SteelStacks – Bethlehem Pennsylvania

Bethlehem Steel Stacks HDR Image

SteelStacks in HDR It’s been a bit of a slog getting back into photography. Picking up the camera again has been difficult, tedious and ultimately rewarding. This morning I took a drive down to Bethlehem and stopped at SteelStacks to get a few shots to ‘reboot’ my creativity. I ended up staying for an hour […]

Longwood Gardens – Nightscape

Night Water - Lillies at Longwood Gardens

Longwood Gardens at Night Yesterday was my birthday, and my wife and I spent the night in Philadelphia so that we could attend the Longwood Gardens Nightscape event – a sound and light show using the natural surroundings as a backdrop and canvas put together by Klip Collective. As for the show, it was ok, nothing to rant […]

Where the Troll Lives – Plotagraph Pro

PoltaGraph of the underside of a covered bridge in North East PA

Plotawhat? Plotawhere? Plotagraph – Animated Photos Came across a pretty interesting software package today over at Trey Ratcliff‘s Stuck in Customs blog. Trey is one of my favorite photographers, and he is also the one that turned me onto my PeakDesign gear, so I trust him when he gets jazzed on a technology. Essentially, Plotagraph […]

Photos in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Jim Thorpe Train Station, Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania. ©2015 John P. Hoke

Photographs: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania Part of the “joys” in moving a blog from one site and application to another is going through the photos and playing with them, and reposting some. Here are four I took a couple years ago and retweaked in onOne PhotoSuite and Lightroom. These were all taken in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, about […]