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Bald Eagle / Lake Ontelaunee composite

Time to get my creative hat on. I grabbed a previously un-posted shot I took of an adult Bald Eagle flying over the Susquehanna River in Maryland back on 8-1-2009 and combined it with a sunset shot at Lake Ontelaunee in Pennsylvania I took back on 7-15-2009 to make this composite piece. Lake Ontelaunee does...

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Golden water sunset on Lake Ontelaunee

This was taken close to the dam at water level about nineteen minutes before I took the sunset shot with the fisherman. The fisherman sunset was taken about five hundred feet further down shore. Lake Ontelaunee, Wednesday night 7-15-2009. Single RAW exposure, tripod mounted with Cokin Neutral gray (ND2) and Graduated Tobacco-Grey Pro-Z filters. Lake...

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And the sun bids the wildlife good night…

This was Saturday night’s sunset over Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ. Forsythe was my second refuge of the day after having started my day off at 7:00 AM at Bombay Hook NWR in Smyrna Delaware. I was setting up to do an HDR shot of the setting sun reflecting off the...

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A fisherman’s sunset on Lake Ontelaunee

It was another magical sunset at Lake Ontelaunee tonight (7-15-2009). I shot the sunset from water level this time instead of from the dam and I used my Nikon 24-70mm instead of the wider angle Sigma 10-20mm I used in previous Ontelaunee sunset shots. I was lucky enough to have a late day fisherman take...

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Sometimes you don’t want to share your roller coaster or your sunset with anybody else

I took this before the fireworks display at Dorney Park and Wild Water Kingdom Amusement park on Saturday 7-4-2009. It’s a 2.5 second exposure that had to be timed so that none of the passing cars would get in the shot and luckily the roller coaster, with it’s single passenger, was going uphill very slowly....

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Sunset on Lake Ontelaunee

I don’t think I’ve ever actually shot the sunset before. I’ll have to work on fixing that sun flare issue but I still sort of like how this came out. Lake Ontelaunee is a 1,082 acre reservoir that provides much of the drinking water for the city of Reading Pennsylvania. It’s a favorite fishing spot...

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