Autumn Collage

I'm still having a blast with autumn. For me Spring and fall are the two seasons that offer the most opportunity for me, photographically.

This was made on a walk though East Quogue. I love the colors and tones.

Made with the Canon G10 and processed with ACR.

Habanero Peppers

These have to be the prettiest peppers along with the hottest. It has a Scoville Heat Unit rating of between 150,000 and 325,000. For comparison, a Jalapeno is 5,000 and a Cayenne Pepper, 40,000.

They are not the hottest peppers, but very close to it.

I grew these and made a Barbecue Sauce, a hot Barbecue Sauce. But before I chopped them up I had to make a photo.

Made with the Canon G10's macro mode and processed with ACR.

Flowers in the yard.

The yard is in bloom, tulips are up, the bleeding hearts are opened and the grass is green. So, I thought I'd get some low angles of some of the flowers in the yard. I used the Canon G10 and the macro mode for these.

Peconic River

 

I stopped by the Peconic River yesterday after getting an oil change for my car. There was a man fishing who seemed to mind me being there. Camera shy fish can't be caught I guess. Anyway, I saw the signs of spring in the river and along the banks. I made this photo in the still part, where the reed grass grows. New green spouts are breaking the surface and soon will be a thick haven for dragonflies, mosquitoes, redwing blackbirds and the rest of summer life.

I'm getting all packed and ready for a three day trip to Florida to visit my family. I leave Friday morning for my parents home in Lakeland Florida. My sister and her family also live in Lakeland. The youngster of the family, John will come up from Fort Lauderdale sometime Friday and the last of the clan, Dan and his girlfriend, Shelly will be there Saturday. I'm looking forward to the visit.

Colors on the side of the road.

 

I don't know what this is. Possibly a pool liner or an inflatable boat of some kind. It was on the side of the road, dumped by someone. I drove past it and it caught my eye.

It was an exceptionally beautiful day. So I got some of the flowerbeds cleaned up. And put together my tax stuff. And on top of that, Hillary chose my Arrows post as a Post of the Week runner-up again. That's twice in one life time! It doesn't get better than that.

This image was made with the Canon G10 and processed with Photomatix Pro Tone Mapping program and Photoshop.

More Rust

 

I went for a walk along the ocean yesterday morning. It was very cold. The Beach Club at Agawam is getting a face lift while mother nature has reduced the size of the beach. The wood groins that are supposed to stop beach erosion are all exposed from the winter storms.

Today's post is from a lag bolt on one of the groins. The morning sun light and the natural rust colors were just beautiful. I wish I had something other than the Canon G10 to make this macro photo. I had to be careful of the crashing waves as I was bending down to make this photo.

Another rusty bolt.

What a busy day. It started at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Wyandanch. The Church has the largest outreach program in Suffolk County up until about twenty-six months ago. The people in need were still there, but the outreach building and rectory were destroyed by a fire.

Today was the groundbreaking ceremony for the rebuilding of both buildings. For the whole morning the sun was shinning. I'll try and post a couple of the photos tomorrow.

This afternoon, was gray and cold, there's talk of snow in the forecast. Nothing serious, but I was looking foreword to planting some early vegetables. Oh well.

Today's photo is another rust photo, made the Canon G10. I was drawn to the three different colors, the red brick, the gray cement and the blue blue plaster. I noticed the rusty bolt and snap! A photo.

Nine

 

Here's another one for my one to one hundred series, the number nine. It's fun looking for numbers with character. This was part of a phone number painted on a wall in Babylon Village.

I made this with the Canon G10 and Photoshop.

Dock Poles

Sometimes when the bay freezes over many mariners and people with docks and boat slip lose their dock poles. The ice causes the poles to lift and eventually come loose, like this one around the block from where we live. My in-laws have a dock and have lost poles in the past. I'm not sure how they faired this season.

Some people put in bubble systems that keep the water moving around the poles and prevents the water from freezing. The system works when the winter doesn't have a long cold stretch that freezes the moving water.

Made with the Canon G10 and processed with ACR.

Sunny Saturday

  I don't want to rub-it-in, but today's weather was fantastic. After making some baby photos this morning I started with yard work and cleaning up the vegetable garden. I know it's early, but it's better to do what I can, when I can. I understand it may rain tomorrow.

Today is Adam's last day home. It was a great visit, he was a big help with the yard work today.

My photo post is of bolts in the bulkhead by the canal. I've said it before, rust always catches my eye.

This was made with the Canon G10 and processed ACR.

Friday

 

What a beautiful Friday, the perfect day to pay hooky. I took a nice bike ride this morning down to Peconic Bay. The sun was shinning, birds chirping and everything was still. What a day. I did have an afternoon job to take care of. It was an outdoor photo, Everything was good, I even did a shadow portrait.

I took the Canon G10 with me and made these photos. Both were processed with ACR.

Spring is around the corner

I was able to go for a walk Tuesday before my last job of the day. I was at a Girl Scout Camp in Blue Point called Camp Edey. When I was a Boy Scout, we camped there late September or October and we would fix the trails or tent platforms for the Girl Scouts. We always would go looking for the girls, but we never found them.

The walk did me good, actually it would have been much better to air out my head after the job. The last three days have been great weather, high 60's and sunny, spring is showing signs all around. Spring flowers are breaking through the ground and buds are appearing.

I'm getting that itch for a macro lens again.

This was made with the Canon G10 and processed with ACR.

The Rain and the Wind

 

We had winds in the fifty to seventy miles an hour range Saturday night into Sunday morning; it was scary. A few shingles and a piece of fachier siding flew off the house, and we have a water stain on the ceiling in the entryway.

Brian returned to school Saturday morning, and this is where I made today’s photo. I was back at the train depot twelve hours later to pick up Adam. Spring break for both schools were different and neither will have enough time off for Easter to come home. We are considering go to Vermont and Brian will meet us there. I can’t image Easter without the boys.

Today’s photo was made with the Canon G10 and processed with ARC.

One

This is the second time I've made photos of this door and number. I'm still not sure it's the best I can do with it. I always wanted to do a series of one to one hundred in photographs.

Made with the Canon G10 and Photoshop ACR in Southampton village.

One of six

 

Today's photo is one of the six different succulents my wife brought home from California. While it snowed yesterday, I sat by the window, next to the six small flower pots, wondering who wanted the warmer weather more; me or them.

I accidentally left my G10 in the car, and condensation had formed on the lens. I made a photo anyway.

In the days of film, when I needed a soft focus filter I would breath on my lens. It always worked for a frame or two. The only problem was the difficulty in getting the same look twice. Today, a lot of image editing software programs offer some kind of soft focus or blur effect. Not that I don't have a lot of hot air to spare.

After the lens cleared, I made the photo I had in mind.

lights in the trees

 

I like moving the camera during the exposure. These holiday lights decorate a parking lot at a catering hall I was at a few nights ago. I made a couple of straight exposures and then I made this one. I processed it with Photomatix Tone Mapping program. The added contrast help make the blurred orange lights look like scratches...or I've been looking at this too long and it looks nothing like scratches.

I used the Canon G10.

Candy Coated Building

Tired, that sums it up. I'm tired. I spent the better part of the day filing photographs, checking descriptions and ids and archiving the disks. Tonight I was the photographer for a political fundraiser for a candidate. I'd love to have a beer right about now, but I'm just too tired to get up and open one.

Today's photo was made Thursday in Hempstead, NY. I wasn't happy with the photo at all. When I first saw this colorful building, it was from the other side of a busy street and it looked good. When I went back to photograph it later in the morning the light wasn't the same. I keep telling myself now is the time, if you see something stop and photograph it now. Everything will be different later. I've been burned before, and I should have learned.

      This is the door and part of the wall, after processing it with Photomatix Tone Mapping program. I used the Canon G10. It's like a candy coating.

Driving Through The Pine Barrens

 

Driving home today I realized I didn't have anything to post today. So I thought I'd make a photo of the pine barrens. I know I've mentioned this part of my journey in other blog posts. This is the water shed area for Long Island. Rain water is filtered through the hundreds of acres of undeveloped pine barrens and becomes our drinking water. This is the reason it stays undeveloped.

A few years ago, while taking Brian up to Potsdam for school, we passed the building of a wind farm in Clinton County New York. The windmills were build on farm lands. To me, they looked awesome.

I often wonder why they can't build windmills in the pine barrens. I can't believe it would effect the ground water.

I used the Canon G10 and processed it with Photoshop.

 

Sneaky Sasha

 

Today was gray and it snowed all day. It's still snowing. I'm tired of snow.

Today's photos of Sasha were made Sunday. She likes to watch the birds from the bathroom window. It's the closest window to the bird feeder. She's never been outdoors, but I think she has an idea of where she'd head off to the moment she gets out. She's a sneak, like most cats I guess. I didn't know which photo I liked more, so I posted both. Made with the Canon G10 and processed with photoshop.

Ice Thursday

Yesterday's snow had a coat of ice over it that lasted all day. It made shoveling easier. Every thing was iced over. I made a few photos before I shoveled the driveway. These were made with the Canon G10 and processed in Photoshop.