Tag Archives: landscape

Day is done, gone the sun…

A view of the stone bridge and barn at Gring’s Mill along the Tulpehocken Creek near Reading, PA. The mill was built by David Gring in 1811. The Miller’s house was built in 1831. The barn seen in this shot was built in 1896. Today Gring’s Mill is a park and recreation area and the...

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Witnesses to Agriculture

Sometimes watching grass grow is just what you want to do. At least until the next train comes along and blocks your view. I shot this from the hillside along the parking lot of the Red Caboose Motel and Gift Shop on Paradise Lane in Strasburg in Lancaster County, PA. Single exposure with Sigma 10mm...

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On this Thanksgiving holiday, I am thankful for…Farmers !

Farming is a thankless job requiring more hours than a human should be allowed to work, for little pay and little respect. Very few people think about the local family farmer until there is a shortage of some sort of food or meat product or some recall you hear about on CNN. If it weren’t...

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East Hanover Park (Dauphin County, PA)

I was in East Hanover Park to shoot the Gingrich’s One-Room Schoolhouse on Saturday and I saw that they had this cool wooden bridge and weeping willow trees around it. A lot of community park’s idea of park layout means throwing up some swings and monkey bars and maybe a sliding board and a few...

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Quiet country pond outside of Kutztown, PA

I went looking for fall color and quiet ponds back on 10-24-2010 and I found this little pond near a horse farm on Hottenstein Road northwest of Kutztown, PA. It seemed like the kind of a place that you could sit and read a book without a care in the world. I shot this as...

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Pocono Autumn

I was driving around Saylorsburg, PA this afternoon photographing historic one-room schoolhouses and I passed by this long pond on Route 715 and noticed the clouds soaring low over it so I pulled off to the side and decided to shoot it. There was just a little too much breeze to make a good reflection...

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Golden hour in the Oley Valley

After an afternoon storm passed through the Oley Valley, the sun made a return and bathed this Hoch Road farm in golden light before setting. I shot this last year on 7-29-2009 and had posted a different shot of this farm previously but I wanted to do a version that was a little less heavy...

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