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PICTURES OF THE WEEK
I try to keep up with weekly updates of images
I am working on through my travels. I hope you enjoy
them and if you have any questions just let me know.
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Week of 5/5 (2 for 1 week)
I've got two pictures this week. First
is a quick picture I took in Cades Cove in the Smoky Mts. This
mother bear was keeping eye on me while the year old, foraged behind
her.
Second, is our son Ben at his graduation
from the University of Tenn. Yeah Ben! It took a
few years but he now knows all the words to Rocky Top. |

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Week of 4/28
Sometimes you don't get the best image, but being there was fun.
I spent some time at Dam #4 on the Potomac with the herons and
egrets that were feeding there. I really enjoy watching these
birds fly. |
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Week of 4/21 It's
pouring down rain. We got 4 inches in the last 24 hrs.
So as I sat on the porch reading an article by William Neill on his
impressionist work. He explained his "In Camera" technique
(not photoshop). So as I sat there I looked out and saw great
textures and colors with the different greens of the spring, the red
buds, and the wet black bark of the trees. I might have to try
this some more. |
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Week of 4/14
Spring flowers are popping up everywhere. This Squirrel-corn
flower was shot along the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry National
Historic Park in the Virginias Island area. This is a nice
place to walk around, wild flowers, some ruins of the island, and a
lot of water birds including herons. |
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Week of 4/7 These
falls are one of the two falls in Twin Falls state Park.
This could be a nice location in June when the Rhododendron are
blooming. |
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Week of 3/31 The
Wheeling skyline. This was one of the few trips I had made to
Wheeling where the skies were clear and not raining. |
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Week of 3/17/08
Spring is almost here. We have few crocuses that are
trying to come out but I still want some color. A
project I was working on for the Buckhannon Strawberry festival gave
me some. Can't find color outside? Make a trip to
the grocery store. |
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week of 3/10/08
If you don't like what is outside, try shooting inside. This
is the Barbour County Courthouse. I used a stitched panoramic
method to create this image. The courtroom was renovated
several years ago after a dead bird fell through a drop ceiling onto
the prosecutors desk. This revealed a wonderful stained glass
skylight in the center of the room. |
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Week of 3/3/08
Sometimes March is not my favorite time to shoot. There little
snow right here and not much color. So I thought I'd try
something I've not done for a while, Black & White.
I went for a hike on the C&O Canal near Shepherdstown, WV.
Since I was shooting digital I could have had the camera do the B&W
for me, but I would loose too much information when it processed it.
So I shot in RAW mode and did the B&W processing in Photoshop.
That way I retained much more detail information. |
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Week of 2/18/08 A
day after Ansel Adams' birthday I was treated to a wonderful day in
Tucker County, WV with 6" of fresh powder, little wind, and blue
skies. Of course the temperatures started out at -3F,
but that was OK. This image is from Douglas Falls,
located just off the rail trail near Douglas, WV. the main
falls is over 40ft tall. |
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Week of 1/1/08
"Have you heard?"
I've been a little behind in keeping up
with my weekly images. I've been spending the last few
weeks going over my pictures from the previous year and working on
some new items for 2008.
These two deer were at Blackwater Falls
State Park
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Week of 11/11/07
This panorama taken at Harpers Ferry WV was after about a 3 hour
wait for the fog to lift. It was very high this day and
visibility was down to a few feet until around 10:00. When it
lifted there was only about 1/2 hour before all of the fog was gone. |
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Week of 10/29.07
When taking night pictures of cities, like here in Roanoke, VA, you
need to anticipate how some things will look, like the highway that
runs through town. Knowing that the long exposure would
give the classic white and red streams, I used it as part of the
composition. A leading line to the fog and mountains beyond.
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Week of 10/22/07
The fall colors have been 1 to 2 weeks late this year. It has
been dry, but this day was rainy. Sometimes the rain or cloud
cover can saturate the colors of the few leaves that have changed to
make the picture more interesting. This picture was taken from
the hill behind the tent camping area at the Shadows of Seneca Camp
Ground. |
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Week of 10/15/07
I've been trying to get this sunrise in the New River Gorge from
Diamond Point for a few months now (see 7/29/07). I knew
that the sun would be coming up toward the center of the image this
time of year and I arrived just a little too late (about 15 minutes
prior to sunrise) to reduce the hot spot where the sun was coming
up. |
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Week of 10/8/07
The leaf color in the Blackwater Canyon is normally fairly well
along by the 10th of October, but this year it is running a little
late. I found a single tree from the Lindy Point
overlook that had turned and composed it with the fog that was
rising from the canyon. I then waited until the sun rose
enough to light the tree and still leave a little shadow on part of
the image.
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Week of 10/1/07
Fog changes so quickly, especially at sunrise. Just before the
sun came up this day this field was totally clear. Right
at sunrise this low fog came up behind me in the field.
Then within minutes after the sun came up, the fog moved off this
field. |
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Week of 9/24/07
I've been wanting to get a better image of the Charles Town, WV
courthouse for sometime. One of the problems with taking
pictures of tall buildings or other things like waterfall in cramped
spaces is that a wide angle lens can distort the picture.
Sometimes this is a good artistic thing. To eliminate this you
want to become level with the subject. In this case I was
given permission to go to the roof of the building across the
street. |
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Week of 9/17/07
A bog area at Dolly Sods provides
opportunities to experiment with patterns in different textures and
colors |
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Week of 9/10/07
The start of Autumn in WV is the turning of the huckleberries at
Dolly Sods. This shot is to the South East during
sunset. Sometimes the better colors of sunset are not toward
the sun, but away from it. I also used a graduated neutral
density filter to allow me to get color and detail in the foreground
while keeping the soft colors in the sky. |
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Week of 9/3/07
Sorry I missed a couple of weeks. I went to Harpers
Ferry to hopefully get a little fog on the river. There was
not much so I went for some sunrise colors. Two fly
fisherman were on the river and I used them as components of the
composition. In another few weeks the sun rise will be
in the middle of this view. |
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Week of 8/13/07
The village of Helvetia in Randolph County, WV offers a feeling of a
Switzerland. I used the flower planter on the porch of
the Library as foreground interest to shoot the Museum building |
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Week of 8/5/07
Taking a walk down a foggy road one morning in Canaan Valley I
tried to make sure that the tops of the trees were left out where
the bright sun was starting to break through the fog so that to mood
was not broken. |
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7/29/07 The New River Gorge is one of my
favorite places to shoot. It has a lot of my favorite
things, water falls, consistent fog, and good places to shoot
sunrise/sunsets. This one is taken at sunrise from
Diamond Point. |
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7/16/07
It is always good to great the sun on top
of Dolly Sods. I've seen better displays of color up
here, but after a night of thunderstorms in my tent, any blue
sky looked good to me. |
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7/9/07 I spent
several days at Seneca Rocks camping and doing a show at the
Discovery Center. This image was taken during that trip
of Sites Homestead. |
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7/2/07 A trip to
Grandfather Mountain near Linville, NC provided me with an
opportunity to get very close to a Mountain Lion. The
viewing into this enclosure is above ground level. But Aspen,
the male lion, climbed a tree just in front of the viewing
area and we were no more than 20 feet apart. I think he
was trying to see if he could make the jump for a quick snack. |
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6/24/07 A fast
pan as the gull sweeps past the ice. It's actually from
the previous week, but it's better than anything I shot this week.
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Week of 6/17/07
This is as close as I have ever been to an eagle. There were
two soaring overhead for about 15 or 20 minutes. |
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Week of 6/10/07
Here is image I took while going over the Denali Highway. |
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Week of 6/3/07 I
spend time in Preston County this week, and was drawn to the waters
of Muddy Creek near an old iron furnace on the road between Bruceton
Mills and Kingwood. |
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Week of 5/27/07
This week I went out looking for panoramic images around Harpers
Ferry. What I came back with were wildlife images.
You don't always get what you went for, but try to come back with
the best image that is available. You just have to look for
it. |
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Week of 5/20/07
During the past two weeks a small stream near my home has become the
home for a family of Beaver.
It is amazing how quickly one animal can
change an area, but also how quickly other animals come to the newly
formed habitat. |
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Week of 5/13/07 I
spent 2 days shooting covered bridges and other sites in Bedford
County, PA. While I was unloading my gear at one bridge
I noticed this very simple scene in the field beside the car.
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Week of 5/6/07
There are many great photographic opportunities just off the
interstate. This mill is at McCormick Farm, less
than a mile off of interstate 81 south of Stanton, VA.
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Week of 4/29/07
Spring is starting to make it finally. The redbuds are full in
our area and provide a great source of subjects. I
captured a honey bee on this one as the vanishing of many hives made
the news during the week. |
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Week of 4/22/07 I
spent this week traveling all over WV from the Ohio River in the
west, south to the Kanawha & New Rivers and back to the Potomac.
This picture is of the Middle Falls of Hills Creek in the
Monongahela National Forest near Richwood. The creek was
high with the spring rains and snow melt. |
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Week of 4/15/07 I spent Saturday at Jackson's Mill in Weston,WV.
The mil pond there offers a lot of opportunities to capture
reflections. |
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Week of 4/8/07
Last snow of the year? Thought I'd catch the last of the
Easter weekend snow before it melted at Babcock State Park.
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Week of 4/1/07
Sorry I missed a week. I was a little under the weather.
The picture here is from an afternoon hike I took along the
Blackwater River in Canaan Valley. I was drawn to the
way the light was playing with the ripples in the water and worked
with that |
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