Simple Clicks – pink sunset
Admission time – I did some color adjustment to these photos. The sunset itself did have a soft pink quality to it, which didn’t quite come through in the original digital files. So while in ACR I went into the toning tab and added some pink to the highlights. I even pushed it farther than [...]
Simple Clicks – on the river
Monday evening, 6 May, became my first river outing in the new kayak. I put in at Falls, PA, and paddled three miles up the Susquehanna River to a point where a large island divided the river. The division caused the current to intensify to the point where I just could’t paddle through it; besides [...]
Fresh snowfall
Sunday morning finally gave me an actual, cloud-free sunrise, coupled with maybe a half-inch of fresh snow – perfect conditions to get out and shake off some of the cobwebs that keep building during these seemingly endless stretches of cold, bland weather. Related Posts:Starting the New Year in VermontSimple Clicks – 26 June 2010Simple Clicks [...]
Winter, unexpectedly – panoramas
While shooting my unexpected winter landscapes at Promised Land State Park, I made a few panoramas as well. No surprise there. And several of them came out well – I’m very pleased with them, perhaps even more so than the single-frame images, which just don’t capture the feel of this morning the same way. This [...]
Simple Clicks – perfect sunrise
When I saw this image appear on my computer screen, I instantly loved it. It’s a quiet, simple photo and, as sunrises go, it’s pretty low-key. No flashy light, no stunning clouds. Just an incredibly blue sky and the first blush of light on the hilltop. But I still love it, I guess because of [...]
Best of 2012
These are my favorite images from the past year. Some are simple, others more complex; most have been seen on here before. It’s easy to forget about good shots from a few months ago, and fulfilling to go back and look through tagged images to re-discover them. Pulling this collection together, I feel better about [...]
Morning at Kent Pond
Back to Kent Pond two mornings after my first visit, this time with a mind to shoot the pond itself against the backdrop of the Green Mountains – which were looking a bit more brown this particular morning, being sadly free of snow. But the sunrise was decent and the rising light side-lit Pico Mountain [...]
Searching for autumn
Autumn, as a season and as the elements that make it up, is fleeting. Transitory, arriving with subtly until suddenly you realize it’s really here, and then just a couple of weeks later it’s passed, always fading out faster than you remember. Then the hillsides are brown and it’s simply winter, or pre-winter, or whatever [...]
Central PA – Day 2
The Weather Channel girl struck out again on day two, when she called for 34% cloud cover at sunrise. I dragged myself out in to a the cold, damp morning while it was still dark out and, after a few photos of the Inn itself, began scouting for a sunrise vista across the lake. Without [...]
First Frost
NEPA got hit with its first hard frost last Friday night. We knew it was coming; there were warnings on the radio and a general sense that yes, it was time. Mid-October rarely passes without the first hard chill of the season. But for all the concern over the first frost, it is a strangely ethereal event. [...]
