Monthly Archives: July 2009

New Ringgold barn rising up from the corn

This is very large barn near the town of New Ringgold, Pennsylvania on the corner of Lizard Creek Road and Route 309. The crossroads area where it sits is actually labeled “Snyder’s” but it is such a small community that no census data was found for it. In the 2000 year census, New Ringgold had...

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Here’s dinner, see you guys later…

Father Osprey drops a catfish onto the nest and continues on his way. I don’t think he wanted to get involved with this squabble going on between junior on the left and Mom Osprey in the middle. They seemed to be having a pretty heated disagreement. I heard something about not getting any desert until...

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Colemanville Covered Bridge (Lancaster County)

This bridge has also gone by the names “Martic Forge Covered Bridge” and “Pequea #12 Bridge” during its history. The bridge features a single span, wooden, double Burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. It spans the Pequea Creek at 155 feet in length, is open to daily vehicular traffic and...

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Railroad bridges in Columbia County

These two railroad bridges stand over the Fishing Creek in Columbia County Pennsylvania and are located right next to Rupert’s Covered Bridge. I shot this back on 5-16-2009 as five bracketed RAW frames and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image to create the final product. Unfortunately...

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Golden water sunset on Lake Ontelaunee

This was taken close to the dam at water level about nineteen minutes before I took the sunset shot with the fisherman. The fisherman sunset was taken about five hundred feet further down shore. Lake Ontelaunee, Wednesday night 7-15-2009. Single RAW exposure, tripod mounted with Cokin Neutral gray (ND2) and Graduated Tobacco-Grey Pro-Z filters. Lake...

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Stillwater School House – Columbia County

This is the renovated one room school house in the tiny village of Stillwater Pennsylvania which resides along route 487 in Columbia County. The school house must have been renovated and re-sided within the last few years because I found photos of it from 2-25-2005 on Wikipedia that shows it in pretty deteriorated condition. It...

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And the sun bids the wildlife good night…

This was Saturday night’s sunset over Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ. Forsythe was my second refuge of the day after having started my day off at 7:00 AM at Bombay Hook NWR in Smyrna Delaware. I was setting up to do an HDR shot of the setting sun reflecting off the...

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