Chuck Coyne wrote:
Just reviewing some shots taken this past October at Taughannock Falls in Upsate New York near Ithaca and found this one that I passed over.
Jman13 wrote:
Ah, my old stomping grounds. I lived in Ithaca for 6 years (during college and a bit after). Unfortunately, I didn't really get into photography until later, and have only been back once since I have. Beautiful shot of Taughannock Falls....it's not always so flowing, and you caught the fall colors perfectly.
Jordan,
Thank you very much. You should try to get back up that way again. Watkins Glen is just up the road a bit as well.
Chuck
Thank you very much. You should try to get back up that way again. Watkins Glen is just up the road a bit as well.
Chuck
Indeed. I've been there several times, but only took a handful of photos on an old film compact. I did shoot a fair bit around Ithaca when I went back for my 10 year Cornell reunion in 2011, but didn't get a chance to head out to Watkins Glen again on that trip. Will probably be back next summer for my 20th.
It's been a few years since we did a dawn photography raid on the Michigan Lighthouses. This past weekend, the cards fell into place to head around the bend and take some new shots of the Michigan lights. So early Sunday morning, myself and Mark Kinsman set off with a trunk full of camera equipment to see what the Michigan lights had to offer since we were last there, several years ago!
In a bid to keep things fresh, we decided to head to the Michigan City light, which is always the easiest to get to while still having a hope of morning light, then instead of stopping at the many lights up the Michigan coast... make a beeline for the Big Sable Light, some 200+ miles further north a few miles north of Ludington, which neither of us had visited before.
On arriving at Big Sable, we embarked on the two mile hike in, which we hadn't anticipated, the Okpik sled would have been useful for the camera gear, but we had plenty of time, arriving at the light about an hour before sunset.
As is always the case with photography, you start out with a preconceived vision of the shot you wanna get, and inevitably come away with something completely different. That was the case here, this is a photo of the Big Sable Fog Horn, no longer in use of course, but it made for an engaging subject along with the very frozen bird hose next to it. I hope the birds vacated for warm climates!
We are having the worst winter in many years, but in the morning of the day when I took these it snowed like crazy. Then when the sun came out for a short while it was beautiful, so I took another a walk down to the river. The next day the rain was back and the snow turned into slush...
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Going back through some of my favorite shots and taking another crack at processing them. This one is from 2015 and one of the few waterfall shots I've taken where you can see some blue sky.
