As the temperatures rose last night, my fellow “shutter hubby” and I decided we should hit the street and grab some pictures. The fog was so thick we didn’t need to leave our block to capture some interesting sites. You can see my full SmugMug gallery here. My favorite from the set is actually an…
Category: Photography
Land of Ice and Snow
Today brought the first Winter storm of the season to the Philly area. Overnight it began as snow, but by the time sunrise came the temperature had warmed significantly and the precipitation had turned to rain 1. The end result of this change over in our neighborhood is an inch or so of slush on…
“A” is for Apple
As I stumbled around the kitchen this morning, I saw an interesting glint of light in my peripheral vision. The previous night my wife had brought home a load of fruit 1, and as the morning sunlight reached its auspices the colors really popped. So, after I ground my coffee 2 I went and grabbed…
December Fog
As I strolled toward the parsonage after Portuguese class last night 1 I noticed an amazing glow around the street light on our corner. So I marched inside and grabbed my equipment to see if I could capture the scene in a photograph. I love the many subtleties of this photograph. The glow of the…
Light Trail
Monday night I found myself gazing out of my bedroom window, fascinated by the lights our neighbors had strung along their fence. I’m not typically struck by Christmas lights, and “Christmas over-achievers” tend to frighten me, but I enjoyed the simplicity of their display. A single looped line of lights which followed an arc of…
The Survivor
Each year, on Black Friday, my son bugs my wife about putting up the Christmas Tree. My spouse adores decorating for Christmas so, each year, she complies 1. So in the evening my wife dug the tree and ornaments out of their slumber in the basement and we set the tree up in our living…
