Travel

Patriotic Zeke

Here is my dog, Zeke, keeping sentinel over our neighborhood, in the shadow of the American Flag.

Rhode Island

Surreal Galilee 3

Date: 2/1/10
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikon 18-55mm VR 3.5-5.6G

:Settings:
Speed: 1/30
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100

:Details:
This picture was taken in Galilee, RI on the boat docks in mid afternoon with very cold skies and a temp in the teens. I enhanced the color curves of the picture with Nikon Capture NX2 to give it this surreal effect and to bring out how cold and harsh winter can be.

Rhode Island

Colors Of Winter

I decided to hop a stone wall and see what I could find in an old abandoned apple orchard. I was surprised at the colors within.

Rhode Island

Colors Of Winter

I decided to walk through an old abandoned apple orchard one day and found that there is much color within even in winter.

Maine

Portland, ME: Kotzschmar Organ

The console of the Kotzschmar Organ looks lonely at the center of the stage in Portland City Hall’s Merrill Auditorium. The room swallows it. With an imposing facade of pipes towering before it and three tiers of seats looming behind, the console seems tiny and vulnerable–like a raft poised on the lip of a whale. […]

Vermont

Waterbury, VT: Hen of the Wood

We wish we could take credit for discovering Hen of the Wood, but Food & Wine magazine, the New York Times, and the James Beard Foundation, among others, have already bestowed their highest praise upon executive chef/co-owner Eric Warnstedt. And with good reason: Warnstedt is putting his money where his mouth is when he says […]

New Hampshire

The RPM Challenge in Portsmouth, NH

The proposition seems impossible at worst, masochistic at best, but the RPM Challenge continues to draw in the curious, the brave, and the otherwise unoccupied. Conceived of by Portsmouth, New Hampshire’s alternative arts and culture weekly, The Wire, the premise is simple: Write, record, and produce an album of music entirely in the month of […]

Vermont

Vermont Landscape Photography by Jon Olsen

See More: Vermont Landscape Photography: Jon Olsen Photography One recent midwinter day, landscape photographer Jon Olsen found himself at a favorite spot: a narrow country road dominated by pastures just outside Hartford, Vermont’s village center. There, under the late daylight, Olsen parked his truck, strapped on a backpack stocked with lenses and a camera, and […]

Massachusetts

South Boston’s L Street Brownies

There are those who call themselves members of the L Street Brownies, the famed South Boston polar bear club that makes its home at the James M. Curley Community Center, and then there are the hard-core types like Jack Dever. Beyond the group’s annual New Year’s Day dip, the 70-year-old L Street Brownies president has […]

Rhode Island

Joy Homestead

Job Joy Homestead dates back to the Revolutionary War when the French troops lead by General Rochambeau marched by this colonial farm house in 1781 on their way to victory at Yorktown.

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