Monthly Archives: July 2009

Got fish ?

Great Blue Heron raises his head from the task of fishing and notices me. We had quite the staring contest going on for several minutes. He eventually gave in and went back to fishing. From my trip to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ on 7-11-2009. For more information on Great...

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Stop, Listen, Look

Railroad crossing sign at the old WK&S Train Station in the small village of Wanamaker, PA. I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames then combined them into an HDR and tone mapped them in Photomatix Pro.

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A tale of two Egrets

On the way back from the Gull Pond area and back towards the wildlife drive, I saw several Great Egrets sitting in a tree on the corner of the Gull Pond. I stopped and setup my tripod in an area with just barely enough room to see between the trees. Two of the Egrets were...

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Barn at Bear Creek Mountain Ski Resort

I’ve wanted to shoot this barn for quite a while. I pass this on the way to and from work each day and in the evening, the magic hour sun does wonderful things to the stone texture of the barn. I also like the maroon wood instead of the traditional red or white treatments on...

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A fisherman’s sunset on Lake Ontelaunee

It was another magical sunset at Lake Ontelaunee tonight (7-15-2009). I shot the sunset from water level this time instead of from the dam and I used my Nikon 24-70mm instead of the wider angle Sigma 10-20mm I used in previous Ontelaunee sunset shots. I was lucky enough to have a late day fisherman take...

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Great Blue Heron coming in for a landing @ Bombay Hook NWR

One of the 2 Great Blue Heron that were sharing the Raymond Pool with 56 Great Egrets comes in for a landing. There was some tall marsh grass in the way as you can see in the bottom of the frame. From my Monday 7-6-2009 trip to the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of...

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Who’s left to trust when all they leave you with is rust ?

Billy Joel may not be able to tell the difference between the Pennsylvania towns of Bethlehem and Allentown but those who work and/or live in the Lehigh Valley certainly know which plant the song refers to. Steel customers wanted cheaper foreign steel. Unions wanted wages and benefits the company couldn’t afford. In the end, everybody...

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