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Here is a shot that kids would get very excited about:
This was a fun fair setting up at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The staff had fun testing the equipment prior to opening night.
Shot with Canon Powershot G12
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
Found this one alongside a road in Vermont:
Then I saw this road, and the entire road was surrounded by color, lit up by the sunrise:
But nothing surpassed the flame red foliage surrounding this pond:
Found these waterfalls in Vermont while hiking:
Near Smuggler’s Notch
Glenn Moss Creek Falls
Glenn Moss Falls, near Stowe, VT
All taken with Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm lens, various apertures
A week in Vermont during peak foliage season was simply magical. Here are some parting shots, all taken near Stowe:
This time I enjoyed getting very very close to my subject. Fortunately, the mushrooms didn’t move much. The frog was a bit more challenging – took about 3 minutes to get close enough for this macro shot.
Canon EOS 7D, 100mm EF-L f2/8
Glen Moss Creek near Stowe provided some great photo opportunities:
Finally had a day featuring a sunrise, and I was amply rewarded with beautiful light. Mixed with the early morning dew, it created some great photo opportunities:
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
Driving along Highway 100 in Vermont, I came across too many photo opportunities to ask my wife to stop for every single one of them. Still, I managed to take advantage of a few, catching the peak season of the famous Vermont Foliage:
I haven’t even been here for 24 hours, and already my camera is bursting with colorful shots of the fall foliage. And according to the foliage report, this isn’t even peak season yet! Stay tuned for more.
Canon EOS 7D, 70-200mm
ISO 200
Although surrounded by ear-numbing construction on all sides, the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan is an oasis of peace and quiet. Even the fountains didn’t seem to make any noise.
All photographs taken with Canon EOS 7D, 24-77mm EFL f/2.8
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
Today the sky was so blue I just had to post some pictures of it. And the fall blooms provided a nice contrast. It was the kind of gorgeous day that made me think of one of my favorite songs that always gets my feet tapping: ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ by ELO (“Sun is shining in the sky, there ain’t a cloud in sight…”).
All photos shot with iphone Hipstamatic.
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
This is Jane’s Carousel, an antique carousel (built in 1922) lovingly restored by Jane Walentas in her studio in Brooklyn. It now sits in a dedicated structure at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, is open year-round, and enjoyed by kids of all ages.
Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm
ISO 100
f/4
1/30 sec
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
I captured this while driving through South Dakota on a warm summer night.
Shot in South Dakota, with Canon EOS 7D, EFS 15-85mm lens
ISO 200
f/5
64 sec
Burning Man 2012 is coming up at the end of the month. Here’s a photo I took there in 2006.
Driving by New Haven’s port facility, I spotted these rusting pieces of equipment.
Canon EOS 7D
This city provides great photo opportunities at any time of day. Here’s the NY Public Library:
Here’s Grand Central Terminal:
Times Square:
Ogilvy Building in Hell’s Kitchen:
All photos taken with Canon Powershot G12 and tripod
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.
Another gorgeous day at the local beach – as seen by the many seagulls walking around.
The Flatiron Building will always be my favorite building in New York:
Here are a few other views:
Manhattan Solstice or ‘Manhattanhenge’ is one of two days every year when the sun sets exactly in line with the crosstown streets of Manhattan. Because New York’s grid isn’t aligned exactly along East/West, this phenomenon doesn’t occur on June 21 (like in Stonehenge), but on two days spaced evenly around summer solstice (this shot was taken on July 11, 2012).
Canon EOS 7D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L
ISO 250
200mm
f/5
1/125 sec
Late afternoon thunderstorm gathering over Clinton Harbor, CT.
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
ISO 160
32mm
f/8
1/25 sec
A New England beach offering a spot of reading serenity:
Shot with iPhone, enhanced with Snapseed.
These escapes seem pretty useless when there’s no escape from the 105 degree heat in NY.
Canon Powershot G12
ISO 100
f/4.5
1/60 sec
and they’re spectacular (probably not the best ad to endear itself to New Yorkers…)
Shot with iPhone, in NY.
Watching these graceful herons at our beach sure awakened in me the desire to fly. I’m glad that the Wright brothers did something about it.
This little girl watched with envy as her bigger sister rode the carousel in Bryant Park. I hope she got her turn later.
Canon Powershot G12
ISO 100
f/3.5
1.0 sec
I don’t think these two really cared whether anyone noticed. Caught on a viewing platform of New York’s High Line.
I happened upon this massive yoga session in Times Square yesterday. Unfortunately the organizers didn’t know that it would be 95 degrees at 7pm. Nobody seemed to mind though, and for an hour, Times Square was an oasis of peace.
Looking up in New York never gets tiring, even though most New Yorkers don’t. That’s how you can tell who is a tourist and who is not. I still look up all the time.
All photos shot with Canon Powershot G12
Panorama shots taken on a drive across the USA. These are from Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
All shots taken with Canon EOS 7D.
Well, maybe not everyone at Goldman Sachs is a billionaire, but everyone there can enjoy this view from the 43rd floor of their Manhattan offices.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 100
f/5
1/250 sec
Friday afternoon in Grand Central Terminal still feels so much calmer than any other train station I’ve ever seen.
The surroundings didn’t take anything away from this couple’s enjoyment of their ice cream. Captured in New York, 18th Street.
Shot with Canon Powershot G12
ISO 400
f/4
1/5 sec
Even a small Memorial Day parade as the one in our town (Clinton, CT) is a great opportunity to honor our fallen heroes.
All photographs taken with Canon EOS 7D, 70-200mm
ISO 100
f/5.6
1/125 sec
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
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
Taken from the roof terrace of my building on 52nd Street and 10th Avenue.
Canon PowerShot G12
ISO 200
f/7.1
6pm
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.
A follow-up to my post about where cars go to party in NYC, here’s where they go to sleep:
This was shot as seen from the High Line (check back tomorrow to see what that is):
I took these shots while walking through my neighborhood in the evening, struck by the fact that these sights are pretty rare in Manhattan.
Shot with Canon Powershot G12
ISO 400
f/4.5
multiple exposures
These monkeys had no fear – they prowled across the hotel property with impunity.
And this howler monkey didn’t care whether he was flashing us or not:
And this spider monkey thought he could fly:
All photos taken in Costa Rica in April 2012, with Canon EOS 7D, 200mm lens.
Found these two wild turkeys strolling across our lawn today. Raced to my camera gear to get a good shot, and was lucky that they were still there when I got back.
The male was about 3 feet (1m) tall.
Canon EOS 7D, 70-200mm EF IS II
ISO 200
135mm
f/6.3
1/400
Caught on my way to work today: father and son on Park Avenue.
While there’s a constant racket of bird chirps, screeches, and whistles in the background, the birds in Costa Rica’s are actually very hard to find because they hide in dense foliage of the rainforest canopy. I was lucky to get these shots during a week-long visit. Here is a Toucan, the national symbol of Costa Rica:
This was shot at 400mm, and then cropped by 2x. With the naked eye, the Toucan was just a dark blob in the foliage. Here’s another screecher (no idea what this one is called):
And here’s a hummingbird, the hardest one to catch on film because they dart so quickly from flower to flower:
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, 200mm or 400mm, ISO 1000 to ensure fast enough shutter speed.
Saw quite a few lizards and iguanas in Antonio Manuel National Park yesterday morning. This one is a Ctenosaur – it was about 2 feet long and resting on a tree overlooking the beach:
And this one is a Plumed Basilisk, also known as the Jesus Christ Lizard, for his ability to run across water for up to 20 meters:
And these little ones (20 cm) ran so fast and their heads darted in all directions so frequently that they reminded me of the velociraptors in Jurassic Park:
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, 400mm, ISO 500, f/5.6, 1/160 sec
Snapshots For Sore Eyes 