Monthly Archives: September 2010 The Neff’s One-Room Schoolhouse is on Bastian Road between Kutztown and Lyons Station, PA. It was used up until 1955. It was set to be torn down when William Fox bought the property and renovated it. It is his hobby to trim and prune the trees and bushes into unusual shapes as witnessed by his...  I know prisons are built as a deterrent but whoever decided it was a good idea to place these giant Gargoyles over the entrance way to the Eastern State Penitentiary was certainly a sadistic S.O.B. For information on visiting and touring ESP, visit their web site at www.easternstate.org. I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames...  A doorway to who knows what at Eastern State Penitentiary. The prison is so broken and lopsided at this spot that it is hard to tell what is actually off, the door, the floor, the wall… On this particular trip to ESP, my goal was to find great sources of texture and contrast and I...  I wanted to shoot this abandoned diner in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey for a while now. Sunday provided the low ominous cloud ceiling I was looking for so I went for it. The effect of turning the neon sign on again is not a new one and has been used with this diner in other shots...  This is a stairway of one of the closed off cell blocks at Eastern State Penitentiary. I shot this through a series of locked bars. Luckily the Sigma 10-20mm fit in between. The cats on the stairs and the ground are part of an art installation at the prison called “Ghost Cats” by artist Linda...  This mill was built around 1826 by Alexander & Deborah Wallace. Mr Wallace passed on in 1861 and the mill ownership transferred to his two daughters, Mary A. & Eleanore D. Wallace. The Wallace daughters ran the mill, even after Mary lost an arm in some of the machinery. They finally decide the mill work...  The setting sun falls slowly behind a Berks County barn adorned with traditional Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs. I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames at 1 stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro 4.0 beta 10 and finally, tone mapped that image. |
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