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Tag Archives: new york
View 252: Autumn Colour
Autumn was muted this year. The long, hot and dry summer really stressed the trees and the fall foliage showed it. Many trees which normally turn bright red this time of year went going directly to yellow or brown. There was … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Weekly View
Tagged 28-300mm, autumn, baldwinsville, flowers, leafs, leaves, maple, new york, nikon D700, red, staghorn sumac, tree, vr, yellow
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Northern Red Oak
The Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra) has been called “one of the handsomest, cleanest, and stateliest trees in North America” by naturalist Joseph S. Illick, and it is widely considered a national treasure. The Red Oak is especially valued for … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged 28-300mm, autumn, baldwinsville, color, fall foliage, leaf, leafs, leaves, new york, nikon D700, norther red oak, tree, vr
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View 251: Wine Tour East
For my Aunt’s 80th birthday, my cousins arranged for a limo bus to take a wine tour of a few eastern Seneca Lake wineries. Last year, I had sampled some of the western Seneca Lake wineries. Both tours had one … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, Weekly View
Tagged 24-85mm, autumn, bagg dare, building, finger lakes, flash, grapes, hazlitt vineyards, hdr, kings garden vineyards, landscaping, new york, nikon D700, photomatix, red cat, sb-700, slushy, speedlight, three brothers wineries, trees, ventosa vineyards, willow, wine
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The Empire
The Empire apple was developed by Cornell University scientists in 1966 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva as a cross between Red Delicious and McIntosh. Empire apples have a sweet-tart taste that is ideal for eating and … Continue reading
View 250: Apple Drive
It was a crisp autumn morning last Saturday. Temperatures had dipped below freezing for the first time this season and the sky was a clear and deep blue color. It was a day of many photowalks all over the world … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly View
Tagged 28-300mm, apple, autumn, beak & skiff, cone, crates, decay, distillery, empire, farm, flowers, golden delicious, honey, landscape, man, new york, nikon D700, o'neill, orchard, owner, raw, trees, vodka, vr
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