I get to have the best days with my nephew Rhys. While I am not home often, when I am home for more than a weekend I make an effort to do a day of photo adventure with him. These are (mostly) taken by him – a few, maybe, by his dad, my brother, Lee.
Saturday Adventure with Rhys–10-19-2019
October 22, 2019
Castle In the Clouds and Littleton–10-11-2019
October 14, 2019
Jules said “no heights” which is limiting if you are in the White Mountains, but I made due!
If you are ever in NH, this is a great place to go – gives you a wicked sense of what life as a super duper rich person is like.
Then we hung out in Littleton, did the river walk and waited for the sun to set – worth it!
We took off to NH for a few days because I wanted Jules to see where I’ve been working for the better part of a year!
We didn’t stop much, but when we did it was gorgeous!
I dragged her to The Flume, we had a nice walk and took some great pictures.
We also drove down the Kanc and then up Crawford Notch.
Then one of the best sunsets I’ve seen in a while happened. Overall, a great day!
First off – thank you Nick for leading the way! You made a dream come true last week, you rock!
We started out before the sun kissed the horizon. The train of ppl grew as we moved closer to the area we were heading too. A big old Grand Isle/Madawaska caravan! With several stops.
The walk is relatively short, the drive is not! Worth every moment of it though!
It’s fascinating to walk into the clearing and see these monsters of metal. And to think of the track laid down, and upkept for all those years.
Awe inspiring.
‘nuff said.
I blew out the background on some photos to get better detail of the trains. And in some instances, it was hard getting the trains without someone crawling all over them! Yet, still so much fun!
The colors were great that day as well, and yes, I brought Arrow with me!
Then another short hike to another section of the ghost trains and more phenomenal pictures.
I snagged a few in B/W as well as graded them later in lightroom. I sometimes think B/W brings out more detail and also gives you that “back in time” feel.
Then the drive back home, and the day was over. 4 hours there, 4 hours back, about an hour at the trains and all these pictures and good memories to show for it!
Balloon Festival Re-Visted
October 6, 2019
Sometimes you take a set of photos and are just “not happy” with them. This is what happened when I was in New Mexico a few years ago (4!). I didn’t, at the time, have lightroom. I have over 300 gigs of photos so going thru every single set is – near impossible. This was a set that I wanted to give another shot.
10-04-19–FALL CHALLENGE~
October 4, 2019
Hey, guess what – it’s Fall!
That’s right, winter is coming……
Don’t shoot the messenger. My friend, Shell and I have these bi-monthly challenges going and of course, I hit up fall for this one. It is October!
We are allowed 5 photos (I do have honorable mentions this time around)
I was coming back from Maine, when I decided to go off the GPS path – and I spotted his in the water. It’s a mini rock island, with a flag and a brilliant tree. Took me a few shots to get the reflection “just” right.
I drove through Groveton my way to the hike that didn’t happen – and this is a bridge one of my former pts has often said “I’m going to go live under my bridge”. I did show her this picture and she agreed that it captured the bridge in its full glory of fall.
I did a turn around when I saw this old barn and this wonderfully full color tree growing in front of it.
I saw THREE bridges on my hike that never happened – this was the 1st. Nothing spectacular, a one lane covered bridge. It was the clear water under it that I wanted to capture. After popping on my boots, slogging through wet underbrush – I snagged a few red and orange leaves on the shore and some clouds doing a build up to the rain that would eventually wash out my hike.
The last on my list is from my walk at The Dells – every time I go there I get a few great snaps.
The sun was coming down, the leaves at the Dells are more yellow than bright red and orange. I thought this captured the spirit of the Dells.
Honorable mentions are below.
Winter is coming folks! Enjoy the last of the fall.
If you want to explore my friend, Shell’s blog – here is the link! https://inmyeyesview.photo.blog/
Grafton Notch–NOT!–09-28-2019
September 29, 2019
Sunday I decided to head to Grafton Notch in Maine. Found a shorter trail, looked up the weather (no rain until 5pm) we are good to go!
Firs stop – a bridge! With just enough color for it to make for a good picture.
Next stop – another bridge! This one in Groveton! The sky was crazy! The light was weird, but it still made for some good photos!
Then I stopped in Stark and look, another bridge! I find it odd that the church seemed to have horns – just saying.
And more color and one really cool flag planted in the middle of the water and a great reflection.
