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Visiting New JerseyAs you have seen before in my blog, New Jersey is not all city. A number of old deserted railways have been turned into paths for human-powered locomotion.
This is the Columbia Trail which starts in High Bridge. Below is the bridge that crosses the Ken Lockwood Gorge.
Often you find old reminders of days gone by, like the train station here in Califon.
Along the Delaware River there are trails on the east bank in New Jersey with bridges that cross over to the trail along the canal in Pennsylvania.
See below how the canal is transported over a tributary of the Delaware River.
At Lumbersville, Pennsylvania, there is a footbridge to take you back across the Delaware.
There are historic towns, like Clinton with its old mill and picturesque Main Street.
So now you have seen another side of New Jersey. Late summer
Late summer brings us:
And:
The last flowers of the year:
A beautiful sunset
And next will be fall. Not to rush the seasons. The above photos are all jpegs from the Fujicolor X-E3 with the Kodachrome II simulation mentioned in a previous post. Here is how some of the RAW images look processed with the Provia simulation:
Founder's Day 2019 - Paris Hill, MaineYearly, the residents of Paris Hill, Maine have commemorated the founding of their community with an event on the village green. For the past forty-one years, the Bahre family, who own the home on Paris Hill which once belonged to Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's first vice-president), open their automobile collection to the public as a fundraiser for the library and museum. This library is housed in the old granite jail. Gathering on the square are vendors with food, art and crafts, music, and, lately, some bring their own classic cars.
Waiting for the visitors at the lower car building.
People return year after year to admire these automobiles which range from a 1914 Baker electric car, to a Harvey Earl Cadillac, to Packards and Duesenbergs, to a recent Bentley.
A beautiful boat-tail Auburn with V12.
Some day I want to make a poster of the next car:
And here is the curator of the collection giving visitors a talk about the 1934 Duesenberg which was on this year's poster. He had just started it up and you could hear it from the top of the hill.
It is an amazing collection of cars. To see them again, wait until next year, or buy a copy of a 2020 calendar we put together as another fundraiser for the Hamlin Memorial Library, 207-743-2980. Karin at Grassroots Graphics in Oxford, Maine has done a great job getting the calendars printed in a very short time. If you were there, leave a comment below.
Below are some of the classic cars people brought:
2019 Hamlin Library Founder's Day PosterThis poster started in the winter. How do you take a photo in the winter in Maine for an event that to take place in July? This is how we did it. It wasn't warm either.
Back in Lightroom and Photoshop, we narrowed it down to two images for a composite in the poster.
The Duesenberg ("bird") hood ornament. Then it went into Photoshop:
This project includes two sizes for the poster and a postcard. The postcard front looks like the poster without the inset image. The back looks like this:
So now when you visit for Founder's Day this weekend (July 20) you can compare the summer scenery with the snow-covered location from the December 31, 2018 photographs. And weather predictions at this point say it will be quite the opposite of a wintry day. We are making another calendar of photos of cars from the collection to be sold as well. You should be able to get them at Founder's Day or contact the library. Email me for details. Maybe I'll see you on Paris Hill this Saturday!
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