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I love simple things. A single item in a scene like a lost shoe on a fence, or an empty bench in a park, or even just a wheel barrow laid on its side in a garden. This is another shot I took on my brief visit to Rutgers Gardens.

Technical Details:
NIKON D700
Tokina 80-200mm f2.8
1/200 second
F/2.8
ISO 360
160 mm

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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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This was also shot at the Rutgers Gardens. As soon as I got out of the car I noticed this pink Croc on the fence next to my car. I have always wondered how one loses such things. I know that babies often discard their shoes and it can go unnoticed but this was not a baby's shoe, it looked like it belonged to a young child but definitely not a baby or toddler.

I do know how a college student loses shoes though! Russell told me the story of how he and some friends were walking in New Brunswick and one of them was kicking something on the sidewalk and his shoe went flying over a fence and into a construction pit where he could not retrieve it. Silly college students! So at least now I have an answer to one of the mysteries of life!

Technical Details:
NIKON D700
Tokina 80-200mm f2.8
1/200 second
F/2.8
ISO 560
100 mm

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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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There is a wonderful hidden treasure located right here in Central NJ on the Cook College Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. It is the Rutgers Gardens, a beautifully maintained 50 acres of wonderful gardens. It was established in the 1930's as an outdoor classroom for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and has continued to expand ever since.

The gardens are open to the public from 8:30 AM til dusk year round and it is just a beautiful place that I highly recommend to any garden enthusiast or just anyone who wants to stroll around in a beautiful setting. The gardens are free to the public but do offer guided tours at nominal cost.

I did not know about these gardens myself until a couple of weeks ago when Mark told me about them. (How could he keep such a secret!) I am so glad I know about them now and I plan to go back often. They promise to be beautiful all year round from what I could see on my brief visit there.

This is a shot of a little gift shop called "The Potting Shed" which is located at the gardens. I didn't have the chance to go in and I'm not even sure it was open when I was there on Election day. We went there to pick up Russell in order to take him to vote with us. While waiting for him to get out of class we took a quick ride through and strolled around near the gift shop. It was a rainy day and we didn't have a lot of time to explore as much as I would have liked so I will definitely have to go back soon to have a better look around. I think I might go back this weekend...weather permitting.

For more information visit their website here.

A note to my friends who use Pixel Post based blogs...it seems that all my attempts to comment on your wonderful sites recently are getting rejected and flagged as SPAM...I have brought it to the attention of some of you. I don't want you to think I don't come there anymore I just cannot comment any longer. I hope whatever the issue is it gets straightened out soon.

Technical Details:
NIKON D700
Tokina 80-200mm f2.8
1/160 second
F/4.5
ISO 250
80 mm

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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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This is another shot from Breuer Hill. These dried flowers were just so pretty. They were a little tough to keep in the frame because the breeze was starting to get a little brisk.

As you can tell I shot nearly straight down at them. I would not usually do that but I liked the perspective here.

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News:

Anita Jesse (Through My Lens) has honored me by passing the Kreativ Blogger award to me. (Thank you Anita!)

According to the "rules" I am to list 6 things that make me happy...only six...hmmm...there are so many more! But here goes the short list:

1. My family
2. My kitty Missy
3. Photography
4. Christmas and all the trimmings!
5. Lighthouses
6. Anything to do with the beach and ocean

Now I have to list 6 other bloggers that inspire me...There are so many! I have been following some for so many years and it would be obvious for me to pass it on to them, and probably most of you will already know them and their work. I visit a couple of hundred photoblogs each week. Many of them are really well known, some are a little lesser known. I decided to pass this award on to maybe some that are slightly lesser known, but inspirational Photobloggers. (I wish I could name so many more!)

1. Russ Devan, My Corner of New Hanover
2. Betsy Barron, Daily Shots
3. Azhar Chougle, The Daily Sunrise
4. Rabbit, Spot the Pot (She makes her own ceramic pinhole cameras, fascinating work.)
5. Gaye Johnson Photography
6. Anita Bower

I visit so many very talented photobloggers that it is always so difficult for me to do these things. It always leaves me feeling guilty because I would love to honor all of them with an award.

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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This is another shot from Breuer Hill - built c. 1800 in Princeton's Battlefield-Stony Brook Settlement Historic District. I just love benches. I do spend more time photographing them than actually sitting on them.

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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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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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My first post from my D700. (I am trying larger images here. I apologize to those with smaller screens. I may revert to the smaller size depending on feedback. Smaller versions will continue on my other site.)

This was shot at Breuer Hill - built c. 1800 in Princeton's Battlefield-Stony Brook Settlement Historic District. It is part of the gardens on the beautiful property.

It is quite different from the D200. It reacts very differently in terms of how it renders colors and meters exposure. It is much more accurate than the D200...hence I will have to take time getting used to it. My D200 tended to have flatter colors and tended toward underexposure. The D700 is the exact opposite. The colors are so vibrant and I am tending toward overexposing.

The menus are very familiar but they moved one or two things and I have had to hunt for them a little, but I suppose I will adjust.

The low light is way beyond what I imagined it would be. I really bought the camera for that very reason and it really performs beyond what I had hoped even at ISO 6400 I get AMAZING images. Here is a quick unedited example of ISO 6400 in low light. I did post this link a few days ago but wanted to show the example again. As you can see it is an extremely usable image.

There is very little in terms of post processing needed. Pretty much all I've done was RAW conversion in Lightroom. I have only used CS2 to resize images so far. I know that I probably don't even need to do that but I am used to doing it that way because I usually do curves adjustments but haven't needed to do any curves on these images. I tried doing some but tossed them because the original still looked better. Old habits die hard though.

Today is election day so for all those who can legally do it...

Don't forget to VOTE!

Pssssst...tomorrow is my youngest son's 16th Birthday!!! I can hardly believe it! Time just flew by!

Happy Birthday Jon!

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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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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"

-ABOUT ME- -LINKS- -HOME- -CONTACT-