The Jet Star roller coaster broke away from Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, NJ during Hurricane Sandy last fall.  I made it up there with a couple of friends to get this once in a life time (hopefully) image.

March 7, 2013

Twenty-two named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park…and 80% of the images I post here on my website, as well as my Flickr site, are of Oneida Falls.  It’s my favorite waterfall in the Park.  By far it’s not the biggest…or tallest.  It doesn’t have a crazy cascade that sends white water in all directions.  There’s no real roar when you’re standing next to her.  It’s pretty unassuming.  Maybe…that’s what draws me in.   

February 4, 2013

From a particularly outrageous cold morning a couple of weeks ago at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

January 28, 2013

Just enough of a dusting this morning to add a little interest to this icy cold scene along the West Branch of the Brandywine in Newlin Township.

January 10, 2013

Taken this past autumn with my Holga 120N medium format film camera.

Ricketts Glen State Park
Autumn 2012

Oct. 19, 2012

I spent the better part of the morning/early afternoon shooting some fall scenes at Hibernia County Park.  Having shot there dozens and dozens of times I decided to take a different approach to my photography on this visit.  Returning to the same place over and over certainly has it’s merits and advantages…but at times it kills my enthusiasm.  To try to give my creativity a little kick in the butt I decided to shoot everything with a long exposure.  The exposure times varied from 2 seconds, all the way up to over 3 minutes. 

With the help of my 10 stop ND filter and a circular polarizer I managed a 122 second exposure of this scene of Chambers Lake with the clouds from a storm front blowing through.

My favorite image from a recent trip up to Ricketts Glen State Park.

3am comes pretty quickly when you don’t hit the sack until midnight.  But with the call for fog and rain in Luzerne County, I made the late decision to head up to Ricketts Glen State Park to shoot the always pleasing combination of waterfalls and fall foliage.  Leaving at 3:30 put me at the park by 6:00. which gave me an hour to hike in the dark to reach the first of the waterfalls before the 7:00 sunrise.

Unlike many places this year, the glen was full of water and the falls were really crashing.  All seasons are unique and hold their own magic at Ricketts, but autumn is pretty hard to beat.

A combination of wind, rain, darkness, and smeared lens lent themselves to complete this moody shot of one of my favorite waterfalls within Ricketts Glen State Park…Oneida Falls.

Glen Hope Covered Bridge on a sleepy, early summer morning.

Here’s a shot of it over at my Flickr site.