Monthly Archives: April 2011

Golden hour in the valley

The setting sun brings with it the golden rays of warm light that bathe this Gensinger Road farm outside of Kutztown, Pennsylvania. I shot this as nine bracketed RAW frames at 1 stop increments and then combined them into an HDR and tone mapped it with HDR Efex Pro from NIK Software. I’m still not...

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Cooper Grist Mill (Chester, NJ)

The Cooper Grist Mill was built in 1826 by Nathan Cooper. It replaced an earlier mill built on the same location in the 1760′s by Isaiah Younglove. Today, visitors to the mill can watch the massive water wheel power shafts and gears that turn 2,000-pound mill stones as the master miller, in period costume, explains...

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“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” — John Lubbock Sometimes the clouds and sun come to an agreement about their respective place in the scheme of things when it comes time for a sunset, and then there are nights like Saturday. Just when...

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Cooper Grist Mill (Chester, NJ)

The Cooper Grist Mill was built in 1826 by Nathan Cooper. It replaced an earlier mill built on the same location in the 1760′s by Isaiah Younglove. Today, visitors to the mill can watch the massive water wheel power shafts and gears that turn 2,000-pound mill stones as the master miller, in period costume, explains...

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Kip’s Castle (Verona, NJ)

From Wikipedia: Kip’s Castle, originally known as “Kypsburg,” was constructed over a three-year period in the early 1900s by Frederic Ellsworth Kip and his wife, Charlotte Bishop Williams Kip. Frederic was a wealthy textile inventor and industrialist who also published several books related to United States tariff laws. Charlotte is credited for the design of...

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Hickory Grove One-Room Schoolhouse (Chester County, PA)

This is the Hickory Grove One-room Schoolhouse in East Vincent Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The schoolhouse was built in 1856. It is believed that the original name was “Brenner’s School” as the property line bordered on lands owned by Mary Brenner and John Yeager. In 1875, the Directors of East Vincent School District sold the...

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