I discovered an abandoned factory building in Bridgeport, CT, that offered some good opportunities for HDR photography and playing around with various filters.
Here are a few more shots – click on any one of them to see them in slideshow format.
I enjoyed the challenge of taking pictures of the memorials on Washington, DC’s Mall that are different from the millions of pictures taken there every day.
Washington Monument, from Lincoln Memorial
Click on any picture to start the slide show.
Captured on Hammonasset Beach in Connecticut, as they fluttered around a gentleman passing out breadcrumbs.
Canon Powershot G12
ISO 100
f/4.5
1/200 sec
Adjusted with Nik Color Efex
Found a few interesting shots even in such humdrum environment as a small regional airport. These were taken in Eugene, OR:
iphone Hipstamatic
Caught in Salt Lake City airport bar. Where true cowboys still roam (Utah, that is, NOT the airport).
Hammonasset Beach in Connecticut is covered in these shells. Finding a spot where they take up the entire viewfinder wasn’t difficult. Deciding whether I like the color or b&w version better was tough.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 100
f.8
1/100 sec
I was on just a quick visit to San Francisco last week, but it was still worthy of a few pictures. The first 3 are at the Wells Fargo Museum:
A promotion on Union Square, with lots of pretty girls handing out balloons. Caught them during their photo shoot:
Old-fashioned barber shop on Valencia Street:
All shot with iPhone, Hipstamatic app
These were taken along the Pintler Veterans Memorial Scenic Highway in Montana, connecting Anaconda and Phillipsburg:
Canon Powershot G12
I pass this gazebo every time I walk our dog through the woods of Vermont. Finally I’ve taken a picture of it that I like:
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/100 sec
Another shot from the pow wow I attended in Montana, near Little Bighorn Battleground:
Canon EOS 7D, EF 70-200mm
ISO 100
f/9
1/400 sec
B&W adjustment in Nik Silver Efex
We didn’t get as much as snow as CT (32 inches/80cm!), but still got nice fluffy snow that blanketed everything:
I photographed this gentleman at an Indian pow wow near Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana:
Canon EOS 7D, EF 70-200mm
ISO 100
165mm
f/9
1/25 sec
B&W conversion in Nik Silver Efex
Mt. Zion Cemetery in Long Island, New York, overlooked by an industrial plant and flanked by a highway overpass:
Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, shaded by giant chestnut trees:
Playing around with HDR and B&W effects:
Visions of Vermont snow are always on my mind these days:
iphone Hipstamatic
lens: Tinto 1884
film: Claunch 72 Monochrome
I didn’t taste it, but it looked exquisite to me:
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm
ISO 100
50mm
f/2.8
1/800 sec
From an earlier vacation to Vermont – Glen Moss Falls near Stowe.
Canon Powershot G12
ISO 100
f/8
1.0 sec
The frosted forests of Vermont would have made the perfect setting for the ice princess in the Chronicles of Narnia.
All photos taken with iPhone Hipstamatic
…otherwise he would have dropped his universe right on top of me (I know, bad pun. And I haven’t even read the book). This is a sculpture in front of Rockefeller Center in New York City.
Canon EOS 7D, 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
ISO 400
f/4.5
.3 sec
I discovered these ice formations during a walk through the Vermont woods yesterday morning:
I shot these while walking our dog on a crisp morning. Even in black&white, nature is gorgeous:
Canon EOS 7D, 24-7omm EF f/2.8, B&W conversion with SilverEfex
Even in the cold, wet weather, the local beach provides some good photo opportunities – you just have to get close to your subject.
All shot with iPhone, edited with Snapseed
Despite the cold weather, Times Square is teeming with tourists during the holiday season. These pictures are part of an ongoing project I’m having fun with: all the various ways people memorialize their visit to New York, and to Times Square specifically. The full series is in a gallery on my photography site.
No, just a train arriving, taking me to New York on a dark Sunday night…
Only in the fall, when all the leaves are down, do you start noticing some of the other, equally beautiful things of the forest: mushrooms, bark, fungi.
On a drive through rural Georgia, I felt transported back to the 1950s.
I loved this old vault in a Wells Fargo Branch in Americus:
I only captured the service station part of this establishment. I’ll leave the grocery store to your imagination:
All shots taken with Canon PowerShot G12
After the overdose of vibrant colors my eyes were subjected to during the first few days in Vermont, I decided to take a break from the colors. Instead, I focused on textures and contrasts to come up with some black & white photographs:
Forest Mushroom
Birch Bark
Pond Reflections
Well, at least THIS man’s best friend. Caught this man and his dog while walking through Brooklyn – both were completely content sitting on the doorstep of their house and pursing their favorite activity – reading and people watching.
Shot with Canon EOS 7D, 100mm f/2.8L Macro
ISO 800
100mm
f/3.2
1/80 sec
On a walk through Brooklyn I found a parked Rolls Royce (yes, parked and unattended!) and had fun experimenting with some close-up photography of the hood ornament, called ‘Spirit of Ecstacy’ , designed in 1911. Here are a few of my favorite takes.
All images shot with Canon EOS 7D, 100mm macro lens
On a recent walk through Brooklyn’s DUMBO district (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), I found lots of interesting views of both the Brooklyn Bridge as well as the Williamsburg Bridge. The district is New York’s 90th historic district.
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm EF
Who would have thought that the New York Police Department has time for photo opportunities? But they do, and they endure the onslaught of tourists in Times Square gracefully. This is a continuation of my Times Square series I started a few weeks ago.
Captured with Canon Powershot G12, modified with Silver Efex 2
Driving by New Haven’s port facility, I spotted these rusting pieces of equipment.
Canon EOS 7D
I found these moments of vacation snapshots more interesting than the actual splendor (or squalor, depending on your point of view) of Times Square. Check out the first post in this series.
All photos taken with Canon Powershot G12, modified with SilverEfex 2.
I don’t think these two really cared whether anyone noticed. Caught on a viewing platform of New York’s High Line.
Panorama shots taken on a drive across the USA. These are from Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
All shots taken with Canon EOS 7D.
Taken from the roof terrace of my building on 52nd Street and 10th Avenue.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 200
f/7.1
6pm
Great shot of an antique car at the LeMay auto museum in Tacoma.
Found in Americus, GA. Population: 17,000.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 400
f/5
1 sec
Took a few shots on the main thoroughfare of Americus, GA, a small town 100 miles south of Atlanta, on a recent business trip there. Here’s the Windsor Hotel, a Victorian landmark:
The three-story lobby is gorgeous.
Old building along Lamar Street, the main street in town:
All shot with Canon Powershot G12, my compact camera I take along when I don’t want to carry my DSLR.
Stormy weather on the Connecticut shore meant there wasn’t a whole lot to see with these binoculars.
Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm
ISO 100
30mm
f/5
1/800 sec
Well, actually there are too many to list, but this one’s very nice: Au Rocher de Cancale in the Rue Montorgueil. Posted today because a new follower from Paris made me realize how much I miss it.
Canon Powershot G10
ISO 100
7mm
f/4
1/100 sec
Wallace Falls State Park, Washington
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 100
f/8
.4 sec
1 stop underexposed
Abandoned car on a farm in Wyoming.
Canon 7D, EFS 10-85mm
ISO 400
15mm
f/4.5
1/250 sec
Waiting for a ray of sun to burst through the dark sky paid off, as I visited this landmark I never thought I’d see because it’s so far off the beaten path. Glad I finally saw the inspiration for ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’.
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 200
21mm
f/11
1/200 sec
Shot during a dust storm tearing through Monument Valley in Spring 2010.
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 100
50mm
f/5.6
1/80 second
Snapshots For Sore Eyes 
