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On a very quick unscheduled trip I made a 400 mile run up to my nephew’s camp in New Hampshire. It was an absolutely beautiful weekend BUT none of the trees were in bloom for the fall colors. I guess it was just a little early for the Fall Foliage. I did however find this very beautiful location on the trip home. Bath, New Hampshire is located very close to the Vermont border and about 100 miles from Montreal, Canada. One of the places where you say, “I wish I could live in the area”. I shot the picture of the bridge and produced it in HDR. I tried not to overdo the effect and I think it came out OK. Hope you all like it and can sit back and listen to the river flow under the bridge.

Just figured I would include a picture of a church with a fellow player this pipe organ. It really sounded great.  While there I visited this General Store. It says that it is the oldest general store in America. I was quite neat inside. The store dates back to the 1800s.

While visiting my brother’s house I came across this little creature. I don’t really like spiders and the idea of shooting him in macro was not too appealing to me. After posting it on another website someone made a comment that it was a highly venemous spider but could not be fatal to humans. I wonder what else it would do to them. I am glad that I didn’t have the opportunity to find out. I am still alive. (Click on photo to enlarge)

We have seen very few Butterflies around this year. Maybe it has been too “hot” for them. Who Knows? Anyway here are a couple Sue took with a rare shot of a “Stick Bug”? Not sure if it is or not.

This guy has been hanging around the house since the Spring weather. It is the strangest Dragon Fly we have ever seen. It almost looks like a Bi-plane. I only wish I can get Sue to use a tripod so the picture would be a little clearer. She just likes to shoot everything “hand held”. BUT overall I must compliment her on the great pictures she takes.

Here is another shot.

Back in May I had the opportunity to join other members for a trip to a “Sky Diving” outing. I was quite impressed with the number of people that were willing to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. (Only wish I was brave enough) Below are just a couple of shots I was able to get. Can’t wait to go back again.

I haven’t been able to shoot much  lately and decided to head out with the camera just to see if I remembered how to use it. I came found this pond that had some water lilies in it< but they were quite far away. I put on my 70-300mm lens with a 1.4 TC and waited for this bee to come back and stay in one position for just a little bit of time. I had to be careful and not jerk the camera as I was shooting handheld. It took a ccouple of rapid shots but       I got the result I was looking for.

On January 6, 2011 Myself, Sue, Pat and Denise took a trial run to get to the South Street Bridge in Philly. It was a fun trip getting there. I think we hit every Traffic Light and Stop Sign that was in the city. We traveled so many back streets, that I felt like one of the “Back Street Boys”. LOL. We did get there and it was very nice with a great view of the West Side of Philly.

When we did get there I was not able to make the run up the bridge as I was not feeling well. So, all the pics taken in this entry were taken by my wife Sue. The first one is of a mural on the side of a building right where we parked. 

The next pictures are of the West Side of Philly. Starting with daylight . 

After awhile the sun was starting to go down and below is one of those shots.

The last picture is at night. I think it is a beautiful picture and Sue did a “great job” of capturing These pictures.