Our last stop of the week long West Virginia foliage tour was Hawks Nest State Park. We stayed at the lodge for three days for tour the park itself, the nearby Babcock State Park for Grist Mill and the New River Gorge areas including New […]
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West Virginia Foliage Tour 2020 – 4 – Grist Mill at Babcock
Glade Creek Grist Mill at Babcock State Park is a popular photo spot that usually draws many photographers in spring and autumn especially latter. It is popular in the fall for the colors surrounded the mill if the timing is right. However, the water in […]
West Virginia Foliage Tour 2020 – 3 – Valley Falls
We visited Valley Falls Sate Park in Fairmont this morning. It is a beautiful park with water falls and the rapids and looked especially nice with foliage colors. But the most rewarding experience was to see ever changing fog and rain mist in the woods […]
West Virginia Foliage Tour 2020 – 1 – Blackwater Falls
We started our week-long drive tour to peep the fall colors of the wonderful state of “Almost Heaven” West Virginia several days ago. Our first stop was Blackwater Falls State Park in Davis. Although we have been here a number of times but we really […]
Early Signs of Autumn 2020
September 22 was the first day of autumn 2020. I went to National Catoctin Mountain Park, where President’s Retreat Camp David is located yesterday. It’s a 30-40 minute drive from my home in Frederick, Maryland. I knew it’s early for the fall foliage here but […]
Misty Great Falls – 2020.9.22.
Today is the first day of autumn 2020. The air temperature dropped to the high 30’s and with river water temperature is still relatively warm in mid-60’s that means a good chance of seeing river mist coming out of the water. I made a special […]
Great Falls in Black and White
Great Falls of Potomac is one of my favorite photo spots in the Washington, DC area. The rocks are in grey and black color (except during morning sun) so it’s ideal for B&W photographs.
Street Photography in Kenya – 2013
Recently I posted my series of “street photography” for seven countries I visited in the last decade, namely, China, Vietnam, Morocco, Peru, Myanmar, Turkey and Namibia. Somehow I forgot about Kenya where we took a safari trip in 2013, primarily we only visited the city […]
Monocacy Aqueduct of C&O Canal
With just one glace of the Monocacy Aqueduct, visitors are struck with the magnitude of this marvelous seven arched structure. Located at milepost 42.2, the Monocacy Aqueduct is 1 of 11 water bridges along the 184.5 miles of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical […]
Carroll Creek Park in Frederick, Maryland – 2020.7.25.
It was cool and pleasant, for change these hot summer days so I took a morning walk at Carroll Creek Park in downtown Frederick yesterday. Water lilies and lotuses were blooming so beautifully that I have never seen before. There were also plenty of dragonflies […]
