Category Photography

The Nikon D90

In August of 2007 I decided to purchase a small, lightweight point-and-shoot digital camera. In a post about the camera I said, “…I’m a purist… I would never give up my film camera for digital….” Over the past year and…

Gallery: Honeymoon

This is the Grand Hotel and the world's largest porch.

We had a wonderful honeymoon. We started in Providence, Rhode Island before flying to the tip of Michigan’s lower peninsula. From there we took a ferry to Mackinac Island. Since 1898, motorized vehicles have been outlawed on Mackinac Island; although,…

Gallery: Governor John Langdon House

Governor John Langdon House

On December 14, 1774 Portsmouth, New Hampshire merchant and prominent businessman, John Langdon, led a crowd of rebels to Fort William and Mary (later renamed Fort Constitution) to overtake the fort and confiscate the gunpowder stored there. The crowed stormed…

Gallery: Arkansas May, 08

Jared did some more slaloming

This past May the family got together again in Arkansas to relax, water ski, visit, and play games. This was the last vacation for Leah and me before our wedding and it was the first visit to Arkansas for my…

Lunar Eclipse

I nearly forgot about last night’s lunar eclipse, had it not been for a reminder phone call from Leah. The moon was a wonderful rust-brown color; and the eclipse, at the time of the photograph, was almost full. The photograph…

Gallery: Christmas ’07

Fireplace

Once again I’ve managed to take pictures of Christmas in Ohio. Well, mostly the Christmas tree anyway. There is also a picture of the fireplace, and one out the window of the airplane, where I could see a sort of…

Gallery: December ’07

Here I start to play with color balance and exposure

It has snowed more in the past two weeks than it has for the past two winters, and it’s only December 20th. Having finished snowing this evening for the third time in 8 days, I decided to do some night…

Gallery: Hamilton House

Last weekend Leah and I visited Hamilton House, a historic house maintained by Historic New England, in South Berwick, Maine. It’s a beautiful location on the Salmon Falls River, with an ornamental garden and very scenic grounds. I was able…

A few recent images

Here are four images that I took on recent trips to Portsmouth, NH. I haven’t created a Portsmouth gallery yet, but I will when there are a few more images.