Being there

I drove about an hour to Livingston Manor on Sunday for their ice festival. I knew there would be figure skaters and races. I didn't know there would be a young boy wearing an Army uniform skating with an American flag in a tribute to his father, a major stationed in Iraq.



Sometimes the photograph just happens right in front of you.

Time machine

Although we're six days into 2008, I still have a backlog of 2007 photographs to post. Here they are. You can click on the photos to see a larger version.



Be prepared. I always try to keep my camera with me in the car. On this cloudy November late afternoon I was not expecting to take photographs. But as I was driving, I noticed a thin band of clear sky on the Western horizon. By the time I got near my destination, the rainbow was in the sky.
I would have liked a more picturesque location, but I was still happy to get a rainbow photograph in November. And the sun came out so close to sunset that I didn't have time to drive anywhere else.


This photograph above is of the same shopping mall; this time I took the picture from across a highway after the sun had set. The streaks are car lights from the highway during the long exposure.

The following photograph was taken at Randall Airport in Middletown, N.Y. I have never seen all the landing lights on before or since. Too bad I wasn't there a bit earlier to get the rising moon lower in the frame. The moon also would not have been so bright. I could not get detail in the moon without severely underexposing the rest of the photo.