Archbald Regional Park
It’s funny how you can live in an area for years, know the side roads and shortcuts, and yet still continue to find new places that you never knew existed. Last week I found an entire park that I didn’t know about, just 15 minutes up the valley. Acres of fields and woods, several ponds, [...]
Wildwood – Some casual birding
Since I can’t go anywhere without chasing critters these days, there was birding time built into our weekend getaway to Wildwood. In all my past visits to the beach (in my pre-birding days), I clearly remember seeing flocks of gulls and plovers, and usually the patrolling lines of pelicans. Well, there were no pelicans this [...]
Wildwood – At the beach
Just back from a weekend trip to (drumroll, please…) – New Jersey! And yes, it was definitely better than it sounds so far. Mandy and I took a few days away from everything and drove down to Wildwood, where we stayed in an Airstream trailer, spent some time on the beach, and played tourist. The [...]
Parade Day, Scranton
Parade Day has come and gone and, for the first time since living in Scranton, I can actually say that I was right there in the thick of it. I like parades. I mean honestly, who doesn’t? This was something else entirely, however. This was the big kahuna of parades, the parade to end all [...]
Winter in PA – Another Perspective
Now that winter weather has indeed finally arrived, as Brent so aptly noted, it brought with it some great photo opportunities this past week. Here’s my perspective on the photo trip Brent and I took earlier this week. First of all, sunrise. The winter sun may rise later than in summer, but I’m thinking I’ll [...]
Finally Winter in PA
It’s finally winter in PA. Well, mostly – Scranton is fairly snow-less, but the hills have a couple of inches, the temperatures are down, and more snow is on the way for the weekend. Got out to enjoy it for a while this past weekend, or at least as much as you can enjoy a [...]
Starting the New Year in Vermont, Pt. 2
This is a photo I’ve wanted to get for years now, the Marble Church in Proctor at sunrise. Tucked into the base of the mountain, it takes several hours from sunrise for the light to fill the valley and finally hit the church, so there’s a long period of amazing back lighting. Yet the white [...]
Starting the New Year in Vermont
I started the New Year off in the best way: on vacation with family. Of course, being a photographer, that meant that while everyone else was warm in bed, sleeping late, I was out at sunrise freezing my backside off on the side of a frozen lake. While the sun slipped down the side of [...]
Best of 2011
Another year has passed, another trip around the sun, and another few thousand photos taken. It’d be cliche to make any grand, sweeping statements about the year; there were highs and lows, amazing moments captured and others missed, lessons learned and re-learned. Looking back through my favorite images, there are some good memories. There’s also [...]
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
I’ll be heading to Vermont for a few days later this winter and am already putting together a list of the things I want to accomplish while I’m there. Actually, that’s a pretty generous way of putting it, saying “accomplish” as if I’ll actually be able to plan for success. But however you say it, [...]
