Chittenango Falls
Chittenango Falls, in Cazenovia NY is a 167 foot waterfall. It is a very scenic location and well worth the short walk. This is a NY State Park, with marked trails, and picnic areas. Not far from Utica. Approximately a quarter mile trail leads down to the stream...
Long Exposures and Motion
How do you get that smooth look when shooting moving water during a bright sunny day? Most cameras in a regular automatic mode will get a photo like this when you take a picture of a water fall: This photo was shot, hand held, with an aperture of f11, and a shutter...
3 Articles With Some Great Halloween Photo Tips
Halloween is coming. Some great opportunities to test your skills at low light photography, and quick moving kids. As with any photos, know your camera. If you are going to use flash, you need to be familiar with the range of the flash. If you are too far away...
Gettysburg PA, Dobbin House Ghost??
I finally got a photo that's hard to explain on our trip to Gettysburg. I've taken hundreds of photos in Gettysburg, these are the first "weird" ones I've captured. The Dobbin House Tavern was the last stop on our "ghost tour." Supposedly people see children's faces...
Summertime
One subject I've been shooting a lot of is baseball. My son's little league season is winding down. Appropriately, this week's theme on Photochallenge.org is Summer. I snapped this shot just as he connected for a double in last night's game. The weather this...
Brig. General Gouverneur Warren Monument, Gettysburg
Overlooking Devil's Den from the top of Little Round Top on the Gettysburg battlefield is a monument honoring Brig. General Warren. He was chief engineer for General Meade, and on the 2nd day of the battle he found that there were no men occupying the top of this...
Sach’s Bridge – Gettysburg PA
This was off the beaten path, and not in the battlefield tour books. However, when you walk downtown, you will usually see Ghost Hunters that will take you to a haunted covered bridge. Sach's bridge is the place. I didn't go for the ghosts. I went for the water...
Gettysburg Canon at Sunset
My family and I spent Memorial Day weekend in Gettysburg, PA. One of the best spots to shoot a sunset is on Little Round Top, one of the high vantage points of the Union lines during the battle. Sitting there watching the sun go down is very peaceful, and judging by...
Home – Baseball Season
Home. That's the Photochallenge 2013 theme for week 19. I took a seasonal approach this time. My son is in the middle of baseball season. This is what Home means in the spring of the year across much of the US. And, this is not only Home on the little league...
Photographer’s Resource for predicting the Moon and Sun
The Photographers Ephemeris, or TPE is a really cool app I found that helps me plan a photo outing when the goal is to get sunrise, sunset, or moon photos. Using either your current location, or a location you search for as a base, it will tell you the time, and...
Upstate NY Agriculture
The majority of Upstate NY Agriculture has historically been based on dairy and beef farming. The number of farms in the area has been dropping in recent years, but there are still many fields full of cows. And many of the crops raised are for feeding cows. Hay,...
A Legacy of Music
Photochallenge.org week 17's theme is music. Some of my earliest memories of music are of my father playing his harmonica in the evening after the farm chores were finished. In later years, when he lived in a nursing home, he played every day for the other residents...