Monthly Archives: July 2011 I have wanted to shoot this old barn on route 487 in Stillwater Township, Columbia County, PA for a few years now. I was waiting for some interesting sky or cloud formations. Today was the day. Nikon D300 with a Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 AFS lens, manual focus, aperture priority mode, exposure bracketing for five brackets...  My Sister’s birthday was today and I set a goal of getting a nice portrait of my Grandmother while at the family gathering. I had posted on a previous portrait I did of her that she is 86 but she corrected me. She is 88 years young. When they made my Grandmother, they broke the...  I’ve been trying to find a well populated field of sunflowers for about the last three years. Every time I got a tip on a field I would drive upwards of 150 miles away only to arrive to a field of wilted plants or even worse, finding out that the farmer did indeed plant sunflowers...  This Amish Farmer in Strasburg, PA uses the traditional horse drawn plowing method to till his field, but with a twist. His two Sons ride on the front to provide extra weight for the plow blade and as the horses move the plow every foot and a half or so, they quickly plant a new...  A campfire scene from the Union encampment during the annual Civil Ware Re-Enactment at Pennypacker Mills in Schwenksville, PA on Sunday 6-5-2011. Strobist info: Nikon SB-900 in TTL mode in a Westcott 46″ shoot through umbrella camera right triggered via Pocket Wizard Mini-TT1 transmitter on camera and Flex-TT5 transceiver on the flash. . ...  This is Bucher’s Mill Covered Bridge, A.K.A. “Cocalico #2 Bridge”. The bridge spans the Cocalico Creek and is located on Cacalico Creek Road (T-955), near Reamstown, East Cacalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A marker etching on the inside of the bridge lists the span length at 64 feet but the Lancaster County Government Web Site...  For more information on Green Frogs, visit this page. Shot in the backyard pond over at my parent’s house with my Sigma 50-500mm lens. It’s the lens I use for most of my bird shots but it works out suprisingly well for close up shots like this from about eight feet away. Manual focus using... |
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