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Well, it’s creepy enough to be haunted, although I only saw signs of teenage transgressions (i.e. graffiti) when I visited the Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford, CT. It was built in the 1930s as a convalescent home for young children suffering from Tuberculosis, and shut down in the 1990s.
Abandoned Room
Here are a few more shots, in addition to the previous post. Click on any image to see them in slide show format.
Playground Slide
Hallway
Broken Glass
Hallway with Boots
Electric Plug
Dilapidated Cupboard
That’s the eerie graffiti I found in an old abandoned sanatorium on the Connecticut seaside. Which one do you like better: color or black&white?
Canon EOS 7D, 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
ISO 100
10mm
f/4.5
1/4 sec
Some other shots I really liked from my visit to the National Zoo in Washington, DC (the first one was a collaboration with my son – he took the shot with my camera, I did the editing):
Some shots from a walk through the National Zoo in Washington, DC:
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.
Old Piano
Smoke stack
A brief trip to Washington, DC, gave me a chance to see the famous Cherry Blossom Season:
Tiny shells (1 cm long) on our local beach, shot with my macro lens:
Canon EOS 7D, 100mm 1/2.8 macro lens
ISO 100
f/3.2
1/400 sec
Winter wonderland along I-89 in Vermont:
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
ISO 100
F/14
1/60 sec
I can handle the cold when it’s nice and sunny (because you get nice pictures like these at sunrise):
Canon EOS 7D, EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro
ISO 100
f/3.2
1/400 sec
Tomorrow ends my last winter visit to Stowe, VT. Haven’t taken too many pictures lately because I feel like I’ve exhausted the possibilities, and because skiing has taken precedence. But here are a few that I liked from this week:
Fresh snow, a setting sun, plus some fiddling with various filters, and voila: a different take on the typical sunset.
I’m off to Montana, and thus took a look again at pictures that I took 2 years ago in Elkhorn, Montana, an abandoned mining town. I finally have the software (Nik Color Efex) to turn somewhat bland snapshots into much more interesting photographs.
I shot these pictures as a storm was developing near Devils Tower in Wyoming. I had to rush to get into a position where the storm clouds and the sunset converged, and made it just in the nick of time:
This is what you see when you approach the National Monument from the south:
Canon EOS 7D
Top: ISO 200, f/11, 1/125 sec, 21mm
Bottom: ISO 200, f/11, 1/80 sec, 90mm
These windmills look pretty indestructible to me, and are about 20 times bigger than an old-fashioned windmill.
I’ve started using Nik Color Efex to enhance some of my photos. This is a good example what that software can do for a mediocre picture (original below):
Canon EOS 7D, EF-S 15-85mm
ISO 100
f/5.6
1/800 sec
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:
At -20 degrees at night in Vermont, the windows get nicely frosted. Brrrr! Ice flowers are less common these days, since everyone now has double-paned windows, where these formations rarely show up. These were on a single-paned garage window.
Canon EOS 7D, 100mm f/2.8 Macro Lens
ISO 200
f/2.8
1/125
It’s now so cold that the saltwater is freezing, leaving interesting ice formations on the beach at low tide.
Canon EOS 7D, 28-70mm
HDR
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
Spotted this lovely barn on a walk through the snowy forest in Vermont:
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 200
f/7.1
HDR
This was caught one late afternoon from my window in Manhattan – looking towards New Jersey, just across the Hudson River. The moon is setting over Columbia Terraces in Weehawken, NJ.
Canon EOS 7D, EF70-200mm f/2.8L
ISO 100
f/11
2 sec
…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
Bark, especially from birch trees, provides so many opportunities to explore texture:
Details of a recent morning walk:
I discovered these ice formations during a walk through the Vermont woods yesterday morning:
Well, he certainly didn’t answer the call last week when I walked through Manhattan:
And while the Batmobile is cool, this ride is waaaay cooler!
Canon EOS 7D
ISO 200
18mm
f/8
30 sec
I love the festive mood that all of New York gets into before the holidays. It’s especially nice on a crisp, cold fall night. Here are a few of my favorite spots in mid-town. Happy Holidays!
I was inspired by The Strobist, a great blog about lighting that I recently discovered, to try some of my own lighting experiments. Ingredients: Objects in my house (shell found on the beach today, an antique spur from a flea market in Buenos Aires, and a Buddha head I picked up in Taiwan), a piece of glass, a sheet of white paper, a sheet of black paper, and two lights. And my camera, with a macro lens. And 2 hours to spare.
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.
Had some fun with Black&White while wandering through Central Park at night:
I had the privilege of seeing last week, from my window, three icons of modern day transportation lined up next to each other: The Concorde (fastest passenger jet ever), the Space Shuttle (highest altitude orbital space craft ever), and the Queen Mary 2 (largest Ocean Liner* ever built):
The Space Shuttle is on the deck of the aircraft carrier (now museum) Intrepid, while the Concorde is on a pier right next to it, in between the Space Shuttle and the Queen Mary 2.
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Canon EOS 7D, EF-S 10-22mm
ISO 400
18mm
f/4.5
*There are now some cruise ships that are bigger than the Queen Mary 2, but she remains the largest Ocean Liner (a vessel that has a set route between two ports – in this case Southampton and New York – and is built to withstand rough seas).
I know that the rule is to keep the sun out of the picture, and preferably behind you, but this time I thought I’d experiment doing the opposite.
ISO 100, 60mm, f/22, 10 sec, using 10x ND filter
ISO 100, 24mm, f/20, 1/250sec
ISO 100, 24mm, f/22, 1/160 sec
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm EF lens
Early morning weather in CT today. ‘Stick season,’ as the locals call it, is here. Still, there’s beauty in it, especially in early morning and evening light. Reminds me of the moody paintings of the romantic German painter Caspar David Friedrich, one of my favorites.
Canon EOS 7D, 50mm f/1.4
ISO 200
f/22
1/800 sec
Here are two paintings of Caspar David Friedrich:
With nature providing fewer opportunities for color photography, I decided to do some indoor photography, experimenting with ‘macro pyro photography'(my personal technical term):
ISO 2000, -4 ev, f/2.8, 1/8000
ISO 2000, f/2.8, 1/100
ISO 2000, f/2.8, 1/20, add’l lighting from flashlight
All photos taken with Canon EOS 7D, EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro IS USM
This is Kearney, a retired Guide Dog for the Blind who had enjoyed her retirement with us for the last 4 1/2 years before passing away last month. This is how I’ll always remember her – slightly leaning from a stroke (which she recovered from almost fully), attentive, and super sweet. And next week, we’ll get a new addition to the family, yet another retired Guide Dog that needs a home, named Skylark (and also a German Shepherd). I’m VERY excited!
Now that the leaves are down, I just need to post one more shot that reflects how I felt when watching the leaves turn in Vermont: a veritable EXPLOSION of color!
Canon EOS 7D, 24-70mm
ISO 100
f/20
1/15
multiple focal lengths
Taken a few days before hurricane Sandy, when the weather was still nice enough to wander to the beach without a heavy jacket.
Canon EOS 7D, EF 24-70mm
Top: ISO 100, 70mm, f/2.8, 1/2500 sec
Bottom: ISO 100, 66mm, f/3.2, 1/320 sec
And sometimes I can’t help myself and I just HAVE to pull out my camera and take a picture of these mouth-watering delights. The first one is my favorite bakery in New York: Amy’s Bread on 9th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen. Their Miche is to die for! The second one is a market in Stowe, VT. What’s your favorite bakery?
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:
Smuggler’s Notch, VT
Canon EOS 7D, EF24-70mm f/2.8L
ISO 160
f/13
1/80 sec
Fall is definitely here: we had the first frost in CT, and that provided some nice photo opportunities:
All images shot with Canon EOS 7D, 100mm Macro lens f/2.8
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:
Snapshots For Sore Eyes 
