Category: Chester County

A Fall walk in the Peacedale Preserve

Post author By Andrew
Post date October 24, 2013

Some images taken during a late Fall walk in the Natural Lands Trust’s Peacedale Preserve in Chester County, PA.

There was a weather front moving through while I was there, which allowed for some very interesting cloud and lighting conditions, and several times, I was able to see some Crepuscular rays.

Weather Clouds 024 – Peacedale Preserve

Weather Clouds hdr 01 – Peacedale Preserve

Weather Clouds 169 – Peacedale Preserve

At one point during my walk, I encountered a real old-timer.

In the middle of the Preserve, there is a huge beech tree, at is 3-4 feet in diameter, and easily several hundreds of years old!

I don’t think I have ever seen a monster like this!

I was also extremely surprised with all the wooly bear caterpillar that I encountered. (Predicting Winter Weather: Woolly Bear Caterpillars)

During my walk, I had to avoid walking on over a dozen of these critters!

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Tags Autumn, Chester County, clouds, crepuscular rays, Fall, Lightroom, Natural Lands Trust, Nik Software, Peacedale Preserve, Viveza, Weather

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Hunting for Fall Colors

Post author By Andrew
Post date October 21, 2013

Creek Rd Tone Map 107 - The Fall colors along Creek Rd in Chester County PA. — Creek Rd Tone Map 107

On Friday the 18th, I had a chance to drive around again looking for the Fall colors.

Here we are, over halfway through October, and there still is a fair amount of green still in the trees, but in other places, some of the trees are already bare.

Creek Rd Tone Map 095

Creek Rd Tone Map 078

Creek Rd HDR 01

Creek Rd Tone Map 057

Creek Rd Tone Map 072

Creek Rd Tone Map 111

Creek Rd Tone Map 107

All these shoots were taken using my Canon 18-55 IS using both two Tiffen Neutral Density filters (1.2 & 0.9) at f22+ for 15 to 25 seconds.

I gotta find me a ND filter in the 2.1 range. My 3.0 is too much, and I do not like having two layers of glass on the lens…

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Tags Autumn, Chester County, colors, Creek Road, Fall, Glenmoore, Leaves, Rt. 282, Water

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Barn door with corn stalks – Digital Art

Post author By Andrew
Post date October 14, 2013

I am still ‘new’ to the digital art/painting capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS6, but it has been a lot of fun playing!

Earlier in the week, while out on a GPS drive, I captured the base image while shooting out the car window, and published it ‘as is’ so to speak.

A couple of days later, playing with a new processing technique, I came up with this!

I’m still fine tuning which images this technique works best, so come back again to see more images!

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Tags Autumn, Corn Stalks, Digital Art, Digital Painting, Fall, Nik Software, Photoshop

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Minquas Fire Company Open House

Post author By Andrew
Post date October 12, 2013

My son and I were out doing Saturday errands, when we happened by the Minquas Fire Company Open House, and what boy could resist Firetrucks…

Reaching for the Sky

A Long Way Up

Looking back

We spent about a half-hour wandering around, looking at the various pieces of equipment, and being very thankful, that these folks are under 5 minutes away from my home!

Later in the evening, I got a Facebook mail from the folks at the station house, asking if they could use the photo I took during the Super Moon for their Facebook profile.

I quickly responding by saying Yes!