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Chasing Sunsets

The weather this summer has not been conducive for sunsets.  Many rainy evenings over the past month have masked the Sun on the horizon.  Other times, when it looked promising, haze in the atmosphere had the Sun disappearing before it set. … Continue reading

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Heralding the End of Summer

The Autumnal Equinox is defined as the point in time the center of the Sun passes through the same plane as the Earth’s equator in the direction from North to South on or around September 21st or 22nd each year.  … Continue reading

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View 236: Scenes from a Beach

Spent the day enjoying summer at Brennan’s Beach RV Campground and Resort near Pulaski, New York. Walked the beach with the D70 using the Nifty Fifty (Nikon’s 50mm f/1.8 lens) which equates to 75mm with the 1.5x crop factor and came … Continue reading

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Goodbye to Summer

The autumnal equinox occurs tomorrow morning at 5:04AM (9/23/2011 at 9:04 GMT) to astronomically end summer. Thought I would wave goodbye on this last day of summer with a scene I photographed back in July. This young couple was watching … Continue reading

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Showing Scale

I visited the Chimney Bluffs State Park near Sodus, New York, earlier this week as part of my Memorial Day weekend.  The rugged bluffs were formed from drumlins, which in turn were created by glaciers in the last ice age.  … Continue reading

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