These are some monster artichokes that we purchased in Washington State. The photo was taken a couple of years ago, not recently. These things are monsters. They are about the size of a common softball. You will never see these in New York State. I suspect they were grown in …
This is a rather neat photo that I snapped back in 1996 at Leo Carrillo State Park in Southern California. The technology of this photo is interesting. It was taken using a Canon camera on Konica print film. Early digital cameras were stunningly expensive and something most people only …
This is a sort of funny photo for technical reasons. You get a pretty good idea of how panorama photos work. This was snapped, so to speak, near the pond at the nature center adjacent to the Shaker Heritage Society property in Colonie. The idea is that when you make the panorama you turn around in a circle while holding the camera steady. The clever software stitches the photo components together so that when displayed you get a 360 degree view.
In the example here, you can see that the image is somewhat distorted and that the center of the image is almost like a “V” where the arms of the V go off at about a 40 degree angle. In fact, this central point is not at all like a V in real life. If you go there you will see exactly what I mean.
If you look closely at the left side of the photo you will see Anita walking Annaleigh and Maggie. It looks like she has six dogs, but, in fact, Anita has only two. It is really a strange effect.
This is a photograph of locomotive #31, a Baldwin, on the Strasburg Rail Road in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. The locomotive was built in Philadelphia in 1908.
This photo was snapped along the “Road to Paradise”, which is Strasburg’s line from the Strasburg station to Paradise along Route 30 in Lancaster County. The filmstock was Kodak Kodacolor Gold 35mm. I recently scanned it from the original negative. This image has been mildly touched up in Photoshop to correct color shift and aging.
