In July we were heading home from a visit to see family in MA and we stopped for the night in CT. I love to scour Google Maps to find interesting places to stop at to stretch our legs and look around. This is the former Seaside Sanatorium built in the 1930s. It's the first institution designed for heliotropic treatment of children with tuberculosis. Later it became a home for the elderly and then for the mentally disabled. Hopefully they will find a new use for it as it was designed by Cass Gilbert who created the Woolworth Building and the US Supreme Court building to name a few.
River towns along the Susquehanna are a favorite. I made these on Ilford FP4 in 2022 but am just getting around to processing the film.
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Luckily we've had some incredible light lately and I'm able to see amazing things without having to go far.
Here's a few from a solo drive on April 14, 2022.
A few from around Lancaster County.
This time I used a roll of Fujifilm Superia 400 from the 1990's with Kodak D-76.
I scanned the film with an Epson V600 as if it was color film and then some very light editing (mostly dust removal) in Lightroom.
Camera used was my 30 year old Pentax K1000 I bought as a teen.
Locations: Roze Arabians and a few from my yard.
“There is peace even in the storm”
― Vincent van Gogh
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All photos taken on a single day, at home and then from the car and then in Harrisburg, PA.
I used a Pentax K1000 camera that I bought when I was 18 with my first paycheck out of high school.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
― Robert Frost
Even in his woolie winter coat Caden looks beautiful.
“You are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out
its own secret.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
With the Omicron variant going strong here I kept my distance and wore a mask to get a few images.
Manheim, PA
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“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.”― Galileo Galilei
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"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them." ~John Ruskin
Five days old.
Conestoga, Pennsylvania
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
― Rachel Carson
This same tunnel with the Enola Low Grade Line running above but taken by my husband's Great Grandfather, John A. Rineer, in 1919.
The Shenk's Ferry Hotel no longer stands.
Point Pleasant, NJ
― Shunryu Suzuki
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“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Ilford Delta 100 - Canon EOS Rebel 35mm
January 19, 2020
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Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver
Snow Geese Migration - Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area (some tundra swans too)
December 2019.
Ferris Wheel has been included in Don't Take Pictures online show, Dusk to Dawn.
"At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own,
there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour."
~H. P. LOVECRAFT
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There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled.
So much depends on how we look at things.
The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.”
― John O'Donohue
]]>An interesting question to ask yourself at night is,
What did I really see this day?”
― John O'Donohue
"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. "
- Andrew Wyeth
December 2020, first snow of the winter season. Always my favorite.
January 2021
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The crowds of Christmastime are gone and the warm, tropical air in the conservatory makes you feel like you've taken a little vacation.
All of these photos were taken with the Lensbaby 'Sweet 50". A perfect little lens to give that dreamy feel.
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