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Boo!!!

Happy Halloween!

It's creepy in the moonlight. Enter if you dare. Go ahead...you know you want to!

OK I confess this wasn't actually shot in the moonlight. It was shot in broad daylight. When I was doing the black and white adjustments for the image at one point the sky went to nearly all black and I thought, wow that almost looks like it was shot during a bright full moon. So I went with it.

This is actually a house I know quite well. It breaks my heart to see it in such a state. When I was a child I ran in it's halls while my Uncle would jokingly (I think) stomp is feet and say gruffly that children should be seen and not heard. Meanwhile my Aunt spoiled me with little trinkets and treasures.

It was actually a grand old farmhouse. To me it was magical with all the antiques and wonderful treasures in every elegant room, and its grand staircase and fireplaces. To a small child it was larger than life. I was especially fond of this giant calliope music box that was very much like this one. It played tunes from these large metal disks that were stored in the bottom of the case. I don't know what happened to it.

Years before my Aunt died, not long after my uncle passed, she had turned the huge property over to the Hunterdon County Park System with survivorship rights so she could finish out her days there. She did not want to see this beautiful open space developed with McMansions and strip malls. The park is called Hoffman Park and I visit there regularly.

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News:

This photo of the Bucknell Football field is a 2 page feature photo in the Fall 2008 issue of Bucknell Magazine.


This photo of the Bucknell Quad is a 2 page feature photo in the Summer 2008 issue of Bucknell Magazine.

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As of July 2008 I have decided to post the same photos on "Parallel Universe" as I do here. It has become too complicated to maintain two different photoblogs on a regular basis. Feel free to visit "Parallel Universe" and look through the portfolio/archives since there are quite a few photos there that were never posted here. I will continue to post on both since each one gets different viewers. I have also changed the title of Parallel Universe to Capture This Photography 2.

Check out my other Photoblog portfolio/archives:
"Capture This Photography 2"

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