Monthly Archives: October 2009

Ghosts in the station ?

One of the hazards of shooting multi bracketed shots like I do for HDR images is that any movement between each shot introduces the chance for ghostly apparitions, especially with people and cars. Knowing this, I actually shot these seven shots with the intention of seeing how ghostly I could make the other museum visitors...

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Sometimes it’s all about the reach

A Great Blue Heron uses it’s long neck to reach out towards a fish in the water in front of him. From my 8-1-2009 trip to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Smyrna, Delaware. For more information on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at http://www.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/. For more information on Great...

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Inside the Meems Bottom Covered Bridge (Mount Jackson, Virginia)

This Shenandoah County Virginia bridge is named for the Meem family that owned the Strathmore estate west of the Shenandoah River. The bridge runs 204 feet over the North Fork of the Shenandoah River and utilizes a Burr-Arch design. The original bridge was built in 1892-1893 and was torched by vandals on Halloween of 1976....

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Wade’s Mill – Raphine, Virginia

Wade’s Mill is a working flour mill built around 1750 by Captain Joseph Kennedy. It is located in Raphine, Virginia. Captain Kennedy was a Scotsman who was one of the earlier settlers in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He settled in the area between Staunton and Lexington Virginia. This was the frontier of the United...

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An Eagle with a mission

An adult Bald Eagle soars over our heads along the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Sunday 10-25-2009. Whenever an Eagle has a fish or spots another Eagle who has a fish, you can be sure that food is the motivating factor when they really pick up speed and fly in a completely straight line directly...

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Young in flight

A juvenile Bald Eagle soars over the Susquehanna River in Maryland on 10-4-2009. For more information on Bald Eagles, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.

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Standing the test of time

Located on the Northwest corner of Byerland Road and Township Road 492 in Pequea, Pennsylvania you will see what looks to be a little log cabin. This is actually Byerland Mennonite Meeting House. the oldest known Mennonite meeting house still standing in the United States. It was built by Jacob Boehm, between 1747 and 1755,...

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