trail.
Coming here early on a week day is to enjoy solitude. Yes, we were the only ones there! Unfortunately, the trail was spoiled by the litter left from the weekend warriors. It's a shame that some people are such poor stewards of this public (wilderness) land.
This is a panorama of 16 images (4x4) taken at ISO 100, 1/8 second, f/11.
The black still freshwater water of Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp gives a distinct mirrored reflection. This photo is six landscape frames stitched for a 180-degree panoramic view at the National Wildlife Refuge's boat ramp along the Interior Ditch. This was taken on an almost calm, but sweltering hot day. The swifts were having a field day in the open areas while the mosquitoes, yellow flies, and horseflies ruled the sky on the interior wooded sections of the refuge.
Lake Drummond is one of only two natural lakes in Virginia. The lakes maximum depth is 6 feet, it is roughly 5 square miles in area, and features nearly 8.5 miles of shoreline. The lake itself is the highest point in the refuge.
Alexander Spotswood (governor of Virginia and my 6th great grandfather), called the swamp a "No-man’s-land" and declared that "Loose and disorderly people daily flock" to the area.
No not the candy bar! That's the planet Mars towards to east and the Milky Way (with Jupiter in the center) taken on a New Moon. Significant light pollution from Amherst and points south.
Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Rokinon 12mm 2.8 fisheye lens @ 20 sec, 6400 ISO
Headlamp bounced off of tree behind me.
Southwest of the summit of Mt. Washington is AMC Lakes of Clouds Hut (one mile and 1200 feet below). Yes, you can book a room there!. Three miles away is Mt. Eisenhower (4,780′ ASL). Even further is Crawford Notch (out of sight) and the immense White Mountain range
There are occasional trees that are distorted, but typically on the summit of Cadillac Mountain you see spruce and pitch pine combined with tiny subalpine plants (such as cinquefoil), squat, gnarled trees, wild blueberries, and various sized boulders left by ancient glaciers.
This is a composite photograph of six frames with multiple exposures, multiple aperatures, three lens zoom lengths, and stacking layers.
This was taken from one standing sopt, before and during a fireworks show in Virginia Beach across from Mount Trashmore (City park) along I-264.
Photoshop has become a powerful tool, and combimed with Lightroom/raw imagery one can create a mosiac compostion like this; preserving my native images.
As you enter the gorge, you climb hand cut stairs through a tunnel which ends at the Sentry Bridge overlooking Glen Creek and the town of Watkin's Glen.
Nestled in the rural Central Virginia setting along US 29 is a travelers retreat for the thirsty at heart. The farm raises it's own plants to bring them to the table while adding the brewery for the finishing touch.
Saco River rolls out of the White Mountains rich with tannic acid from the northern woods and bogs. This is a three shot panoramic image.
The Icans are connected with 30lb fishing line and have a range of about 8 feet.. the Ican2 is improved with a rolled bottom.
Last shot of the day, after security told everyone to leave. This frame was taken in portrait mode with a larger aperture and 0.8 second exposure. A haze filter was used on the shoreline below.