Random Pics

Just some random pics from Flickr because it’s Sunday and what the hell, right?

Glen Ellis Falls

Here are the pics from the second waterfall we visited on our mountain get away. Why take my word for it when you can let the site itself give you the info…

It says it’s a 600 foot walk. It was. They didn’t tell us it was vertical. It was almost all stairs. It was so worth it though. The river alone was worth it.

This is not what we came to see.

I want to go back with my tripod and take long exposures all day long.

This is a bad shot, but you get the idea. This place is awesome.

Again, this is not the main attraction.

This is the waterfall itself as seen from the top. I totally need a wide angle lens for stuff like this. I also need to be able to hover so I can actually look down on the scene instead of just leaning over with the camera strap still around my neck.

We were at the base of the falls here but I need a wide angle lens. I couldn’t get the whole thing into the shot. Not even close.

This is a little more like it.

And there you have it. The highlights from our stop at the Glen Ellis Falls. I would go back there in a heartbeat. Preferably with a wide angle lens and my tripod. This place was fantastic.

Landscape Mode

Did you know that the Spark Video app only works in landscape orientation? I didn’t.

I had to fix this video of Glen Ellis Falls in iMovie. That’s why it doesn’t fill the frame.

Glen Ellis Falls

I took three videos with my D90 at the Glen Ellis Falls. They all kinda look like crap, but I cut them together in iMovie and uploaded them to Vimeo anyway.

Enjoy(ish)

Jackson Falls

This is one little piece of Jackson Falls in Jackson, NH. It was recorded using the Spark video app on my iPhone.

One More from the Concord River

Yesterday I posted the long exposures from my two stops on the Concord river. Here’s the best of the rest.

Under the Old North Bridge.

Up stream from the bridge.

A spider web that I couldn’t really get focused on.

There was a tour group there as well as a number of other people visiting. I tried not to get them in the shots, but I sometimes failed.

This is a 30 second exposure that I missed yesterday. I was hoping the tour group by the British monument would have moved around more. Oh well.

Again, some damn tourist got into my shot.

The “Shot Heard Round the World” was fired over that bridge.

I’m not sure how much, if any, of this bridge still remains from 1775. Let’s just pretend it’s all original, shall we?

The Minuteman monument.

The… other monument. I have a picture on Flickr somewhere that includes the inscription. It’s right next to a memorial to the fallen British soldiers, so I assume that’s the side the Redcoats were on when the shooting started. The Minuteman is on the other side of the bridge, so that must be where the colonists were lined up.

I saw a few kayaks, but they were kind enough to stay out of my damn shots.

I like the look of the water here.

And now we move on to the Middlesex Canal in Billerica, MA. My phone rang twice as I was standing here and I didn’t hear it at all. It’s a pretty loud little water fall. I don’t recall there being so much debris here the last time I visited.

The water dropped over the falls and hit something right there that made it spray straight back up again. I couldn’t tell what it was.

The North Billerica train station on the MBTA Lowell line is right around the corner from here, and there’s a renovated mill building with a bunch of businesses. There are a couple of abandoned buildings too.

Ducks!

This is one of the most lily pad infested stretches of river I’ve ever seen. Assuming, of course, that those are actual lily pads.

A gazebo.

The view from that tower would be better without all the power lines, but what can ya do, right?

That’s the mill building across the street.

That black blur near the top of the smoke stack is a bird, not a UFO.

One last look.

There you go. The Concord river.

Another Random Wednesday

Don’t ask me about hockey. I’m not over it yet. I’m going to need some time to get over that epic of a choke.

I can’t think of a topic for this post, so here’s a picture…

I have finally come across a camera accessory I want to get that isn’t a new lens. I want to get my hands on a neutral density filter. I want to go over to the Spicket Falls Dam and take a nice long exposure, and I want to do it during the day. I want the motion of the water to blur together. Pictures like that are cool, and I want to take at least one cool picture before I die.

Picture this, only with the falling water all smoothed out.

Yeah. Cool.

I also want to get a Forest Lake parking permit. I think I can do that tomorrow during lunch. Maybe I’ll bring my camera along for the ride. Maybe I’ll make a lunch ahead of time and eat it by the water. Maybe.

I also want to get a few more songs recorded before July 4th comes along. July 4th is the start date for the FAWM 50/90 challenge. Write 50 songs in 90 days. Yeah, right. Maybe I should change it to the 10/90. That might be more manageable as a summertime project. There was also talk of a bunch of RPM Challenge participants doing some sort of mini-challenge this summer. I thought it was going to be in June, but the site has been down for maintenance every time I’ve gone to it. Today is no exception.

Oh well. I’ll figure something out.

My 2012 in Pictures – Part Deux

Yeah, I did a my-year-in-pictures thing the other day. It was fun. What the hell, thought I, why not do it again? This time I’ll run fast and loose with the whole one-pic-from-each-month thing. I’m crazy like that.

We have to get our pics of the Sands Bridge in Methuen before she collapses. Or maybe I should say before she finishes collapsing. It’s already started. Also, I don’t think I found a relative in the Grove Street Cemetery, but who knows?

In February I finally finished an RPM Challenge on time. It only took me five tries. We also got a new bed. Jen’s penguin approved.

In March, the kids and I became wilderness explorers. Hipstamatic came along for the ride. Actually, we just wandered around in the woods behind our house for a little while. It was fun.

April in San Diego. I want to go back RIGHT NOW!

May gave us baseball, Bar Harbor, and my first up close New England Lighthouse.

The picture pickin’s are slim in June, but we did get a new Rush album (and it is awesome) and we got another fantastic piano recital from the kids.

July offers more choices after a spontaneous trip to Boston, and a week long stay in Maine that included some time in the mountains of New Hampshire.

In August we went to the Top of the Hub for the first time in my life. The views of my city were spectacular. We also spent some twilight time on Hampton Beach.