Monthly Archives: September 2010

Siegfried Railroad Station (Northampton County, PA)

This train station was once a stop on the Central New Jersey Railroad. It was built in the 1880s. The building currently serves as the home of the Northampton Area Historical Society. It was refurbished in the late 1970s and early 1980s by society members with the help of Vo-Tech students. The Siegfried Station name...

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Beavertown Covered Bridge (Snyder County, PA)

The Beavertown Covered Bridge, also known as “Dreese’s Bridge” was built in 1870. It spans the Middle Creek for a length of 95 feet. The bridge uses a Burr Arch design with multiple king posts and is in excellent condition. A modern bridge bypasses traffic from the covered bridge. I shot this as seven bracketed...

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Fishing Trawler under angry skies

A fishing trawler passes by the jetty at Barnagat Light on Long Beach Island in New Jersey back on 6-24-2009.

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“Much water goeth by the mill That the miller knoweth not of” – Proverb

They had an art club visiting the Bromley Mill when I got there on Saturday. About a dozen artists of varying abilities were painting versions of the mill and surrounding buildings. It was sort of neat to see the variance in the work they were creating. This mill is located on the Cuttalossa Creek in...

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The wind giveth, the wind taketh away…

This is the Volendam Windmill in Holland Township, a suburb of Milford New Jersey. This authentic model of a wind-driven mill used for grinding raw grain into flour, was designed and built over a ten year period starting in 1965 by the late Paul Jorgenson and his wife, both natives of Denmark. The mill is...

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Lenhartsville One-Room Schoolhouse

Nineteenth century historic one-room schoolhouse on route 143 in Lenhartsville, PA. This building is in excellent shape and currently used as a borough hall. I shot this as seven RAW exposures at .7 stop variance and combined them into an HDR and tone mapped it using Photomatix Pro 4.0 beta. Original

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Reaching for lunch

A juvenile Bald Eagle reaches down into the water and grabs a fish for lunch. I shot this over the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Labor Day 9-6-2010. It’s a pretty heavy crop in bad light but I think it’s still worth posting because of the action. For more information on Bald Eagles, visit the Cornelll...

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