Monthly Archives: October 2009

Ripples in time

25 second exposure taken of the Huntington Creek as it runs under the West Paden Covered Bridge in Fishing Creek Township, Columbia County Pennsylvania. From my Sunday 10-11-2009 trip through Columbia County. I used the Singh-Ray Vari-N-Duo filter to knock down the available light by about five stops.

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Huntington Creek in the Fall

This is the view downstream of Huntington Creek in Fishing Creek Township, Columbia County Pennsylvania as seen through one of the windows in the West Paden Covered Bridge. From my Sunday 10-11-2009 trip through Columbia County. I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames then combined into an HDR and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro...

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Kramer Covered Bridge (Columbia County, PA)

I made my fourth covered bridge trip up to Columbia County on Sunday 10-11-2009, this time hoping for a good amount of Fall foliage around the six bridges that I was targeting. It was sort of odd in that I didn’t find much Fall color changes directly around any of the bridges I stopped at...

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Ground control to Major Tom….

While driving around photographing old Covered Bridges and Fall foliage in Columbia County, Pennsylvania on Sunday 10-11-2009, I stumbled upon this giant satellite dish array. I had no idea this thing existed and it was massive and after having just spent the better part of the day photographing 150 year old bridges, to see something...

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Under the Manassas Guth Covered Bridge (Lehigh County, PA)

This is the underside of the Manassas Guth Bridge which crosses 108 feet over the Jordan creek in Lehigh County Pennsylvania. It is one of several covered bridges that span that creek and one of two located in “Covered Bridge Park”. The bridge was built in 1868 and is currently open to vehicular traffic. I...

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Inca Tern in flight – National Aviary

One of several Inca Terns found at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA. They are in the Wetlands Free-Flight room and based upon several experiences there, if you end up getting “blessed” by birds in that room, it is most likely the Inca Terns doing it. They inhabit coastal land, offshore waters, rivers and marshes...

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What fish see in their nightmares…

Adult Bald Eagle goes into a dive towards the river and his target of fresh fish. Shot over the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Sunday afternoon 10-4-2009. I blended two background textures from the following Flickr members who have graciously allowed us to use their work as background textures. Thanks folks ! Scratched Caramel by...

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