With a weather front pushing through Connecticut last night, temperatures got into the high 50's and lower 60's. Piggybacking with the warm weather was the strong winds with gusts over 60mph throughout the state.  Not the  January weather we are expected to have around here. I went down to to the New Haven area to see if there was any storm damage early this … [Read more...]

It was a great day to take a ride and chesk out how the waterfalls were at Devils Hopyard, in East Haddam, Ct. I was not dissapointed when I saw only a portion of the falls frozen, exposing some nice running water still visable. I put on a neutral density filter and shot away for a few minutes. A great time to go down and see a wonderful Connecticut winter … [Read more...]

With the weather finally getting "winter" cold it was time to go out and capture some ice crystals! The first ones of the year. Not a bad start. The colder it gets the better the crystals!   … [Read more...]

It is very hard to believe that the disaster at the Hartford Civic Center was 35 years ago today. I was a young budding photographer trying to get a portfolio built. Little did I know that images that I took that day would help set up my career path. Here are a few photos that I took of the Civic Center, just hours after the roof fell in under the weight of ice and snow … [Read more...]

A wonderful sunrise Friday morning put the cap on these weeks shooting early morning photos. Three days in a row I managed to get some nice images! This one was with the State Capitol building in the foreground. One of my co-workers said " Red sky in the morning, taxpayers take warning" as the legislative session finished it's first week.     … [Read more...]

While most of the city of Hartford slept this morning, this wonderful moment of beauty passed them by. A 2.1% illuminated crescent moon rose quickly above the city skyline. Morning is the best time of day! The planet Venus is also visible in the lower right. … [Read more...]

Heading into work this morning at about 5:00am I saw this wionderful image of the waning cresent moon eclipsing two steeples of the Emanuel Lutheran Church on Capitol Ave in Hartford. I managed to catch it in between the two steeples.  As it only lasted a few minutes I was glad I had a chance to capture it!   … [Read more...]