One of several tunnels around the Pittsburgh area. If I remember correctly, this is the Ft. Pitt Tunnel. © Dyle Warren 2007 Featured on the Redbubble Art Page Equipment: / Nikon D200 / 18-200mm Nikkor Lens Settings: Focal Length: 18mm / Exposure Time: 1/5 sec / F-Number: F/3.5 / ISO – 125 / No Flash Auto Vehicle Mode: / Headlights On / Approx. 50mph
Featured in Nikon D40 (x) Users June 22, 2009. / Featured in Nostalgic Art and Photography May 19, 2009. / Featured in First Things May 16, 2009. / Featured in A Beautiful Blur May 15, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size I discovered this wonderful antique bike at the Juniata Crossing Mercantile on Route 30, near Breezewood PA on May 10, 2009, and couldn’t resist the image. Used the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens, cp filter was probably still on. Post processing included a trip to Photoshop for removal of distractions, then to Photomatix for hdr (hand held camera, single image +/-2), then back to Photoshop for a light Orton and other final tweaking.
Featured in Sets of Two January 25, 2009. / Featured in AMERICAS ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free – Expressions of Artists January 25, 2009. / Featured in Landscape Photography January 21, 2009. / Featured in the Nikon DSLR Users Group January 21, 2009. The snow last weekend was almost continual but light … creating an amazing, fantasy land of subtle color and soft light. As I shot this particular image, the sun was just appearing across the lake on the trees in the distance. It played hide and seek the whole time I was out. Fortunately, the winds were calm … so the branches were filled with snow. Image taken Tuesday, January 20, 2009 with the Nikon D40x, using the 18-200mm VR lens, with cp filter in Claysburg, PA … Blue Knob Mountain. Companion Piece Here Comes The Sun /
Featured in Abandoned Dark Creepy May 20, 2009. / Winner of the “Abandoned Extreme” Challenge in Abandoned Dark Creepy group May 14, 2009. / Featured in The Keystone State – Pennsylvania May 14, 2009. / Top Ten in the “Apocalypse” challenge in First Things May 11, 2009. / Top Ten in the “Eerie and Enchanting Work With A Kick” challenge in First Things May 10, 2009. / Top Ten in the “Dilapidated Houses & Buildings” challenge in Neighborhoods May 4, 2009. / Featured in Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits May 2, 2009. / Featured in Digital Art Compilations April 26, 2009. / Featured in HDR Photography April 25, 2009. / Featured in The Red Barn April 19, 2009. / Featured in Dilapidated Buildings April 14, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size I found this barn along Route 30 between Breezewood and Bedford in PA. When I first saw it only a couple of years ago, parts were still being used for hay storage. But when I drove past recently, March 15, 2009, it was clear I was looking at something that won’t be around much longer. I don’t know the history, but directly across the road had been a very interesting, 2-story log house that is gone now, as well. Only the brick fireplaces and a pile of rubble remain. Image taken with the Nikon D40x using the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens, handheld. This is a composite image … I used a threatening sky that I shot in my backyard at the end of March, ‘09. Post processed for the sky composite addition, then, using a single image which I duplicated twice at 2 +/- eval in Photoshop, I created the hdr in Photomatix. Back to Photoshop for some more clean up work. All together, probably about 7 layers.
Self-Portrait
Featured in Nostalgic Art and Photography June 3, 2009. / Featured in Cottage Style May 22, 2009. / Featured in Rural Around The Globe May 19, 2009. / Featured in Postcard Style May 18, 2009. / Featured in A Place To Call Home May 15, 2009. / Featured in Cards: Best Of Your Best May 15, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size. Another image taken at the Juniata Crossing Mercantile on May 10, 2009. Image taken with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens. Post processing included Photoshop cloning of a distraction, then into Photomatix for hdr (single image, hand held, +/- 2) then back to Photoshop for a light Orton. Then into Corel Paint 11 for some work with the blender and oils brushes, then back to Ph!toshop for the glowing light bulbs with one of Obsidian Dawn’s brushes, then to I-photo for the edge blur. Obsidian Dawn
Featured in Nikon D40 (x) Users June 29, 2009. / Featured in Photography 101 April 6, 2009. / Top Ten in Photography 101’s “Breaking The Rules IV: Horizons” Challenge April 5, 2009. / Featured in Bubbler’s Weekly Challenge January 12, 2009. / Placed in TOP TEN in Bubbler’s Weekly Challenge “The Color White” January 12, 2009. / Featured in AMERICAS ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free – Expressions of Artists Group January 5, 2009. / Featured in Seasonal Scapes January 4, 2009. / Featured in Rural Around the Globe December 30, 2008. / Featured in Image Writing December 24, 2008. / Featured in My Neighborhood December 23, 2008. / Featured in Mood & Ambience – Strictly Photos December 22, 2008. When we arrived at the mountain on Friday afternoon, the temperatures were hovering at slightly above freezing and the icing on the trees and the roads was trying to decide if it wanted to refreeze or not. The winds came up … and the power to the cabin was out. It was going to be a c-c-c-coooold night if the power company couldn’t get up the mountain!! But we underestimated Valley Rural Electric … those brave darlings had our power back on within a short while, and life was good. For about 2 hours. Then just as my son was arriving and driving down our road there was a POP and a blinding flash and we were again plunged into darkness. The powerful power guys were back on the scene quickly and by the time we got back to the house after having dinner out, the electric was back and stayed back. Saturday was windy and gray with a little snow toward evening. Sunday morning broke bright and beautiful, as you see it!!! I hope you enjoy our view!!!! Now, go grab some hot cocoa (drinking chocolate to our British friends), crank up this tune … then come back and enjoy the rest of my winter-wonderland!!!!! TransSiberian Orchestra Taken from the deck at our ski cabin on Blue Knob in Claysburg PA December 21, 2008. I was using the Nikon D40x with the 18-135mm lens and the polarizer. Only levels and some shadows and highlights touched.
Featured in the group Nirvana January 16, 2009. Image taken with the Nikon D40x, using the 18-200mm VR Nikkor lens and the cp filter on January 3, 2009. This shot was taken along 689, near Osterburg PA. I used PhotoMatix to create this HDR image. Sweet, Sweet Surrender “Lost and alone on some forgotten highway / Travelled by many remembered by few / Lookin’ for something that I can believe in / Lookin’ for something that I’d like to do with my life There’s nothin’ behind me and nothin’ that ties me / To somethin’ that might have been true yesterday / Tomorrow is open and right now it seems to be more / Than enough to just be there today And I don’t know what the future is holdin’ in store / I don’t know where I’m goin’, I’m not sure where i’ve been / There’s a spirit that guides me, a light that shines for me / My life is worth the livin’, don’t need to see the end Sweet, sweet surrender / Live, live without care / Like a fish in the water / Like a bird in the air” John Denver Sweet Surrender Driving through the countryside Saturday, January 3rd, I deliberately took a wrong turn and passed by this beautiful farm. The words to John Denver’s song, one of my all-time favorites, filled my heart. Click on the link to listen … then come back and visit with me a bit!!!
Featured in Rural America November 1, 2008. / Featured in A Beautiful Blur October 3, 2008. Taken 9/20/08 on top of Blue Knob in Claysburg, Bedford County, PA. My camera is a Nikon D40x, and I was using my 18-135mm lens. Other than a bit of sharpening and the removal of the distracting arm of a snowmaker, it’s as the camera’s lens saw it.
Winner of the “July Avatar – Country Garden” challenge in Backyard Photography June 29, 2009. / Featured in Spring in the North-East USA June 18, 2009. / Featured in Cottage Style June 17, 2009. / Featured in Nostalgic Art and Photography June 17, 2009. / Featured in Nikon D40 (x) June 14, 2009. / Featured in A Garden Somewhere June 13, 2009. / Featured in Your Magic Place June 13, 2009. Best Viewed Large Another in the series from the Juniata Crossing Mercantile on Route 30, near Breezewood PA. Image taken on May 10, 2009 with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon/Nikkor lens and the cp filter. Post processing included hdr in Photomatix from a single hand held image, duplicated four times in Photoshop to an eval of +/- 1 3/4 each, then into Photoshop for Orton and the addition of a few more flowers. I-Photo for edge blur.
I was transfixed when I saw this breathtaking scene last evening near my place in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania on November 21, 2008. Early winter snows are always the best! Taken with a Canon Digital Rebel EOS Xsi. / / /
6/2/09 ~ Featured in The Woman Photographer ~ thank you sooooo much!! 5/22/09 ~ Featured in the Color and Light Group ~ Thank you very much!!!!! Dawn at Clarks Creek was so beautiful after a cool Clarks Valley night. The warmth of the morning sun and temperature change created a mist that added a mysterious mood to the sunrise. Natural light and color. Taken 5/21/09, Clarks Creek at the mouth of the Dehart Dam, near Tower City, PA DAWN AT CLARKS CREEK /
. / . / Top Ten in The Keystone Group – Pennsylvania’s Challenge “Fall Colors of Pennsylvania” November 1, 2008 / Featured in Falling Leaves October 31, 2008 / Featured in Rural America October 28, 2008. This image was taken on November 3, 2007 on the road from Pavia to Blue Knob Ski Resort in Claysburg, PA. This is one of the first I took with the then-new Nikon D40x, and was using the 18-135mm lens. Post processing included a very slight Orton effect. Also available without Orton: / Obsidian Dawn
The path to faith ….. the bridge to somewhere ….. Taken with Nikon D200 and Tokina 12-24mm f/4 lens. HDR processing applied.
Featured in COUNTRY ROADS / Around the World January 23, 2009. / Featured in Country Bumpkin January 23, 2009. / Featured in In Another World January 17, 2009. / Featured in Dimensions January 17, 2009. Companion piece to Winter White .. but with slightly different camera settings and slightly closer to the entrance to the woods. I also monkeyed around with it a bit in PS. The road dips down here rather startlingly, but my little 4-wheel Rav4 made it down like a champ, bless its little heart!! Image taken on January 12, 2009 with the Nikon D40x, using the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens. This was taken on Blue Knob in Claysburg, PA. If you enjoyed this, I’d love for you to visit LynEvans’ image, here, which was my inspiration: A Winter’s Tale
Featured in The Keystone State – Pennsylvania May 14, 2009. / Placed in Top Ten in Snow! Glorious Snow!!’s “Snow Laden Trees” Challenge February 9, 2009. One more in the series of winter shots I took on Blue Knob in Claysburg, PA on January 20th, 2009. There was a lull in the weather activities and the sun tried to come out to play. Who knew something other than blue skies and billowing clouds could be such fun??? Taken with the Nikon D40x with the 18-200mm VR lens. Some horseplay in Photoshop to clone off the snowflakes that got on the lens. MUST remember to hook that lens hood on the thing one of these days!!!! LOL!!!
Taken on November 23, 2008 near Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania with my Canon Digital Rebel EOS XSi. I couldn’t help but be transfixed with the magnificent and quiet beauty of this natural landscape. / FEATURED ON THE RB HOMEPAGE NOV 2008 / / /
Third Place in the “Out My Window” challenge in That’s Entertainment! June 10, 2009. / Featured in Backyard Photography June 7, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size Image taken on top of Blue Knob Mountain in Claysburg, PA, at dawn on May 8, 2009. The view from our deck. BillFox256 added this wonderful verse from Louise May Alcott with his comment earlier that, with his permission, I’d like to include here for everyone’s enjoyment: “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” Taken with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nkon/Nikkor lens, handheld. Shutter speed 1/25, aperture f/14.0.
Featured in Rural Around The Globe July 4, 2009. / Featured in The Keystone Group – Pennsylvania July 3, 2009. Looks Best Full Size This pretty little stone bridge can be found in the Caledonia State Park in Fayettesville, PA, not far from Chambersburg. This image was taken on the Keystone Group – Pennsylvania ’s group shoot June 27, 2009. We had SO much fun!!!!! Image taken with the Nikon D300 and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens. Shutter 1/250, aperture f/6.3. Post processing included HDR in Photomatix from creation of 2 additional images in Photoshop at an eval of +/- 3 from a single hand-held image after some work with levels and burning and dodging and cloning. Afterward, into Painter 11 for some fun additions, then back to Photoshop for an Orton finishing technique.
Best viewed full size Driving off of the main road of 869 between Pavia and Osterburg, Pennsylvania on January 20, 2009 … a fine snow began to fall. As I climbed the hill the barn to my right caught my attention. After snapping some images of the barn, the resident came out to greet me. What a sweetheart!!!!! Image taken with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon/Nikkor lens. Shutter speed 1/640, aperture f/5.6, exp minus .33, iso 400. This image is a 20-80% blend of the original photo … with some distractions cloned away … and an hdr of the same image … created from the original, hand held, and two duplicates at +/- 2.5 eval.
7/6/09 ~ Top Ten in the Funny Birds challenge – Funny Kritters Group – thank you everyone!! 6/22/09 ~ Featured in I Love Birds – Thank you!!!! 1/7/09 – Featured in The Keystone State – Pennsylvania – Thanks soooo much! 11/5/08 – Featured in “Livestock in General” Don’t mess with this crew!! Taken 7/5/08 at Lake Tobias, Halifax, Pennsylvania / . / Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / F stop: F/4.5 Exposure: 1/400 sec. Focal length: 33.0 mm / Flash: flash did not fire, Shutter speed (Tv): 8.6 / . / THE BARNYARD FAMILY
4/23/09 – selected as Weekly Avatar for Shots in the Fog ~ thank you!!!! 2/7/09 – Top Ten in Trees in the Fog Challenge – Shots in the Fog group. Thank you so much members!!! 12/11/08 – Featured in Sets of Two Thank you!!!! Today the temperature in central PA was unseasonably warm and rainy. The Susquehanna River had a touch of ice flow that created very thick fog along Front Street in Harrisburg and covered City Island. Taken 12/10/08, Harrisburg, PA BRIDGE TO NOWHERE / FOGGY CITY ISLAND /
Patiently waiting on a letter from you …. One of those, “Oh, I’m gonna have to stop the car and take this shot” kind of moments. I love how the two left-most trees almost form an arch. Incidently this road is called Covered Bridge Road and leads to Pennsylvania’s Oldest Covered Bridge built in 1830 RIP John. My art with 1000+ views
Kennett Square, PA – Longwood Gardens – June 2008 – Taken as a handheld HDR, RAW, ISO 400
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