Seagull at Sunset

  My Nikon D200 and I captured this seagull on my way to Mt. Washington a couple of weeks ago.  The sky was grey, and I decided that he (or she) would look considerably better against a colorful sky.  Hence, I went back to a sunset I had taken a couple of years ago, and did a [...]

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Lunar Eclipse Collage

  February 20, 2008 was a clear, frigid night.  I set up my tripod at about 9:15 p.m. and made my first exposures at about 9:35 p.m.  I had my Nikon D200 set on remote control, and I remember that my hands kept freezing up as I removed my warm gloves to press the shutter release repeatedly.  I took [...]

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Visitors Center

  These men, dressed as Confederate soldiers, were at the dedication of the Gettysburg Visitors Center.  The photo was taken in color (Panasonic Lumix TZ5, f 8.0, 1/250) but converted to Sepia in Picassa 2.0, and edited in Photoshop Elements 6.0.  Though this was a posed shot, at my request, it seemed–nevetheless–that the expression on [...]

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Union Soldiers–A Re-enactment

  These men gathered, in authentic Civil War Union attire, at the new Gettysburg Memorial Visitor’s Center in Pennsylvania.  They demonstrated military formations and mock-firing of weapons.  Gettysburg was amazing—the brand-new museum (visitor’s center) as well as the battlefield tour, which I did with the aid of an audio CD and a map.  I posted this in honor [...]

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Gettysburg Cemetery–In Honor of Our Veterans

  I like the juxtaposition here of the cannon and the cemetery—cause and effect.  This is the cemetery in which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address:  “…that these dead shall not have died in vain, and that Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.” (Panasonic [...]

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Princess and the Pumpkin

  For those of us who love cats, I wanted to post this seasonal photo of our Princess, getting ready for Thanksgiving.  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!   (Sony Cybershot, 5.0 megapixels, other info. not saved)

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Our Princess

Our Princess is now seven years old.  When we make a fire in the fireplace (usually with a store-bought manufactured log) she loves to watch the flames.  After taking a series of photos, I discovered this picture, in which the flames take on a rather curious shape…..  I did not retouch those flames at all; [...]

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Mt. Washington in New Hampshire

Another photo from last weekend’s trip to Mt. Washington.  We planned to climb the mountain via the auto road and earn a “This Car Climbed Mt. Washington” bumper sticker, but–alas–the road was closed two weeks earlier because of snow near the summit.  Still, I got several nice shots just from the scenic outlook.   For non-New Englanders, [...]

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Foliage in Keene, New Hampshire

  I took this photo with my Nikon D70 a couple of years ago when my wife, son, and I went on a foliage trip from northern Massachusetts to New Hampshire, through Vermont, through a small part of NY state and back to Massachusetts along the Mohawk Trail.  We hit some absolutely magnificent foliage throughout our [...]

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Cathedral Ledge in New Hampshire’s White Mountains

  My son and I took a father-son 3-day weekend in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  On the final day, we learned about this place, Cathedral Ledge.  It was absolutely gorgeous, and only a 200-yard hike after climbing 5-10 minutes with our car.

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