Tag Archives: HDR

Spannuth Mill (Berks County, PA)

This mill, located at the junction of Frystown and Crosskill Creek roads in Bethel Township, was built in 1891 and replaced an earlier mill on the same location that had been built in 1756. A post office established in the mill in 1848 caused the mill & community to be known as “Crosskill Mill” after...

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Chia Truck

I’ve driven past this partially buried dump truck a hundred times on the way to Williams Grove Speedway and never stopped to shoot it. With heavy storms in the Nikon D7000 with a Sigma 10-20mm lens, manual focus, aperture priority mode, exposure bracketing for three brackets @ F11, ISO 100. HDR and tone map post-processing...

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Trexler Stone Bridge (Berks County, PA)

This stone bridge was built in 1841 over the Ontelaunee Creek. It connects Route 143 with Creek Road/Old Philly Pike in Albany Township, Pennsylvania with the tiny Trexler Historic District which includes the Albany Township Historic Society Museum. The bridge, along with the entire Trexler Historic District, are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the age of iron and wood…

I went down to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania on Sunday to try some new things. I knew they were undergoing construction on a new geothermal heating and cooling system and that there would be a few things that would be cordoned off but when I got there I found that most of the locomotives...

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Stillwater Schoolhouse (Columbia County, PA)

This is the renovated one room school house in the tiny village of Stillwater Pennsylvania which resides along route 487 in Columbia County Pennsylvania. The school house was renovated and re-sided within the last few years. It is located right next to the Stillwater Covered Bridge. According to the year 2000 census, the population of...

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Education evolved into farm life

This is the old one-room schoolhouse in Perry Township, Berks County, PA. The farmer who currently owns it uses the property to store many of his farm implements and tractors. I got lucky on late Sunday afternoon when I went to shoot it and found that the farmer had parked his John Deere 4430 tractor...

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Old barn in Stillwater (Columbia County, PA)

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...

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