Day 60: River Arch
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Lowell
It has been a long time since I’ve done any serious shooting in Lowell, Massachusetts — the city I grew up in. Probably since before I started this blog. That drought came to an end this past Saturday. I knew I needed to get out and shoot and wanted to shake it up a little. …
A River Runs
A long exposure shot of the Merrimack River flowing through the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts. In it’s heyday, the river would have been lined with many more mills with smokestacks billowing dark smoke into the atmosphere from fires generated by this same river — all part of the plan: To harness the power of the …
Night Falls
I have a few shots of this waterfall, but this — the first — remains my favorite, taken back in 2007. It is the Great Dam on the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The massive granite dam was built in the mid 1800s to harness the river to power the textile mills that built the …
The Fury
Here is the scene under the bridge at Lawrence’s Great Stone Dam this past Friday night. The calming effect of a long exposure on water doesn’t do it justice, but does make an interesting image. The water was only inches below the concrete platform — about three feet higher than just a week ago. On …
Pawtucket Falls, Lowell
Every once in a while I revisit some older images to see if I got everything I can out of them. When I started shooting in RAW format a couple of years ago I did not know its potential. I also had not yet discovered HDR processing. In the summer of 2006 I went to …