Monthly Archives: March 2011

Bringing back traditions from the past…

This Mail Pouch Tobacco sign is on the barn of a small Elizabeth Township Lancaster County farm owned by Larry Hess, a retired school teacher. He and Doug Blevins, a York sign painter, recently restored the original sign. Hess paid the bill. “It’s the only old barn in Lancaster County with an original Mail Pouch...

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Josiah Hess Covered Bridge (Columbia County, PA)

This beautiful bridge spans the Huntington Creek in Columbia County Pennsylvania. Built in 1875 by Joseph Redline, it has a Burr Arch truss design and is 110 feet in length. It was recently completely refurbished and is in excellent condition. It is not open to foot traffic and has picnic tables inside where people can...

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Kingston hated waiting for the bus

The worst part of being reliant on the public transportation systems, thought Kingston, was the inability to do anything about when they are late. All the watch glancing in the world wasn’t going to make the confounded bus arrive any sooner. But he also knew the actual bus’s arrival would bring with it its own...

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“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.” ~William Wordsworth

I recently upgraded from version 1 to version 2 of NIK Silver Efex Pro which I use heavily for many of my black and white work. I needed something to use to really kick it’s tires so I dug up and converted this sunset image from June of 2009 that I shot at Lake Ontelaunee...

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Pastoral contours

This was an Amish farm somewhere in the south east corner of Lancaster County, PA that I stumbled across while out photographing Covered Bridges back in April of 2010. I liked all the contours and the cows and barns. Single exposure. I blended several background textures from the commercially available texture packs from Distressed Textures to...

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Dwarfed

This American Sycamore tree found at the Mill at Anselma is listed in the big tree database athttp://www.pabigtrees.com as being 120.4 feet tall with a spread of 117 feet. It dwarfs the stone Spring House below, giving it ample shade in the Spring and Summer which is why the Spring House was built there. Back...

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Working the fields

This is a different Northern Harrier than the previous one I posted. We caught this one working the marsh grasses on the back end of the wildlife drive, looking for prey. A second one soon joined in the hunt in roughly the same area. I applied a texture layer from DarkWoods67 called “Autumn into Summer”...

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