This weekend I got together with a few of my online photographer friends and we decided that it would be a good idea to take the tour of roosevelt island which was part of the Open House NY weekend. It didn’t take long for us to realize that we wanted no part of the official tour and broke away from the pack to do our own thing.

I didn’t take nearly as many pictures as I had hoped I would, but I did manage to get a few decent shots.

There are a few more here.

I had a little time to play around in lightroom again last night, so here are a few more shots from our trip to Cape Cod this summer.

You may recognize this lighthouse. This is a different crop and much different processing than the first version.

After only 2 months I finally got around to adding some more pictures to my NYC gallery.  Here are a few of the new ones. 

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You can see the entire gallery HERE.

I am just learning to love shooting in abandoned spaces and I have a feeling this one is going to be very hard to top. The Yonkers Power Station, sometimes referred to as the Glenwood Power Station was built in conjunction with Grand Central Station to provide power to the railway. It was shut down in the 1960’s and has been abandoned ever since. Recently there have been proposals to turn the plant into apartment buildings so this may have been one of my last chances to shoot in this space.

Set right on the Hudson river this is a tremendous building and make for some amazing pictures. Getting in was fairly easy as there had obviously been many many people here before us. This time we were ready for the dark conditions and lugged our tripods with us.

This was an amazing day of shooting, my first “real” ruin. Just navigating the space was a challenge, but much of the work was done ahead of time. Missing sections of stairways covered with metal grates, makeshift ladders and ramps all over the place. With all the catwalks and stairways and ladders, I felt as if I was transported into a video game and was thinking to myself, this would make a great Halo 3 level.

D200, Sigma 10-20mm @10mm, F11.0 1.5s, ISO 100
The first of 3 buildings was full of large expansive rooms which were pretty much empty.

D200, Sigma 10-20mm @10mm, F22.0 2s, ISO 100
Wide view of the massive central building.

D200, Sigma 10-20mm @11mm, F5.0 1.1s, ISO 100
Looking up at what appears to have been the main control room.

D200, Sigma 10-20mm @11mm, F5.0 1.1s, ISO 100
Making are way up, we eventually reached the main control panel.

D200, Sigma 17-70mm @17mm, F5.0 1/30th, ISO 100
One of the many arched windows.

D200, Sigma 17-70mm @70mm, F5.6 .5s, ISO 100
There was plenty of rust to go around.

I could go on forever, but I’ll leave it at that for now. For the rest of the pictures visit the gallery here.

My wife and I took a week long vacation to Cape Cod and I managed to get a few shots of some of the many lighthouses that can be found there.

D200, Sigma 17-70mm @50mm, F8 1/250th, ISO 100
Highland Light, also referred to as Cape Cod Light, located in Truro.

D200, Sigma 17-70mm @17mm, F7.1 1/200th, ISO 100
Nauset Light is probably the most photographed lighthouse on Cape Cod. It’s the one on the potato chip bags.

D200, Tokina 70-210mm @210mm, F8 1/250th, ISO 100
Long Point Light. This lighthouse is on the very tip of Cape Cod and cannot be reached easily. This shot was taken from a boat during our Whale watching trip.

Stay tuned for more pictures from this trip, once I get around to processing them.