A New England beach offering a spot of reading serenity:
Shot with iPhone, enhanced with Snapseed.
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Beach Reading 2 comments
Morning Dew Leave a comment
I am discovering that the iPhone is great for capturing the details of life.
Desert Colors 2 comments
Fun in my parent’s backyard in Phoenix with a macro lens.
Shot with Canon EOS 7D, 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens
Big Open Spaces Leave a comment
Panorama shots taken on a drive across the USA. These are from Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
All shots taken with Canon EOS 7D.
Rain Forest Queen 2 comments
While walking through the endless emerald tinted rain forest of Costa Rica, something as bright and colorful as this is definitely royalty.
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Shot with Canon EOS 7D, enhanced with Snapseed iPhone app
Checkmate in Bryant Park Leave a comment
As the evenings get warmer, Bryant Park, located behind the NY Public Library, becomes a gathering place for lovers, strollers, and chess players.
A fountain offers calming background sounds:
As the lawn slowly fills with people and people watchers:
All shots taken with Canon Powershot G12 and mini-tripod, multiple exposures
Walk on the High Line 4 comments
A late afternoon along the High Line in New York yielded some nice photo opportunities. The High Line is a 1-mile New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile section of the former elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line.
All photographs taken with Canon Powershot G12, various exposures combined.
New England Antiques Leave a comment
A late afternoon drive around our town revealed you don’t have to go to an antique store to find antiques.
I’m sure this snow plow hasn’t seen any action for years.
And the antique store has turned into an antique….
All shot with Canon Powershot G10 and tripod, multiple exposures combined using HDR Efex Pro
Spring Birch Grove Leave a comment
Lying on my back in a peaceful grove of birch trees near our town beach, I shot this with a wide angle lens.
Canon EOS 7D, EFS 10-22mm
ISO 200
10mm
f/22
1/200 sec
Red Spring 1 comment
While not everything is blooming yet, the red barn and the red door on a cottage in our neighborhood are adding a nice splash of color to the surroundings. Soon they’ll have competition from the spring flowers.
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 320
f/7.1
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 320
f/3.2
1/250 sec
Waiting for Spring Leave a comment
Despite warmer-than-normal temperatures, I wish the trees wouldn’t look so desolate. Can’t wait for green leaves!
Powershot G12
ISO 160
16mm
f/3.5
Boardwalk in Winter Leave a comment
This was shot on Hammonasset Beach in Connecticut, on a cold and blustery day. Still, always a lovely place for a walk.
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm
ISO 100
24mm
f/2.8
1/250 sec
25 Cent View 1 comment
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
Winter Scene in Vermont 1 comment
Walking my dog in Stowe, VT.
Canon EOS 7D, EF 50mm f/1.4
ISO 100
f/2.2
1/8000
Wild Cascade River Leave a comment
Wallace Falls State Park, Washington
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 100
f/8
.4 sec
1 stop underexposed
Double Waterfall in the Cascades 1 comment
Wallace Falls State Park – taken on Feb 5, an unusually gorgeous and warm day.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 100
f/7.1
Snow in Stowe Leave a comment
A weekend in Stowe, VT, provided an opportunity to try snow photography.
Canon EOS 7D, 50mm f/1.4
ISO 100
50mm
f/2.8
1/800 sec
Beautiful Sunset or The End of the World? 2 comments
Maybe it’s both….
Canon EOS 7D, EF-S 15-85mm
ISO 100
f/5
Wyoming Wreck 1 comment
Abandoned car on a farm in Wyoming.
Canon 7D, EFS 10-85mm
ISO 400
15mm
f/4.5
1/250 sec
Fall Leaves 1 comment
Not many leaves are left on the trees – they’re all on the ground, for close-up inspection.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 100
11mm
f/5.6
1/60 sec
Fall in Connecticut Leave a comment
Love the fall colors, even though they are not as bright as usual because hurricane Irene covered the trees with salt water, which made them lose their leaves earlier than usual.
iphone
Hipstamatic
film: Kodot XGrizzled
lens: Salvador 84
Fall has arrived in Connecticut 1 comment
When the mushrooms are sprouting like this, you know that fall is here.
Canon PowerShot G12
Beach Boulders Leave a comment
Shot this at sunset at Hammonasset Beach in CT.
iphone
Mt Rushmore Panorama Leave a comment
Here’s a 180 degree of the Black Hills in SD, to give you an idea of where Mt. Rushmore is situated.
Canon Powershot G12
Five shots stitched into one
On the Oregon Trail 3 comments
Caught this wagon while passing through a little town in Oregon. First time playing around with HDR software to enhance the photo.
Canon EOS 7D, EFS10-22mm
ISO 250
12mm
f/5.6
3 exposures combined with HDR Efex
Badlands Vista Leave a comment
This is pretty much how every rock formation in the Badlands looks like – just imagine thousands of these and you’ll have some idea of the Badlands.
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 400
35mm
f/5
1/250 sec
Lightning over the Badlands Leave a comment
I witnessed the most amazing (and at times terrifying) storm of my life while crossing the Badlands in South Dakota: 6 hours of continuous lightning, across the entire 360 degree horizon, interspersed with torrential downpours and hail the size of hazelnuts. But it turned out to be a great night for photography.
Devil’s Tower, Wyoming 1 comment
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
Cross Country Drive: Utah Leave a comment
Storm clouds that fortunately emptied of water by the time we got underneath.
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 100
24mm
f/4
1/2000 seconds
Cross Country Drive: Wyoming Leave a comment
View out the passenger window during a cross-country drive.
Canon EOS 7D, EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
ISO 100
35mm
f/4.5
1/250 sec
Indian Chief surveying his realm 1 comment
I like to take little figures with me on trips and insert them into photos where appropriate. On my trip to the Southwest, I took along this little Indian. He ended up in a lot of my photos.
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 100
85mm
f/22
1/30 sec
Inner Sunset Sunset Leave a comment
This was the view today from our neighborhood (aptly titled ‘Sunset’).
Canon EOS 7D, EF-S 15-85mm
ISO 100
15mm
f/7.1
1/160 sec
Adirondack Morning Leave a comment
Morning mist over Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks.
Fuji FinePix F10
ISO 400
10.4mm
f/7.1
1/600 second
Mt. Rainier Sunset Leave a comment
This photo was taken the evening before our ascent to the top of Mt.Rainier, from our base camp.
Fuji FinePix F10
ISO 100
24mm
f/5
1/100 sec
Monument Valley Dust Storm Leave a comment
Shot during a dust storm tearing through Monument Valley in Spring 2010.
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 100
50mm
f/5.6
1/80 second
Saguaro Series #2 Leave a comment
These were all shot with my iphone, and a cool little app called ‘Hipstamatic’.
Saguaro Series #1 Leave a comment
I love these sentinels of the desert – quiet giants that dominate the Arizona desert.
Half Dome Ant Trail Leave a comment
This was shot on Memorial Day weekend in 2006. Culmination of a 8 hour hike starting at 5 am, we were rewarded with snow on top of Half Dome and gorgeous views of Yosemite Valley.
Fuji Finepix F10
ISO 200
8mm
f/6.4
1/800 second
Sierra Nevada Tree Leave a comment
I shot this on a hike in the Sierra Nevada foothills, with a point-and-shoot. I loved the detail and the melancholy mood of a dead tree that could be 1,000 years old.
Fuji Finepix F10
ISO 200
10.4mm
f/6.4
1/500 second
Sunrise in Antelope Canyon 6 comments
I shot this while on spring break vacation (2010) with my son in Arizona/Utah. This was in the Lower Antelope Canyon, around 11:30 in the morning, when a few openings in the canyon allow light to reach all the way to the floor of the canyon.
Canon EOS 7D, 15-85mm
ISO 125
15mm
f/14
13.0 seconds
Hello world! 1 comment
Welcome to my photo blog, featuring snapshots that strike my fancy (and I hope yours, too). Here’s my first picture – of the Stanford Dish, a large telescope visible from Highway 280 near Palo Alto.
Canon EOS 7D, 50mm F/1.4
ISO 400
50mm
f/2.8
1/6400
Edited with Silver Efex Pro
Snapshots For Sore Eyes 
