Located in Toms River, NJ 530 acre Cattus Island is a part of the Ocean County Park system. In the heart of the “Jersey Shore” Cattus Island offers a variety of ecosystems including maritime upland pine/oak forest, salt marsh, and freshwater wetlands. Cattus Island Park plays home to a multitude of plant and wildlife and [...]
The “space” I’m speaking of here is dealing with the composition of a photograph. Using the lead in photo above as an example I’m referring to the large amount of extra space to the top and left of the flower blossom floating in water. I chose to compose the image that way to exaggerate the [...]
Silhouettes are sort of the reverse of most other techniques used to make your subject singled out in that usually your subject becomes the darkest part of the photograph. I feel this method explores more of the shape of the main subject than anything else. A silhouette proudly shows the outline of the main subject [...]
I know I know, fences aren’t exactly nature or wildlife related but they do exist in some beautifully scenic areas and can actually enhance a photograph some of the time. For me as a photographer a fence can be a blessing or a curse. There have certainly been times when there is a naturally beautiful [...]
Well, this color isn’t that exciting but it is incredibly common in nature, brown. A bit on the dull side, sometimes even boring. Brown doesn’t stand out too much and yet it can still make for some dramatic views or hard to find animals and birds. When the sun hits something brown just right it [...]
Red: bright, vibrant, powerful, and eye-catching. Those are just some of the descriptive words that come to mind when viewing something red. Red can paint an entire sky during a sunrise or sunset or make a tiny bird stand out like, well, a bright red bird in a green tree. During the fall color change [...]
Let’s brighten things up this time, enough with the black, time to move on to orange. Orange is another abundant color in nature, especially during the fall months in many areas of the world. If it’s not too cloudy you can start and end each day with some orange during sunrise and sunset, usually some [...]
The next in the series of colors, Blue. In searching through my collection of photographs it’s obvious blue seems to be the most common color followed up by green which makes sense with all the sky and water in many photos I’ve taken. You can see whether the camera is pointing up, down or almost [...]
I’m going to start a small series of post that are color themed. Today’s color is of course green. We all know that nature can provide us with the privilege of seeing colors we would probably never see anywhere else, either in intensity or uniqueness. I’m going to attempt to show some of the magnificent [...]
Back in July of 2008 my now fiance and I took a trip to Bar Harbor Maine to relax and take in the beautiful scenery. One evening as we traveled up to the top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park just before sunset we could tell it was going to be incredible. As we [...]
My son Ray has already done a post on this but I will add a little more. We took our camper and stayed at the Elk Neck State campground so we wouldn’t have as long to get to the Conowingo Dam. This is a great campground to stay in if you are visiting the area [...]
I figured this post somewhat appropriate for the time of year with the creepy spider web covered bald cypress trees that were visible early one morning. I went camping with my family at Trap Pond State Park in Delaware a few weeks ago and my father and I were out on the lake in our [...]
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