Tag: PC Nikkor 19mm f/4E ED

  • Recovery at the State Hospital

    Recovery at the State Hospital

    One of the more interesting places I visited in Traverse City, Michigan, is the site of the old Traverse City State Hospital (originally known as the Northern Michigan Asylum) which operated for over a century from 1885 until 1989. After sitting abandoned for over a decade, the site began to be redeveloped into the Village

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  • Damme Town!

    Damme Town!

    After a long walk along the canals, we reached the little town of Damme proper. There were quite a few nice doors decorated for Christmas, but since we are now in the back half of February, I decided to forgo showing any Belgian holiday decorations. The image above was a little bit of a surprise

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  • The New Hampshire Challenge

    The New Hampshire Challenge

    I have alluded to this in the previous two posts, but there was a distinct challenge during my one-day New Hampshire photographic marathon: so many trees with so many colors. Unlike the forests in the Western US where evergreen trees dominate, in New Hampshire the deciduous trees hold the overwhelming majority. When confronted with the

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  • It Fell Over Boulder Falls

    It Fell Over Boulder Falls

    A long-time friend, Erik, visited from Massachusetts last weekend. Over the years, we have been on a number of notable photographic adventures, including exploring Ragged Top in the Ironwood Forest National Monument northwest of Tucson. (That’s a very old post, so I apologize for it’s different look and feel; beautifying the prehistoric posts on this

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  • San Juan River

    San Juan River

    As mentioned last week, my intent is to wrap up the Vancouver Island forests this week and then move on to a couple beaches we visited. This week’s post is about a campground we visited along the San Juan River. As usual for this Vancouver trip, there was a lot to photograph and it took

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  • Coupeville

    Coupeville

    Coupeville is in Washington, not Portugal, so as promised last week this is a post-Iberian post. During the photo workshop on Whidbey Island last fall, we made several visits to the area by the Coupeville pier, both morning and evening. It was definitely pretty, but I would not say that it was an easy place

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  • Portugal a Posteriori

    Portugal a Posteriori

    Well, this is the twelfth and final post about my trip to Portugal’s Silver Coast. I figured that this was a good chance to sneak in a few pictures that I didn’t have space for the last few weeks. The first three are all architectural images using the PC Nikkor 19mm f/4E ED wide-angle tilt-shift

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  • Wet Feet at the Beach

    Wet Feet at the Beach

    Our group ended its first full day of photography on a beach north of Nazaré. As with every beach we visited on this trip—and there were quite a few—there were a nice variety of rocks and cliffs to photograph. I took over 50 images of the group of rocks above, trying to get different patterns

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  • Reuble Farm

    Reuble Farm

    During the photography workshop on Whidbey Island, every morning each participant would show the group a half dozen images from the day before. Since we generally weren’t all taking pictures together, sometimes this resulted in “Ooh. Where was that?” moments. That is how I discovered Reuble Farm. After learning of its existence, several of us

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  • Rhododendron(less) Park

    Rhododendron(less) Park

    Since Rhododendrons bloom in May and June, there weren’t any in evidence during my September morning visit to Rhododendron Park on Whidbey Island. Even so, it was a beautiful little park with scattered campgrounds. Since much of Whidbey Island is covered in small farms, this densely wooded area added some nice variety to my photographs

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