Cloudsourcing
“Cloudsourcing” is a term that applies to the high-tech/Intertet industry’s efforts to get you to put all of your information “in the cloud,” where you can presumably get to it from anywhere and on any machine. It’s a little problematic if you are somewhere without Internet access and, well, if you can get it, maybe others [...]
Prehatin Farm
This story is almost too improbable to believe, but here it is… One Saturday a month or so ago, Phil and I are headed out for one of our road trips, but first we stop in to Vgoh Custom Framing so he can pick up a print he’s had framed. We’re in there for a [...]
Greening Up
Spring is arriving in the woods of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The is evident in the broad view (Lookit all that green!) as well as the close up view of new life emerging from the ground. Look up and see it against the sky. Look down and see it in small ways. Look not only for green, [...]
Late Afternoon in the Woods
The part of the latest walk in the woods that was not included in the milkweed extravaganza was pretty nice too. The forsythia is still resplendent, and I encountered no bears. The light was beautiful. Life is good. ps: There are several panoramic images in this collection, which are much improved by viewing the show [...]
Milkweed Again
Longtime recipients of my visual excursions may be aware of my fascination with the lowly milkweed plant - Asclepias syriaca. While I am unable to resist the photogenic qualities, I am also in awe of its design in an evolutionary sense. I wonder if nature has created a more perfect example of a living thing engineered [...]
Early Spring Walk in the Woods
Sitting on my front porch watching a thunderstorm approach, I never imagined that the day would turn out nice. Having finished the daily puzzles, I decided to pay the taxes and go to my favorite lunch spot (Something Special, in Kingston). By the time I returned home, it was a wonderful warm day with nice [...]
Soggy Day
While I’m no fan of snow, one thing I miss is taking pictures of it. I went for a little walk in the woods yesterday. It was soggy. ‘Nuff said.
Leaves and Ice
Philadelphia has the Flower Show, New York has the Boat Show, Vegas has the Consumer Electronics Show, but Harveys Lake, PA has the one and only Leaves and Ice Extravaganza! Most people, when they see an icy stream running through a forest, may think “pretty,” but if they’d just look a little closer, they’d be [...]
January Woods
Normally, by this time of the year, there would be snow on the ground and too cold for a long walk. But today I found myself with an unoccupied afternoon, the temperature pushing fifty, and pretty nice light, so off I went. I consider myself doubly blessed by the fact that one of my favorite [...]
Door Frost
Things change quickly in January. Just the other day I was spending a nice afternoon shooting along a river in 50-something-degree sunlight. Today when I got up, I noticed the front door was pretty much covered in frost. The last vestige of it remained after my daily rounds and I noticed the sunlight coming through [...]
Autumn 2011
This is a compilation of several drives and walks that took place over the last few weeks. On reviewing the images, it occurred to me that the perspectives of the best images ranged from the far distant to the intimate close-up, so I arranged them in that order. A subtitle for this collection might, therefore, [...]
Foggy Morning
The first thing I do, pretty much every morning, is go down to get the newspaper. Sometimes I get distracted. When the temperature drops over night, the warmer water releases itself into the air as fog. This morning, the fog and sunlight made for a nice atmosphere in which to start the day.
A Short Evening with Franz Kline
Franz Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Sitting on the dock for a bit tonight, I was reminded of him. If you’re not familiar with his work and wonder at my title, this link [...]
Love in the Wild
The devastation caused by the winds of TS Irene on the hill where I go walking is terrible. I have been struggling a bit as to how it might be depicted, but it’s a stubborn subject. Today I took a walk up there with something different in mind, prompted by yesterday’s haul of some brush [...]
Late Summer Evening
After what seems like a month of rain in this very wet summer, and being inundated (so to speak) with all of the news about the flood, curfews, impassible roads, I thought to grasp at a sense of normalcy and spent the evening on my neighbor’s dock. Mine is still under water, but things are [...]
Hi, Water
Harveys Lake’s shoreline is a bit over eight miles long, almost all of which is vulnerable to run-off from the hills that surround the lake. When it rains, the whole, fully-saturated watershed runs into the lake, as illustrated by the first image in the slide show. I took about a half-mile walk today and saw [...]
Irene Goodnight
I frequently document approaching storms as they come in from the west across the lake, but I don’t recall that I’ve ever captured one that’s departing. I had been outside late Sunday afternoon surveying the impact of the wind and rain, and I happened to look to the west and saw the approaching calm. I [...]
Watercolors
I was never much of an artist in terms of drawing or painting, but I can recognize it when I see it. This is a blessing, for it is all around us, if only we’d notice. It occurred to me not long ago that, looking at the water, you can see in it every color [...]
Just an Old Stump
I grew up down the road a ways, and my old neighbors still spend time at their big old place with their extended families. It’s nice, because when they’re in town, they sort of adopt me and I don’t have to cook for as long as they’re around. It doesn’t hurt that I really enjoy [...]
August 1st Sky
One nice thing about the skies over Harveys Lake in the evening – if you don’t like tonight’s, it will be different tomorrow. Having said that, the cloud formations on this night, backlit by the setting sun, were pretty spectacular. I call the first shot “Close Encounters” because it evokes the scene from the movie [...]
Sky Fragments
You can’t always tell when it’s going to be a great night for shooting the sky. I have learned that early potential often fades into the blahs. (That’s a technical term for boring sunsets.) Nonetheless, tonight started off rather nicely and it just kept getting better. it wasn’t just the sunset – it was all [...]
Scoping Things Out
As darkness fell last night, I decided to take my telescope out to the dock and explore the heavens a bit. I’ve always been fascinated with telescopes, ever since my dad brought home an old Bausch and Lomb when I was about ten years old. When I first saw the moon through the scope, I [...]
Taking Flight
I had the rare opportunity to trade a photo-shoot of the Briggs Farm Blues Festival for some free flight time over some of my favorite territory in Northeastern PA – including locations which I customarily shoot at ground level (literally). In this brief show, you’ll see the half-demolished 8th Street Bridge, the Berwick nuclear power [...]