Merrimack River this Morning – 30 Second Exposures

I can’t take the damn camera out of the damn bag without screwing the damn filter onto the damn lens and opening the damn shutter for 30 damn seconds.

The water seemed a little choppy as I was setting up, but it doesn’t seem much different. I mean, it’s nice and glassy and smooth and all, but it’s not a huge dramatic difference.

The wind did interesting things with the branches in the foreground, but that’s not really the goal. And it’s sort of distracting.

The water is pretty cool here, but I lost the shore to the shadow.

There was a ton of traffic on the bridge, all of which was blurred into oblivion. Sweet.

And with this we end the forth post I milked out of about 45 minutes of wandering around town. Sweet.

Merrimack River this Morning

There’s a parking lot right near the 110/113 rotary on route 93 that looks like it might once have had a boat launch but it’s pretty much fallen apart now. It’s been on my list of places to go to to shoot some Merrimack pics and today I finally stopped there.

This is what Fall looks like.

This might be my favorite of the bunch. It’s just the leaves reflecting on the water.

We haven’t gone leaf peeping in New Hampshire this year, so I just went ahead and did it at home.

Back to the Spicket

I posted the other day that someone else on Flickr posted a picture of a smashed up dock stuck on the Spicket River just above the dam. I went back today and again failed to come within a million miles of the great pic posted to Flickr.

This is the best of the new pics. Not that it’s good.

The reflection in the water is almost nice.

These are probably better than the first go around, but still not good. Was it fun? Yup!

There will be two more posts from this morning’s goofiness. One is pics from the Merrimack River, the other is 30 second exposures from the Merrimack River.

Go Red Sox

Pretty Guitars

@gibsonguitar posted this today:

Who has a pretty guitar to show us? (Tell us the model and year, too.) Got the #retweetfever!

— Gibson Guitar (@gibsonguitar) October 22, 2013

I responded with this:

And with this:

No one retweeted me. Probably because all humans suck. (not you guys though, you’re all okay)

What a Difference Some Fog Makes

This weekend was Jen and my second tour of the Breakers, the super huge house in Newport, RI. The first time was in April 2011 on a spur of the moment stop on the way home from a Rush show in New York.

It was super foggy the first time, and we practically had the joint to ourselves. The second time was a nice happy, sunny fall day and there were people crawling all over the place.

Fog

No Fog

Jealousy

DSC_0049, a photo by robj_1971 on Flickr.

I took this pic in May of last year. Today, another Flickr user posted a pic of this washed up dock and it is approximately 93,487 better than this.

I am so freakin’ jealous. I think I’m going back there tomorrow to take another shot. It’ll still suck, but maybe it will be better than this. Probably not.

The Breakers in Newport, RI

We went to The Breakers in Newport, RI today. This is the Vanderbilt family’s summer cottage. It’s a freakin’ palace and they called it their summer cottage. I’m hoping the four of us can move in within the next couple of weeks. We will use it year round though. We don’t have quite enough money to just use this in the summer.

Full Moon Again

Same shot, without the crop.

We missed the partial lunar eclipse tonight. We were at dinner. We wouldn’t have been able to see it from our yard anyway. The trees would have been in the way.