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A big snowstorm hit our area this afternoon.

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Relatively normal treatment here …

Crazy HDR color saturation on this one …

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The original of this image is enormous … 11,000+ pixels wide. Stitched from six separate DSLR images. Taken from a balcony on the East Side of Providence.

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I’ve gone lighthouse crazy lately. I’ve photographed, at present count, 34 separate lighthouses in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, and even two in Nova Scotia. There is one photo of each lighthouse in this Flickr set. You can see a wider collection of my photos tagged with “lighthouse”.

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Took a little trip to Annisquam Lighthouse over the weekend. Top: HDR technique. Bottom: stitched about 6 images in Photoshop.

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I picked up a Lensbaby at Photoshop World a few weeks ago … they were sold out of them at the show, so they mailed mine. It finally came yesterday:

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Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, performing at an outdoor concert at the local university.

How did I get that spectacular angle? Why, it’s the old “put the camera on a monopod and hold it over your head” trick.
The concert itself was spectacular. I had never heard the Flaming Lips before. After the concert, I […]

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I’m kind of pleased with how this one came out. It’s an HDR image of Point Judith Lighthouse, taken yesterday evening.

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Daughter and I took a boat tour to Rose Island, off the coast of Newport yesterday. The tour combined a trip to the Rose Island lighthouse with seal watching. The tour is run jointly by Save the Bay, which promotes awareness of Narragansett Bay ecology, and the Rose Island Lighthouse foundation, which restored and maintains […]

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