New River Gorge National Park
The newest (and one of the best) National Parks in the USA is to be found in West Virginia! The New River Gorge Park was created out of the National…
The Waterfalls on Decker’s Creek
Deckers Creek tumbles alongside Route 7 from Masontown to Morgantown in West Virginia. Although its lower stretches are polluted from an old mine leak, the upper section has some great…
Cucumber Falls in the winter
Cucumber Falls is a really cute little waterfall in the Ohiopyle state park. This park, in the bottom southwest corner of Pennsylvania has set of large river waterfalls, white water…
Lake Tahoe hidden spot
I always do a search for good photo locations when I visit an area, and a trip to Lake Tahoe in California was no exception. I read in an interesting…
Aiming for perfection
It is intriguing to ask a professional photographer why they go back to the same place time after time and take (sometimes) a very similar photograph. In my case, I…
Capturing the moon in a photograph
Those images of a scene with a bright, but perfectly clear moon are fantastic, and I have hopefully succeeded with some of my own, but why are many of the…
Getting depth into a nature image
I know that this might seem of more interest to a photographer than for someone that just want to appreciate images, but it is intriguing sometimes to see the difference…
Modern day equivalent of Bird’s Eye maps
My story about the Bird's Eye street plans of Morgantown reminded me of my attempt to reproduce the view of Morgantown depicted in Thadeus Morton Fowler's map. TM Fowler was…
Enhancing maps from the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress contains pretty much every document published in the USA, but increasingly they have been making many of those documents available online via very high-quality scans. When…
Creating mystery with a forest photograph
I enjoy walking through the woods - there is a calmness and a sense of peace and one of my favorite walks is quite a long way away from the…