Posted in Art and Design, Canon Powershot S90, Getty Center Abstractions, Photo Resources on Nov 23rd, 2011 4 Comments »
My friend Gary Sharp is visiting for Thanksgiving and he caught me doing some framing of prints for an upcoming show I’ve got. For those who do their own framing, I found out the hard way that using acrylite (acrylic) for the glazing of large prints (23.5″ squares) can be problematic: the acrylic bowed just [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Canon PowerShot S95, Photo Gear on Sep 15th, 2011 5 Comments »
Looks like Canon is about to come out with a new compact point and shoot which will replace the S95 which replaced the S90: Canon S100: The New Pocket Powerhouse Point-and-Shoot. Here’s Canon’s “official” page on it: PowerShot S100. Here’s DP Review’s Canon Powershot S100 Preview. As yet we’ve only been able to handle an [...]
Posted in Adventure, Animals, Canon Powershot S90, Hiking on Jul 19th, 2011 9 Comments »
Schaghticoke Ridge, Appalachian Trail, Kent, Connecticut. We’ve been hiking this section of the AT between Bull’s Bridge and Rt. 341 for three years now, done the hike dozens of times all year round and have never seen a single rattlesnake. This ridge is sometimes called “rattlesnake ridge” because of the number of snakes on it. [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Photography, Social Software, Tools, Travel on Jul 10th, 2011 6 Comments »
My friend Steve, his wife Cathy and daughter Kristen who live in Oregon recently went on a three week trip to Spain. They wanted snapshots of the trip and wanted to be able to communicate with the outside world as they travelled (email, upload pictures, etc.). These folks like to travel light so no taking [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking, Places on Jun 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
Northwest Connecticut. Hiking on the Paradise Lane trail on the east side of Bear Mountain the mountain laurel is thick and prime right now.
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking, Shadows and reflections on Jun 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Schaghticoke ridge, Kent, Connecticut. Dave and I found a new beaver pond on a hike between Rt. 341 and Bull’s Bridge on the Appalachian trail and as we walked down the edge of it I noticed some interesting reflections. The mountain laurel are in bloom along the Appalachian trail in Connecticut. Good time to be [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Gadgets, Hiking, Ideas, iPhone Photography, Social Software on May 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Taken with a Canon Powershot S90 camera On the Appalachian Trail near Sheffield, Massachusetts. I’ve been taking pictures like these with my iPhone and Instagram because it’s fun and easy to upload them to both twitter and flickr this way but in doing so I miss the quality of a “real” camera. Of course, calling [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Landscape, Places on Apr 18th, 2011 4 Comments »
Salisbury, Connecticut. Driving north toward the town of Salisbury I noticed that the storm clouds over Bear Mountain lifted and the sun lit it up. Dave in the car ahead of me noticed it too and we both stopped to try to get a shot of it. We used two cars because we hiked from [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Photographers, Places on Apr 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Salisbury, Connecticut. In guidebooks this is the best view in Connecticut. Not sure I agree but it’s a nice view north to Bear, Race, and Everett (mountains). Nice hike with a large group. Spring is here and there are only small patches of snow in shady spots. Yes! This is the same image that I [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Hiking on Mar 28th, 2011 6 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. Hiking on the Appalachian Trail between Bull’s Bridge and Kent (Schaghticoke Ridge) we came across a few signs of spring including this moss outcropping on a boulder.
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking, Ice, Trees on Mar 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Bear Mountain, Connecticut. Hiking around the back side of Bear Mountain we encountered more mountain laurels coated with ice. The hike was both wonderful and terrible: under two feet of snow was running water from rain and melt off and every now and than we’d break through the crust and get soaked in the “stream” [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Ice, Places, Trees on Mar 4th, 2011 8 Comments »
Bear Mountain, Connecticut. We hiked up Under-mountain trail onto the Appalachian Trail and up onto Bear Mountain the other day and the last 500 feet of elevation gain saw everything coated with ice. It was a beautiful scene and we stood around photographing so long our hands got cold and we had to get moving [...]
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Landscape, People on Feb 10th, 2011 4 Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. We’re incredibly lucky to have this piece of the Steep Rock Preserve right down the road from us with four miles of trails that in winter, are excellent for snowshoeing. Behind Loren and Dave is Lake Waramaug (in the distance).
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Landscape, Shadows and reflections on Nov 14th, 2010 4 Comments »
Paradise Lane, Bear Mountain, Connecticut. After a dry summer we finally had enough rain to fill some streams and knock a lot of leaves down. Colorful leaves under water make for some interesting photography. The water seems to preserve them like amber preserves things that fall into it.
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Opinion, Photo Gear on Oct 28th, 2010 No Comments »
A Love Letter to a Camera David Pogue’s review of the Canon PowerShot S95 In short, he loves it. I must say, I love my S90 as well.
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Places, Shadows and reflections on Oct 15th, 2010 6 Comments »
Race Brook Falls, Massachusetts. Dave and I took a late afternoon hike up Race Brook Falls to Mt. Race and the afternoon light was much better for photography than our usual morning hike, sun overhead situation. We’ve had such a dry summer this is the first time since spring that we’ve seen this much water [...]
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Places on Oct 14th, 2010 5 Comments »
East of Sheffield, MA. I’m standing on a ridge on the Appalachian trail in southern Massachusetts. From this vantage point you can see across the valley to the southern Berkshires. The AT crosses the valley from where I am to that ridge just out of frame on the right, then descends into Connecticut after going [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Canon Powershot S90, Places on Sep 24th, 2010 No Comments »
Over Ontario, California. I had a whole row to myself last week on my trip to California and took this picture on approach to LAX. I haven’t done a lot of shooting out plane windows for a while, preferring to sit in aisle seats on the now crowded planes but during this flight I had [...]
Posted in Architecture, Canon Powershot S90, New York on Aug 15th, 2010 2 Comments »
New York City. Walking along 42nd St. between Grand Central and Times Square the people watching is incredible. Being the (un) street photographer that I am, I looked up instead of across and found the scene a bit less crowded, in fact, quite desolate.
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Ideas, People, Places on Jul 18th, 2010 5 Comments »
Bear Mountain, Salisbury, Connecticut. We met "Bloodhound" (his trail name) on the top of Bear Mountain yesterday. Since early June we’ve seen dozens of "thru-hikers" on the Appalachian Trail; hikers who are doing the entire 2175 mile Appalachian Trail hike from Georgia to Maine (map). I had a plan to take a picture of each [...]
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