These are some photographs and thoughts from my journeys through life.
These are some photographs from my journeys through life and work.
I was bold and ventured out on a Friday night to see some bands play literally down the street. Firewalker, Pummel, Luxe and some others, was a decent turn out for a show that got the little “Providence” promotion that we in this state are so accustomed too. I took my Sony a7 and Minolta 50mm 1.2 MD as well as a Contax 25mm 2.8 and shot all available light.
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I recently got a 35mm roll of Black and White film developed, these are some of the prints out of that roll which I scanned that have spanned contents and years! The first place I put this roll of film was on a plane heading to France in January 2017, after that trip my camera only had to wait till May of that same year. Much closer to home, Foxboro Massachusetts to see Metallica play! Then over two years later took my now wife (she wasn’t when we went to France, also got a new job too!) a day trip to Martha’s Vineyard August 2019.
Well they say if life gives you lemons to make lemonade… that happened to me recently! After injuring myself, and finally going to get it checked out, I got a doctors note saying no work for a week… that alone is a treat. Add to that the ability to spend a couple of days where I got to marry my wife, well that equalled an amazing and relaxing time. Needing to rest took precedent over activities, I took it pretty much easy not going to far from base camp and doing anything to strenuous, but I did get to take a few photos with the excess of photography equipment I brought with me…I think it out weighted the clothing I brought with me! Here are some of my favorites from that magical extra long weekend!
Well this I think was my favorite place I was able to go with work! Such a cool land, amazing sky and food! I was in this magical land for the Festival of the Cranes, which is a birding event that attracts a lot of birds and birders (which are their own unique breed of people) the event was pretty chill, which was nice for the last one of the year! I was able to go out and explore a good amount, which was very nice. I can’t wait to get back down here or any other place in the south west.
The coolest cairn I've ever seen before, sadly was knocked down on the way back. Hopefully it was just the wind!
It was nice to see some color, it was still pretty green up in Rhode Island at this time. A nice hike with lots of great views.
The half way point of our hike, the water was so very nice. Took off the boots and socks and soaked the feet. It was heavenly!
A little up close of some nature.
Found some great abandoned buildings while in West Virginia as well. Like this old school, with still great windows. The sun was at a perfect location for this photo.
Great light coming through these blinds.
I love finding this survey markers, this was in kind of a weird location, we were heading up a mountain and we pulled of in an overlook, which is where this guy was. However he was at the start of the pull off, someone would of had to walk back to the road to see this.
Such great color!
The closest I have ever got to a beaver dam.
As you can tell we were in the mist/clouds. No awesome views from the observation tower. Looked very much like this.
Another wet day, but that didn't stop us! Blackwater Falls.
Even the poodle toughed out the rain!
Found a creepy abandoned hotel.
phone.
clicker.
Took this on the way home.
Thanks to all. Had a great trip. I am making a weird face but whatever! West Virginia trip October 2017!
So the time of the year to go to Florida (if there is such a time) is definitely not July! We had a wedding to go to and it was great to meet new family members and see some that I haven't in a bit. We were there for several days and each was brutally hot, burnt my back pretty good hunting for shells.
Captiva Island was pretty dark at night without any noise pollution, however there was a lot of cloud cover. We had some bikes to explore the islands and we did so in the morning before it got too hot! So hot that cactuses were able to grow on peoples land and thrive!
Lots of birds, reptiles, and even saw a manatee, didn't get a photo but it was pretty cool to see how many different things were on these populated islands.
At first we thought these little guys were spiders on the mangroves, but they are little crabs, this guy was a foot above my head climbing around.
Natures labyrinth was a great place for all these little creatures to live.
My least favorite thing is the water was so warm, like a bath. I missed my cold New England waters.
The most Florida image I took down there!
Beautiful sunsets on the Gulf of Mexico, with a storm coming in, it was a down pour for a good 20 minutes or so.
Thanks Florida you were fun, I hope I don't see you soon.
A very special thanks to Barb and Greg for the opportunity!
Spent some time in this van, and put some miles on it, over 2,000!!!
May 2017
So for my job, I travel to all over the country and sling camera equipment, it has it perks, like going all over the country, however I do miss my lady and my bed so it's hard to deal with sometimes.
This last trip was the longest one yet. 12 days! It was the Biggest Week in American Birding, some sort of migration pattern in a marshy area in North West Ohio.
I really didn't care much about the birds, I took the opportunity when I had it to wander and explore the area. Gathering plenty of branch images to use later!
Was able to find many old abandoned buildings, several had large animals living inside of them. The opossums (I would assume) sounded like they were like 50 pounds. Thankfully this garage was free of all wildlife, and it had great light coming in the windows!
Beautiful light!
Thankfully the show hours were not too bad, ended at 5:00pm each day so was wrapped up any where from 5:30 to 6:00... and it was light out till about 9:00 so plenty of time to explore!
Another building with more large sounding animals... or this is the one that might of had bats in it? Whatever it was I got out pretty quickly.
Tiny little town, with some great painted brick advertisements...and a Taco Bell.
It was nice having a drive from our hotel to the event each day, gave me the opportunity to look for little things hidden in the landscape.
Hazy hazy morning commute, the one day it was really windy and rainy I felt like I was in the movie Twister, which was kind of cool.
It was an enjoyable trip and I was happy with a lot of the images I got while there. Trip was from May 4th till May 14th, and that Monday commute home was rough, left Ohio 3:00 am got home at 6:30pm.... till the next time!
Gary and me after we had to take everything out of the tent due to a tear from the rain and wind. Photo by Ray Nason
