Dam Overflow

New Brooklyn Lake

Winslow Township, NJ

Bill's photo of New Brooklyn Lake was taken in September of 1982. If you were to stop today there would be hardly any change.

Pumpkin and Fall Leaves

Gloucester Township, NJ

The weather is finally feeling like fall again.

Headless Strawman

Pine Hill, NJ

Bill and I made a strawman with a very small pumpkin for its head. Bill removed the head and put the body in the rocker we had on the porch and then placed the head in the strawman's lap.

Jack-O-Lantern

Gloucester Township, NJ

Many years ago, before we moved into our current house, both of us tried our hand at some still life photos. Bill carved a pumpkin and we took different types of photos with the pumpkin. In this one Bill had put a candle inside to try to get the mouth, nose and eyes to shine. He had me put it on the blog as one of his Halloween images.

City Bikes

Philadelphia, PA

Over the years I have found that I love taking photographs of bicycles. There are always bikes locked to the railing on boardwalks down the shore. I have a collection of these images. The bikes may old or new, colorful, adult or children's bikes. The pictures have been taken from different shore towns. A few years ago, I began to photograph bikes found in Philadelphia, PA. This bike caught my attention by the way it was locked in an upright position along a fence.

Oswego Lake

Pine Barrens, NJ

The lakes of southern New Jersey are all man-made. Near Lake Oswego is the Oswego River which flows east meeting with the Wading River. They both eventually flow into the Great Bay. Canoeist enjoy the trip. In the fall it is the starting point of many trips.

Three Mushrooms

Pine Barrens, NJ

Walking the trails throught the Pine Barrens here in New Jersey can bring many small surprises. Bill found three mushrooms growing among the weeds and after scanning them in the computer, removed all the grass around them.

Fern Leaves

Pine Hill, NJ

Bill and I each have our themes. Mine are images of shells and seaweed that I've photographed over the years. Bill's are fern leaves. In going over our inventory of slides, I've noticed how many of his slides have fern leaves in them. He just finished work on this images and simply calls it "Fern Leaves".

The Scream

Pine Barrens, NJ

Playing with the scanned slide I took a simple image of a dead branch and turned it into some woodland creature with feathers and a knife. It's mouth open in a scream that only the woods can hear.

Pine Trees and Fern

Pine Barrens, NJ

If I take a look at any of our photos, a real careful and close look, I can see the many different colors. Bill's photo taken in the fall while hiking one of the many trails in the Pine Barrens, is a great example. Until he darkened the image and saturated the colors there was barely a hint of red. Now the fall colors just pop out. The reds and yellows scream at you. A question though, is this a photograph or a computerized image? Or is it both?

Bill and I are a lot alike and a lot different. For instance, I spent two years taking French and barely made it through French II. Bill took four years of Spanish and still can translate. He still practices his Spanish. What does that have to do with these images? The first is called "The Spider and the Fox". The second is "El Zorro". If you have taken Spanish you should know the answer. The two images below are from the same slide of a spider web he photographed in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Each has been cropped to portray a particular iamges.

The Spider and the Fox

Pine Barrens, NJ

El Zorro

Pine Barrens, NJ

Mushrooms Again, Berlin, NJ

Mushrooms are very hard for us to identify. So we are left to photograph for their beauty. They have such great colors, shapes and tectures. Maybe someday we will learn their names.

More Mushrooms, Berlin, NJ

More footsin' at the park in Berlin, NJ. Stopping to take a photo or two.

Mushrooms, Berlin, NJ

Footsin through park trails with our cameras ready, one or both of us might stop along the way. Checking if we have a photograph to shoot, like these mushrooms attached to a tree, moss growing on its side. We've checked our guidebook and find it very hard to ID.

West River Drive, Philadelphia, PA

A walk on the west side of the river.

Common Buckeye, Westville, NJ

We had thought it was a rare butterfly until we returned from hiking and checked a guidebook. Well it was rare for us.

Constable Bridge, Pine Barrens, NJ

There are miles and miles of sand roads in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Sometimes you stuggle down the road wondering if it will ever end. One such road meets with Constable Bridge. With cameras around out necks we walked one foot in front of the other until we stopped here before turning around for home.

Needles, Pine Barrens, NJ

While walking along in the New Jersey pine barrens we stopped to look for something to shoot. The pattern of these pine needles made an interesting abstract.

Bridge at Somerdale Road, Chews Landing, NJ

Standing along the side of the road, looking at the fall leaves hanging over the bridge at the Timber Creek.

Scullers, Philadelphia, PA

For over a hundred years people have been sculling the Schuylkil River in Philadelphia. One, two or four crew members will take to the water and together they will swiftly move from start to finish.