Day 151 - Wild Mouse Coaster

After we got the grandchildren, we headed over to Dorney Park.  Today turned out to be a special day for my grandson, for last year, he was 1/2" to short to ride the Wild Mouse Coaster.  What a disappointed little boy he was.  However, this year he just hit the 48" limit.  Thanks to Mom & Dad for his new tennis shoes, as they helped it meeting the minimum hight.

All images are taken with the EOS-M w/ EF-M 22mm f/2 STM @ f/3.5

The Wild Mouse

Let me tell you those right hand turns where a killer on the thigh.

A look of certainty as we stood in line

 Yea, I made it through the check point.

 Here we go

 Last picture as those turns were killers

although he was saying Wheee

The Log ride

 Ok Pop-pop I drive

 Ok we are ready to go

As we were leaving the park, we saw this

Thanks for Looking

Tom

Day 150 - 3.6 mile walk @ WY-HIT-TUK Park

Today I headed down to WY-HIT-TUK Park for a 3.6 mile walk along the Delaware River.  I have no clue how this park got it's name, so if you know, please feel free to share that information.

Today's images are from today's walk:

All images are taken with the EOS-M w/ EF-M 22mm f/2 STM @ f/3.5

These next 3 images are taken using a Infra Red Filter
on the 22mm lens.  They are of a broken Lock along
the canal.

This next image of a tree and it's reflection in the canal

was created from 7 images stitched together veridically.

Now this next image gives a different meaning of 

monitoring the water level of the canal

The next several images I used a Cokin +3 Close up filter

on the 22mm Lens

A wild Dasiy

A Butterfly

 A Goose Feather

Thanks for Looking

Tom

Day 149 - Joe's

Today I had to head over to the Southside of Bethlehem to pick up some tickets at out church.  On the way home I saw Joe's Barbershop.  Now I have passed this Barbershop at least once a week on our way to & from church, so today I thought I would stop and take a few images.  As I was taking pictures, Joe came outside to talk with me.  A very nice gentleman who bought this business in 1962 from  previous owner.  So as far as he knows, this building has been an active Barbershop since the early 1950's.  A local establishment that seems to be the hub of information on the Southside, for as I was there, the newly elected mayor of Bethlehem came in, swept the floors for Joe and then sat down and talked to the clients there about the previous elections.

So this is Joe's

All images are taken with the EOS-M w/ EF-M 22mm f/2 STM @ f/3.5

Joe is the barber on the left

Thanks for stopping by today.

Tom

Day 148 - A Juggling Act

Well today is another one of those cool very rainy days, keeping you indoors and thinking creatively.  So as I was juggling some thoughts through my head, I came up with this idea of an image.  Although it is only 1 image here, it was really created from 4 images then brought together using Layers in Elements 11. The final processing was done in LR & Silver Efex Pro 2

All images are taken with the EOS-M w/ EF-M 22mm f/2 STM @ f/3.5

Hope you like it as much as I had fun making it ;-)

Tom

Day 147 - Memorial Day

My wife & I had today off.  So we went down to Bucks County and did a 4.2 mile walk along the the Delaware Canal. During this walk I took both the EOS-M and the 5D MKII with me.  Here are the images we saw along our way:

All images are taken with the EOS-M w/ EF-M 22mm f/2 STM @ f/3.5

The next 3 images are of the lock on the canal using a

IR Filter on the EOS-M

This next image is a Pano made from 3 images of

a nice little home tucked along the canal

2 miles into the walk we came across the Uhlerstown

Covered Bridge built in 1837

This next image was taken from inside the bridge

using a IR filter on the EOS-M

My wife is heading back towards the car

These next images are taken with the 5DMKII using a EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L

with a Tamron 1.4X Expander of some species we saw on our walk

A Turtle

Humans

Butterflies

A Guina Fowl

I see you

And the most beautiful species of all

My Wife

Thanks for looking

Tom

Day 146 - Nazareth, Pa.

Today after church, we headed up to Nazareth, Pa to walk around the town.  It was a very quite day with hardly anyone around.  A perfect day to take some images.

All images are taken with the EOS-M w/ EF-M 22mm f/2 STM @ f/3.5

Thanks for stopping by.

Tom

Day 145 - Pennsylvania Thai Night

Tonight I get to photograph the annual Thai Night, hosted by the THAINEPA Association.

All images are taken with the EOS-M w/ EF-M 22mm f/2 STM @ f/3.5

More images of tonight will be posted on my Facebook page later

Thanks for looking

Tom

Day 144 - The Allentown Farmer's Market

Today was another one of those cold rainy days here in the Northeast.  So after lunch we headed over to the Allentown's Farmer's Market to get some steaks for this Memorial day.  So I took the camera with me and took some Black & White images of the market place.

All images are taken with the EOS-M w/ EF-M 22mm f/2 STM @ f/3.5

Are you ready yet???

Thanks for looking

Tom