Monthly Archives: October 2010

His and Hers

Separate outhouses for women and men behind the Methodist Episcopal Church at Millbrook Village. For more information on visiting Millbrook Village, please visit their web site at www.millbrooknj.com/. I shot this as nine bracketed RAW frames at .7 stop increments and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image....

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Autumn at Kern’s Mill (Lehigh County, PA)

The Kern’s Mill was built in 1806 by Peter Kern. The mill is 3 1/2 stories tall and occupies about a 40′ by 50′ footprint. The two archways visible in the photo are the tail race where the water exited the mill. The head race where the water was taken into the mill is located...

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Albany One-Room Schoolhouse (Berks County, PA)

On November 1st, 2006 Robert J. Woltersdorf, the owner of this Albany Township one-room schoolhouse, was killed by smoke inhalation from a fire that broke out in the building which he had converted into a residence. I’ve been wanting to shoot this particular one-room schoolhouse for a while after finding it during research on the Internet...

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My soul is in the sky. –William Shakespeare

An adult Bald Eagle soars over the Susquehanna River in Maryland on Saturday 10-23-2010. For more information on Bald Eagles, visit the Cornelll Lab Of Ornithology.

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Moselem One-Room Schoolhouse (Berks County, PA)

I stumbled upon this historic one-room schoolhouse while doing some research last night. The school was built around 1905 and closed in 1955. It sits across the street from the Zion Moselem Lutheran Church in Richmond Township. It’s in great shape and features intricate gable detail on all four sides and the front porch area,...

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…you may tell yourself, “This is not my beautiful house”…

I often have songs pop into my head while photographing. While photographing Fonthill Mansion in Doylestown, PA, the song was the Talking Head’s “Once in a lifetime”. Fonthill was the home of the American archaeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and...

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Valerie’s Tree – Autumn 2010

My parent’s neighbor has this tree that has really shown great Autumn color for about the last ten years. I decided to go over and shoot it on Wednesday after work. There was just a little too much wind and movement in parts of the tree for my liking but we were losing the magic...

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