Category: West Chester

Stroud Preserve Springtime in B&W

Post author By Andrew
Post date May 9, 2013

Some images taken during a recent spring time walk around Stroud Preserve.

All images were shot in ‘traditional’ HDR bracket fashion, and processed into a ‘raw’ combined HDR file.

Normally, I use Adobe Photoshop to do my B&W conversion, but since the Google/Nik Software upgrade, I now had a chance to play with Silver Efex Pro 2.

Which way?

Hay pillows

Trails 02

Fields & Clouds

Trails 01

Trails 03

A pond waterfall

Photoshop is great for doing a straight conversion via the native B&W menu, but to explore other options, quickly, and then build on them, Silver Efex Pro is the answer.

I still used Photoshop to tweak the final files, but I ended up in a different place than I originally envisioned.

So, what do you think?

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2012 Chester County Restaurant Festival

Post author By Andrew
Post date September 16, 2012

A small collection of images taken at the 33rd Annual Chester County Restaurant Festival held in West Chester, Pennsylvania (PA).

2012 Chester County Restaurant Festival - Crowd — 2012 Chester County Restaurant Festival – Crowd

This is a family event, and both Madison and Logan joined me, and as soon as they saw the sign for Funnel Cake, we had to get some!

Then they saw the Popcorn…

My eye was more on the meats being offered…

Various meats on a large grill - Closeup — Various meats on a large grill – Closeup

We also spent some time watching an Artist using spray cans to create various scenes, while bopping to the music.

Spray Paint Artist - Closeup — Spray Paint Artist – Closeup

There where also several bands playing…

Chester County Restaurant Festival - Music — Chester County Restaurant Festival – Music

I love oysters, but it was hard to get the kids to stop and let me get some…

Shocking Oysters - Closeup — Shocking Oysters – Closeup

I also had to take a look at some crab cakes… What a wonderful smell!

We can’t wait for next year!

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Stroud Preserve Selected for Collection

Post author By Andrew
Post date April 22, 2012

I just got an alert from my Flickr mail that the Director of Communications at the Natural Lands Trust, asking for permission to use this image as part of their collection for Stroud Preserve!

Needless to say, I’m very honored by this recognition!

thank you very much for this honor and I look forward to seeing my image on your website!

– Andrew

Update

Since getting this e-mail, I have had the chance to visit both the Binky Lee and ChesLen Preserves with Madison and Logan for our Family Nature Walks! (Unfortunately, Amy can join us because of her allergies!)

Again I am blown away by the fact that I have traveled past both these preserves many a times and never realized they were there, let alone how beautiful they are!

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Tags Binky Preserve, ChesLen Preserve, Chester County, Chester Springs, Coatesville, Facebook, Flickr, Natural Lands Trust, Nature Walk, Photography Collection, Stroud Preserve, West Chester

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22 Images Submitted to Panoramio

Post author By Andrew
Post date June 4, 2011

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It has been several months since I have had a chance to sit down and pull a collection of images to submit to Panoramio for Google Earth.

So this morning, while I was drinking my coffee, I slowly went back through my catalog of images, and pulled together a series of 22 images that I thought would be a good selection for submission, including late Fall, Winter and Spring images from:

Hibernia Park (10/2010 & 4/2011) (Phoenixville)
Stroud Preserve (West Chester)
Abiah Taylor’s Barn (West Chester)
Downingtown and West Pikeland – Chester County

If you care to see what I have selected, as well as my other images that have been accepted, they can be found on my Panoramio (Google Earth) account.

As always, please feel free to add comments!

– Andrew

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Update on Panoramio submissions

6/6/2011 – Wow! The folks that monitor submission seem to be working overtime!

Normally, or at least from my past experience, it usually takes 3-5 days for any news on images being accepted, but by late Sunday night, ALL 22 of my images have been approved! (I now have 135 images on Google Earth!)

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Stroud Reserve by Madison

Post author By Maddie
Post date June 3, 2011

I would like to welcome my newest Blogger, Madison!

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Logan, Daddy and I wanted to go for a walk, and Daddy happened to bring up Stroud Preserve. When we got there we saw a horse and a bunch of yellow fields like in the picture to the left. We went on a horse trail up really high,I was really scared. If you were to look down you would see a part of Brandywine creek and lots of trees. When we were done that trail we went home.

– Madison

– Andrew

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Daddy’s Original Post from that Sunday

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Update

Update on Panoramio submissions

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