Monthly Archives: June 2009

Flight of the Osprey – Edwin B. Forsythe NWR

An Osprey banks during a flight back to its nest. From my 6-13-2009 trip to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ. For more information on Osprey, visit the Cornell Lab Of Ornithology. For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at www.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.

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Farmington Barn and Pasture

Another of the barns I found in the tiny hamlet of Farmington, PA in Berks County. I like the pasture that surrounds this structure giving it some balance to the red wood of the barn. I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally,...

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Barnagat Lighthouse, looming over the trees

Barnagat Lighthouse (A.K.A. “Old Barney”), Barnagat Lighthouse State Park, located on the northern tip of Long Beach Island in New Jersey. At 172 feet, it is the fourth tallest lighthouse in the United States. I had Wednesday afternoon off from work so I decided to go find this sunflower farm in Harleysville, PA because I...

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Horses on a lazy Summer afternoon

I was out driving around randomly in the middle of nowhere after work today just looking for interesting things to photograph when I came upon this farm called “Skyline Stables” near Alburtis, PA. I couldn’t pass up the chance to photograph these beautiful horses in the magic hour light of the setting sun. Apparently Skyline...

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Mertztown Station of the Reading Railroad

This is the old Mertztown Train Station located on Chestnut Street in Mertztown, PA. It was built in 1895 and served patrons of the former Reading Railroad. The station was closed by the Reading Railroad Company in 1964. The Mertztown station is now owned by Atlas Minerals and Chemicals, which is the industry located adjacent...

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Sunset on Lake Ontelaunee

I shot this sunset tonight from the bridge that runs over the dam at Lake Ontelaunee in Berks County, PA. Single Exposure, tripod mounted with Cokin Graduated Sunset-2, Neutral gray and Graduated Tobacco-Grey Pro-Z filters. Lake Ontelaunee is a 1,082 acre reservoir that provides much of the drinking water for the city of Reading Pennsylvania....

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Side view within National Cathedral

Going back through my archives, I picked this shot out from my 2-7-2009 trip to the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. This is a perspective from the left side of the church looking up and across to the right side. For more information on the National Cathedral, visit their web site at www.nationalcathedral.org/ I shot...

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