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NY Transit Museum – Moving in Time

Black and white image of a vintage subway car appearing to move through tunnels at speed. HDR Photo

I am still going through and processing photos taken last month at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. This is a single exposure HDR image taken with a Sony A7Riv and a Laowa 15mm f/2 lens. One thing I wanted to try was modifying the photo to give it the appearance of movement. Subways […]

Rust, Decay and Beauty

HDR Image of rusting industrial buildings of a former steel mill at Steel Stacks, Bethlehem, PA

About six months ago I moved to Bethlehem, PA from the Pocono Mountains. My new place is on the South Side in the Arts District, a few blocks from Steel Stacks. This is the former home of Bethlehem Steel, which is now a 10 acre facility for arts, events, and of course MusikFest 🤟🏻 When […]

Brooklyn Transit Museum

black and white image of a subway car interior at the NYC Transit Museum - Brooklyn, New York City

A few weeks ago I visited the New York City Transit Museum to take photos of the old subway cars, machines and so many amazing vintage signs. It was a beautiful day out and one of my favorite human beings and photographers took me for a tour of the museum. While it may be on […]

Mother’s Day Present for Me

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! So, I don’t get into this publicly often. I lost my mother to cancer when I was just shy of ten years old, and she was 32. Like a lot of children, my mother was my world, and losing her at that young age has made […]

Happy New Year (and Screw You 2020!)

Sunset over the Remarkables, New Zealand

So it is a couple days into 2021, the hangovers and parties are done with. Here we are, a weekend of settling into the New Year has come and gone. The past 12 months have been a whirlwind of a dumpster fire, haven’t they. Well, I am going to try and leave all that behind […]

Astrophotography and the curse of clouds

Astrophotography of the night sky above Francis E. Walter Dam in White Haven, PA

A couple things going on here on the astrophotography front that I thought I would post about… Firstly, I bit the bullet and placed an order for some new gear. I got a Sky-Watcher EQ6 Mount and a Williams Optics Red Cat scope for use with my Sony A7Riv. Both of these are on back-order, […]

Online Photo Galleries

Online Photo Galleries - Love_Locks_III-John_P._Hoke

Setting up and maintaining online photo galleries, aka “Frustration, Annoyance and Chaos”. As this is predominately a blog for my photography (photoblog), you would think I have a clue on how to best do this. You would be wrong. I started this photoblog years ago, and things grew organically. By this I mean it just […]

Blowing Bubbles on the Thames

Bubbles on the River Thames, London, United Kingdom

Don’t burst my bubble! Due to COVID-19 I’ve not been able to get out much to shoot new photos, but I have a hell of a backlog. This image was captured last year while in London on a business trip. I usually stay on Bankside near the Tate Modern and the River Thames. This location […]

Round Robin… Eggs?

A couple of Robin's Eggs and Hatchlings in one of the evergreens in front of my house

Outside of my dining room window, a robin made her nest and laid four eggs. While doing some cleanup in the yard yesterday, we found that two had hatched. I ran to grab my camera before mommy returned thinking we were trying to steal her hatchlings and pecked out my eyes 😁. I don’t aspire […]

Pixaloop – Animate Still Photos

Pocono Mountain Sunset

I downloaded the free version of Pixaloop (Apple iOS | Android) to my phone a few weeks ago, but never got around to taking it for a test drive until this morning. I loaded a recent photo of a sunset in the Poconos and started to run with it. Pixaloop’s interface is pretty straight forward, […]