Community Photo Challenge - Vanishing Point

The wonderful folks over at Community Photo Challenge had two challenges this month.  This is my contribution for Vanishing Point.  It was taken in IR B&W at Skylands, The New Jersey Botanical Garden.

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Carl

Community Photo Challenge - Water

My post for the August Community Photo Challenge of Water is a shot from this spring at the wonderful Dover Stone Church Falls.

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Carl

A Rainy Sunday at Skylands

I don't much like getting wet.  It makes me scrunch my face up and squint, but sometimes the need to make art is stronger than our desire to be comfortable.  So I headed out this morning and spent two hours in the rain at Skylands with my 100mm lens and came away with these shots.  Not a bad walk in the rain If I must say.  I even splashed and jumped thru a few puddles like a little kid.  That was totally AWESOME!

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Carl

Cape Cod - A Preview

We leave for our annual end of summer trip to Cape Cod (10 years in a row and counting) in a few weeks.  To get myself ready and try to figure out what I wanted to photograph on this years trip I looked at last summers images.  They did the trick and got me all set to be on the Cape.  I can't wait.  Not sure what my focus will be this year... in the meantime I will just enjoy last years photos and count the days.

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Carl

Rose of Sharon - After the Rain

I captured these images in my backyard when the sun came out after a rain storm.  Beauty is there everywhere just waiting to be noticed if we open our eyes to it.

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Carl

The Monarchs are in town...

This weekend we had family visiting and a bbq on Saturday and I was busy with issues from my job that had me crazy, but at in between moments I ran outside with my camera to capture the monarch butterflies that are visiting my butterfly bush this week.  What beautiful creatures they really are.

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Carl

Hydrangea after the rain

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Carl

Watkins Glen Redux

On this rainy Sunday morning I was reminded of the hike I took in Watkin's Glen last summer.  So I went back reviewed some of the images and found a few more i did not use the first time that are actually pretty good.  I am planning to hit the studio to paint today.  If I can find it under all the dust and stuff.

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Carl

Chapel at Colgate University b&w

It is the time of year for infra red B&W!  The skies in central NY are really perfect for this type of shooting add to that the beauty of the Colgate campus and you have a great combination.

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Carl

Chittenango Falls - Cazenovia, NY

I found my self once again in Central, NY this weekend.  This time I was at Colgate University for the DeMolay (a masonic youth group I am an advisor for along with my Dad) State Convention.  The Colgate campus is not far away from Chittenango Falls.  I remembered these falls from a trip when I was in college and decided to steal away for an hour or so at sunrise.  It was well worth the time and the falls were as nice as I remembered.  I was happy top be able to include some wildflowers in the shots I think they really added to the composition.

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Carl