Maryland
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the easy silence you make for me
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Landscape inspired from Maryland’s Point Lookout area by the Chesapeake Bay area. / Acrylic and oil pastel. 32”X60” on canvas
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Featured in You Big SOFTY October 29, 2009. / Second Place in the “Landscapes” challenge in You Big SOFTY October 28, 2009. / Top Ten in the “I’ll Take You There” challenge in A Place To Call Home October 11, 2009. / Featured in Amazing Orton Effect October 9, 2009. / Third Place in “The HDR Landscape Challenge” in HDR Photography September 30, 2009. / Featured Photo in Live and Let Live September 26, 2009. / Featured Photo in Your Magic Place September 26, 2009. / Featured Photo in HDR Photography September 25, 2009. / Featured Photo in PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY September 24, 2009. / Featured Photo in Forests September 8, 2008. Image taken in the Brighton Azalea Gardens in Montgomery County, Maryland with the Nikon D40x and the 18-135mm Nikon lens on May 3, 2008. Post work included hdr from a single hand held image, duplicated to +3, 0, -1 and -2 in Photoshop and HDR processed in Photomatix. Final image then Photoshopped with the Orton technique. Some dodging and burning followed. The Brighton Azalea Gardens in Brookeville, Maryland, is a member of the Maryland National Capitol Park and Planning Commission properties and was established in 1950. It is recognized as one of suburban Maryland’s springtime showcases, the gardens display more than 22,000 azaleas and other plants. Overlooks the Tridelphia Reservoir.
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From very back to front: 1) Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Bridge (ruin) / 2) Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge (Amtrak ; freight Norfolk Southern) / 3) Perryville Railroad Bridge (CSX RR Bridge) / 4) Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge (Toll Bridge) / 5) Millard E. Tydings Memorial Bridge (Interstate 95) This is the Upper Chesapeake area where the river meets up with the Bay. /
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The Black Walnut under Tropical Storm Hanna skies, enhanced and re-worked with Corel PSP. /
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Featured in Neighborhoods April 18, 2009. / Featured in Dilapidated Buildings March 23, 2009. BEST VIEWED FULL SIZE! Took the long way home from the grocery store again yesterday evening and went by this lovely old barn. As the shadows grew long, I noticed the light was doing that magical thing it sometimes does. So glad I had my camera!!! Image taken on March 7, 2009 with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens. Shutter 1/640, aperture f/5.3, exposure -0.33, iso 400. Post processing included removal of some power lines in Photoshop and a trip to Photomatix.
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Featured in All the Colors of the Rainbow October 13, 2009. / Featured in Friends of Bangor and North Down Camera Club, Northern Ireland June 22, 2009. / Top Ten in Neighborhoods “Parks” challenge May 9, 2009. / Featured in Rhododendrons April 10, 2009. / Featured in Forests April 8, 2009. / Featured in Rural Around The Globe April 3, 2009. / Chosen as April Avatar for Nirvana April 1, 2009. / Featured in Peace, Love & Tranquility March 28, 2009. BEST VIEWED LARGE! This image was taken at the Brighton Azalea Gardens in Montgomery County Maryland in May of 2008. Between the trees you can see Triadelphia Lake, beneath which lay the remains of the Town of Triadelphia. A little history of Triadelphia, copied from the Sandy Spring Museum’s website follows: Born of the Patuxent River and then destroyed by it, the mill town Triadelphia knew years of glory as a leading Maryland industrial center. Triadelphia (“three brothers”) was founded in 1809 by brothers-in-law Thomas Moore, Isaac Briggs, and Caleb Bentley, who married Brooke sisters. Its water wheels powered a cotton spinning mill with six carding engines and 444 spindles, a sawmill, grist mill, and mill for grinding bone and plaster. Around the mills sprang up a structured little city: smithy, cooperage, wheelwright shop, stables, church, cotton factory, company store, post office, cabinet shop, orchard, garden area, meat house, lime kiln, school house, Odd Fellows Hall, 15 detached houses and 11 double houses. Triadelphia’s golden years came after 1840, when Thomas Lansdale took over the factory and mills. The town throbbed with 400 people. Straining eight-horse teams brought wagonloads of raw cotton and supplies from Baltimore and returned laden with muslin, products of the grist mill, and cotton duck for making ship sails. Then came a train of disasters. The Civil War strangled the flow of southern cotton. An 1868 flood swept away houses. The end came in the 1889 deluge that also caused the Johnstown flood. Richard H. Lansdale, a grandson of Thomas and future miller, recalled walking as a child away from the wrecked town with a pillow under one arm and a chicken under the other. Today Triadelphia’s foundations slumber beneath the reservoir that bears its name. Image taken with the Nikon D40x and the 18-135mm lens. Post processing included Photoshop and hdr in Photomatix then back to Photoshop for slight Orton.
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Featured in Trees June 12, 2009. / Featured in Rhododendrons May 24, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size Image taken at the Brighton Azalea Gardens in Brookeville, Maryland, May 13, 2009. This park is a member of the Maryland National Capitol Park and Planning Commission properties and was established in 1950. It is recognized as one of suburban Maryland’s springtime showcases, the gardens display more than 22,000 azaleas and other plants. Overlooks the Tridelphia Reservoir. Image taken with the Nikon D40x with the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens and the cp filter. Hand held. Post processing included hdr in Photomatix with a single image, +/-2 eval, and into Photoshop for a light Orton.
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Baltimore, Maryland
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Featured in Nikon D40 (x) June 14, 2009. / Featured in _Image Writing (2/24) June 7, 2009. / Featured in _Rustic June 3, 2009. / Featured in The Sisterhood June 3, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size Our rural heritage of small family-owned farms is teetering on the edge of extinction, so they tell us, and as I drive the haunts of my childhood the visions of what were commonplace years back are slowly falling into disuse and disrepair, or worse, being replaced by subdivisions. It’s always a joy to discover another one … no matter what condition it’s in. Image take in Davidsonville, Maryland on May 21, 2009 with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon/Nikkor lens with the cp filter. Post processing lncluded hdr from a single hand-held image at +/- 2 eval, no tripod. Sky darkened in Photoshop.
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Third Place in the “Landscapes in Thirds” challenge in Photography – Rule of Thirds October 28, 2009. / Featured in The Red Barn August 22, 2009. / Featured on the Red Bubble Home Page August 14, 2009. yay! / Featured in United States June 14, 2009. / Featured in Dilapidated Buildings June 13, 2009. / Featured in The Red Barn June 12, 2009. / Featured in Country Bumpkin June 12, 2009. / Featured in Graphic Editing 101 June 12, 2009. / Featured in Unconventional Artistry June 11, 2009. Much Better Full Size! I love it when the titles I think up can work as double entendres. In this case this gorgeous empty barn … and the farm itself, I guess … do seem to be Finished … cloned off to the left rear is a housing development. It could also refer to the job of plowing and seeding … which, unless these are weeds (are they?) is Finished. But the title also refers to the fact that I’ve mucked around with this shot so much … and it has so many names in my computer (I tend to try to include what processes I used on a shot in its name) ... that last night when I did this version, the only thing I put to the end of the loooooong image name … was … “Finished.” And so, it stuck!! Original image taken just up the road from our house on April 6 of ‘09 in Montgomery County, Maryland, with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon/Nikkor lens. Photoshop cloning out of distractions and 2 duplicates created, Photomatix HDR from a single, hand-held image, dups at -/+2 eval, Photoshop for the addition of a texture, then into Paint for some blending.
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Featured in Light In The Darkness June 22, 2009. / Featured in Imaginative Realism June 21, 2009. / Featured in Animal Fantasy Composites June 20, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size An adorable little Barred Owl resting and recuperating at the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental Education Center near Olney, Maryland. It’s my understanding that hurt or sick wildlife is treated there and, whenever possible, released back to the wild. I’ve spent many an hour here chaperoning my son’s field trips and always enjoyed the visit very much. Image taken with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon/Nikkor lens. Shutter at 1/3, aperture f/5.6, exp 0.00, iso 400. Texture Courtesy of Princess of Shadows – Deviant Art
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Featured in You Big Softy October 17, 2009. / Top Ten in the “Soft Focus” challenge in You Big Softy October 17, 2009. / Featured in Cottage Style July 22, 2009. New Market Maryland, off of Route 70, east of Frederick, is a quaint, old-fashioned town which has made its name locally as a great place to spend the day antiquing. I came across this lovely setting behind one of the shops. Image taken with the Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens on July 19, 2009. Shutter speed 1/200, aperture f7.1, iso 500. Post processing included hdr from a single hand-held image and Orton in Photoshop.
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Top Ten in the “Cottage Window Boxes” challenge in Cottage Style September 29, 2009. / Featured in Communities August 9, 2009. Best Viewed Large I’ve always been attracted to window boxes overflowing with colorful flowers. As I walked along the brick-paved sidewalks of New Market, Maryland, a few weeks ago, this lovely home in the historic section caught my eye. Image taken July 19, 2009 with the Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens. Shutter 1/500, aperture f/11.0, exp. 0.00, iso 1600. Post processing included HDR from a single hand-held image in Photomatix, some hand painting in Corel Paint 11, and a bit of tweaking in Photoshop.
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Featured in Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art October 25, 2009. / Featured in Weekly Theme Challenges October 1, 2009. Best on Full Size Another butterfly shot from my garden … image taken at dusk July 21, 2009 with the Nikon D300 and the 70-300mm vr Nikon lens. Shutter 1/200, aperture f/11.0, exp. -.67, iso 400. Image taken in Montgomery County, Maryland. Post work in Photoshop included levels and cleaning up of the petals … since I don’t use pesticides the Japanese Beetles and a few others do some pretty serious munching.
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Featured in Live and Let Live August 7, 2009. This adorable little structure is at the entrance of a lovely community along route 97 in Howard County, Maryland. It is directly across the road from Hope Not Forsaken. “The Gatehouse” was taken on July 19, 2009 with the Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens in RAW/NEFF format. Shutter speed was 1/250, aperture f/9.0, exp .33, iso 400. It was duplicated twice in Photoshop to evals of +/ 2 and processed in Photomatix for hdr. Returned to Photoshop for a light Orton Technique.
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On a recent business trip to the east coast, I photographed a rarity for me….the sun RISING over the ocean.
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Featured in You’re Accepted August 17, 2009. / Featured in Best From Around The Barnyard August 16, 2009. / Featured in Old Things – Two Per Day August 15, 2009. Another capture of a lovely old barn not from from my home in Montgomery County, Maryland. We’ve had another remarkably wet summer … we don’t often see greens like this in July and August!!! Hand held mage taken in the early evening of July 9, 2009 with the Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens. Shutter 1/250, aperture f/8.0, exp .33, iso 500. Two duplicates created in Photoshop to +1/-3 then processed in Photomatix to create this hdr image. A little tweaking in Painter for blending. Levels, dodging and burning in Photoshop. The Simple Life
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Outside the Domino sugar building in Baltimore Maryland.
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Second Place in the “Houses of Worship” challenge in The World As We See It, or as we missed it November 17, 2009. / Featured in The World As We See It , or as we missed it November 12, 2009. / Top Ten in “Sunday Morning” challenge in Mood & Ambience October 18, 2009. / Featured in Live and Let Live September 22, 2009. / Featured in ! # 1 Artists of RedBubble! September 22, 2009. Best seen on full size This sweet little church, at the corner of Triadelphia and Sharp Roads in Glenelg, Maryland, stands empty. Probably built around 1900, it was most recently used as the home and studio of a local artist who has since gone to live in the sunnier climate of Mexico. Happily, the congregation of this beautiful little chapel didn’t die out, as so often happens, but instead grew too large for this structure and built a much larger church not far down the road. I was quite excited to have the opportunity to tour here July 26, 2009 when the realtor was holding an open house, as I’d driven past many times and had always wanted to investigate!! Image taken with the handheld Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens, shutter 1/250, aperture f/8.0, exp -.33, iso 500. Post work included hdr from 4 images at +3, +1, 0 and -2 evals … all duplicated and adjusted in Photoshop. Subsequent Orton technique was applied in PS, as were three textures at various blendings, and the brushed-in clouds. Included below is a capture of one of the windows in which, if you look carefully, you can see a reflection of the church bell … / which was directly behind me as I shot the window … My thanks to Princess of Shadows on Deviant Art and Ghostbones of Flickr for the great textures and to Obsidian Dawn for the cloud brushes.
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Featured in The Grunge Art Gallery October 17, 2009. / Featured in Playful Photogenic Animals October 11, 2009. / Featured in Blur September 30, 2009. / Featured in Dimensions September 30, 2009. / Featured in The Woman Photographer September 28, 2009 / Featured in DSLR Users Only 1/24 September 27, 2009. / Featured in ! # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE! September 27, 2009. Looks Best on Full Size Poor little mite!!!!! A dark eyed junco hanging on to the slender branches of our river birch for all he’s worth on a gusty, blowy March afternoon. March 2nd, 2009 to be exact … as they say, March does come in like a lion around here!!! I don’t have the heart to tell the little darling that winter is coming again soon!!!! Taken with the Nikon D40x and the 70-300mm vr Nikon lens at 1/400 shutter and f/5.6 aperture, exp +.33, focal length 300mm and iso 400. Single handheld image duplicated 3 times in Photoshop to evals of +3, 0, -1 and -2 then processed in Photomatix Pro. By the way, everyone, fyi, there’s an update to Photomatix!!! Thank you again, Karl Williams for the info!!!!! Two textures added amid a flurry of dodging and burning and tinkering!! The Dark-Eyed Junco / “Dark-eyed Junco: Medium sparrow with considerable geographic color variation, although all exhibit a pink bill, dark eyes, white belly, dark-centered tail with white outer feathers. Short flight with white outer tail feathers flashing, alternates several rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides. / Interesting Facts: / The Dark-eyed Junco was the most common feeder bird in North America during the 1996-1997 Project FeederWatch season. / They mainly eat insects and seeds. However, they will sometimes eat their own droppings. / A flash of white tail feathers serves as an alarm to other members of the flock. / A group of sparrows has many collective nouns, including a “crew”, “flutter”, “meinie”, “quarrel”, and “ubiquity” of sparrows.” / Thank you WhatBird.com for the info!! Textures courtesy of Princess of Shadows on Deviant Art and Ghostbones on Flickr.
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Featured in The Woman Photographer October 28, 2009. / Featured in ! # 1 Artists of Redbubble October 27, 2009. Best on Full Size It’s a perfect autumn day … let’s go for a picnic!!! I’ve got the dogs and the camera equipment … did you bring the fried chicken and potato salad?? Image taken at Triadelphia Reservoir off of Route 97 in Montgomery County, Maryland, October 26, 2009. Nikon D300 with the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens; UV and CP filters; hand held, shutter 1/100, aperture f/10.0, exp.0.00, iso 500. Post processing included hdr at +/- 2 evals in Photomatix from a single hand held image. A very faint amount of texture layer added in Photoshop. Thanks to Princess of Shadows at Deviant Art for the texture.
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Best on Full Size it really is When I first began taking photography seriously … and believe me, as much as I joke around, I do take it seriously … someone gave me a wonderful bit of advice: “always turn around.” And in the case of this particular image, it couldn’t have been more wise. I had been chasing the “sunlight-through-autumn leaves” look all that afternoon … and without a whole lot of success, I might add. At one point, I happened to glance back over my shoulder and snap this image … and a couple more for good measure, of course. But it wasn’t until I got home and loaded it up that I realized how much I liked it. Hope you do too. Image taken off of Church Road, Howard County, Maryland. Handheld image taken with the Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens, uv filter … not sure if the cp filter was on or not. Shutter 1/250, aperture f/8.0, exp. -0.33, iso 320. Cloning of evil telephone pole and wires then off to Photomatix with three images at +/-2 evals, then back to Photoshop for a light, light Orton and a hint of texture.
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Best on Full Size It was a VERY great honor and pleasure for my Dear Hubby and me to spend Saturday, November with 21 in the company of Mike Rucci , BigD , and Lori Deiter at the Conowingo Dam in Maryland. Thank you so much, Mike, for encouraging us to visit here … and thanks to all three of you for your wonderful friendship and all the laughs and for putting up with my little-girl squeals of delight!!! I don’t think I’ve been that excited since I was a kid!!!!!! Bald Eagle image taken with the Nikon D300 and the 70-300mm vr Nikon lens, Manfrotto tripod mounted (possibly?), at shutter speed 1/2500, ap f/8.0, focal dist 300mm, exp -.33, iso 400. Image cropped then treated to a light HDR in Photomatix at +/- 2 evals created in Photoshop. Light texture added. Texture courtesy of SkeletalMess at Flickr.
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