Posts Tagged ‘PA’
Pennhurst Revisited
I paid a second visit to Pennhurst State School & Hospital last weekend in an outing I organized to include some photographer friends. It was fun sharing the experience but a little more challenging for me. I had already photographed the scenes that called out loudest to me and now I had to dig a […]
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Tags: abandoned, asylum, PA, pennhurst, Pennhurst Sate School & Hospital, Pennsylvania, photography
Inside Pennhurst
Here are my last images from Pennhurst … for a little while anyway. I wanted the images to tell a story of Pennhurst as an institution. Images I chose not to show are those I shot in areas that had a lot of graffiti. Those images seemed to be more about vandalism and less about […]
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Tags: asylum, hospital, institution, PA, pennhurst, photography, school
Seating Arrangements
Upon processing my images from Pennhurst State School & Hospital I realized that many of them feature the random chairs that were left behind. For me they represent evidence of human existence. I was drawn to the windows, draped with dingy curtains … at one time allowing just a glimpse of the world outside these […]
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Tags: abandoned, asylum, chairs, haunted, hospital, PA, pennhurst, Pennsylvania
When arriving at this recent meetup destination I was pleasantly surprised to find more than I had expected. I mean, who knew that just outside of Philadelphia, stood Bryn Athyn Cathedral? … a photographer’s playground! Another pleasant surprise was that two of my friends showed up and we had fun shooting together (at times). Surrounded […]
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Tags: alter, arches, Bryn Athyn Cathedral, cathedral, digital photography, gothic, Huntingdon Valley, PA, philadelphia, photography, romanesque, tower
Inside Fonthill
In May I had the opportunity to shoot inside Fonthill Castle in Doylestown, PA. Photography inside is not normally allowed however photographer and workshop leader, John Barclay graciously invited me when he had an opening in a shoot he had planned with Tony Sweet and a few friends. I had been there a little over […]
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Tags: American Arts & Crafts Movement, doylestown, fonthill, fonthill castle, HDR, Henry Chapman Mercer, high dynamic range, inside, interior, PA, photography
All Aboard!
In this post I am featuring the train portion of my Lancaster day trip. After exploring the Strasburg Railroad Station for a while we headed over to the Pennsylvania State Railroad Museum. Here they have many restored trains, models and nice displays. Rather than going for ‘pictures of trains’ I mostly focused in on train […]
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Tags: lancaster, locomotive, museum, PA, Pennsylvania, photographs, photography, railroad, RR, Strasburg, trains
Go Both Ways!
When shooting a subject I like to try both, vertical and horizontal compositions. They often offer two totally different looks. Here are two shots from a recent trip to Rickett’s Glen in Pennsylvania. Here I prefer the vertical shot. It seems to accentuate the height and direction of the falls. The horizontal shot includes a […]
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Tags: cascades, falls, PA, Pennsylvania, Rickett's Glen State Park, spring, waterfalls
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