Time flies…when your having fun!

Today is the one year anniversary of  Fotoblography.com! It has been a fun and educational year sharing my photos with you all and visiting your photoblogs as well! I really can’t believe it has been a year already. A year ago today this train was the first photo that I posted to my blog so today I decided to convert it to b&w to give it a more old time feel.

You have probably noticed that I have been doing some spring cleaning too and I am now using a new theme on my blog! I figured after a year it was time for a change. As you may have noticed the images are now larger so I hope they will be easier to see! If anyone notices any bugs I may have missed with my new layout please let me know.

I want to thank everyone for their visits and posts especially the regulars! Last year there were over 2,800 comments on this site which is WAY more then I ever would have imagined when I first started! Having this outlet to share my photos has really meant alot and now when I am out shooting I am constantly thinking if the photo is good enough to be posted or not, and I am taking photos more than I ever have. So stick around hopefully the next year will be even better than the last!

I know its not the prettiest Black Raspberry plant but the berries still tasted good!

These purple flowers have a great front row view of Lake Winnisquam where they can enjoy the action on the lake like the Jet Ski in the background.

I am not sure what type of berries these are but I thought this branch had some character with the red and blue berries and the green leaves.

Here is a shot I took a couple of weeks ago near Lake Winnisquam in NH. There was this big Osprey nest that I saw and just as I was taking my lens cap off the giant white Osprey flew away leaving me with only her nest to take a photo of. Still the nest is pretty cool and very well built so of least I got that I suppose.

I took this photo yesterday while visiting Lake Winnisquam.

I am finally back and posting new photos again. I spent the last week on vacation in Wolfeboro NH on Lake Winnipesaukee and took a ton of photos of the area. Here is a shot of the docks right behind the center of town.

Anyways Sorry I have not posted in so long but I am back now!

I shot this photo on a very calm day by a lake in NH.   I am not sure of the name of the lake but it was near Lake Winnipesaukee.

Here is a shot from a couple of years ago on Wild Cat mountain in NH. This hiking trail is part of the famous Appalachian trail that goes through 14 states from Maine all the way to Georgia.

I thought this small fishing boat had alot of character so of course I took a photo of it. I desaturated the photo quite a bit so the boat would stand out better. I think it works pretty good.

Here is a shot of a stone pier in Kennebunkport Maine.

I forget exactly where this was taken but I know it was somewhere in the mountains of NH.  I was hiking and the trail crossed an active train track that goes through the woods.

Here is a view from my seat of the other fans around me. You can also see one of the scoreboards and the famous Fenway Left Field wall known as  ” The Green Monster”.

Here is a view of Fenway Park from the bleachers during the warmups.

I went to a Red Sox game last night at Fenway Park in Boston MA. It was a perfect night for baseball, not a cloud in the sky and 77 degrees. I was sitting in the Bleacher seats behind the bullpen and here is one of my favorite shots of the night. It is of Mike Timlin from the Red Sox having a chat and watching the game with one of the police officers at the game. Anyways it was a fun time and even more so because the Red Sox won 9-2! I will post a couple of more photos from the game in the coming days so stay tuned.

These flowers were on a largish bush. Not sure what kind of flowers they are but they looked almost fake they where so perfectly shaped and delicate looking.

Last summer while hiking in NH I came upon this old stone wall in the middle of the woods. There was nothing else left except rubble but I found it interesting that this one wall and window were still in relatively good shape. I have no idea who used to live there but this wall of least still stands as a memory to someone’s old cabin.

This empty playground at the top of a hill/sand dune was overlooking the ocean and it seemed like a strange spot to have a playground. Of course it was the winter when I took this picture so maybe in the summer more people use it but on this day of least it seemed that it may as well have been in the middle of nowhere.

I am not sure exactly what kind of plant this is but I thought the soft fluffy white stuff at the top looked a bit like cotton candy. Anyone know what kind of plant this is?

I took the ski lift up to the summit of Wildcat mountain a couple of years ago and here is the beautiful view from the top. It was kind of a hazy day but I found converting the image to black and white actually helped to show more of the surrounding mountains then the color version did. Be sure to click on this image to make it larger because it is kind of small on the page so it would fit.

It was a beautiful fall day in Maine when I took this photo. I was taking pictures of the fall foliage when I saw these two rowboats all by themselves in this small bay. It sometimes gets boring just taking pictures of trees in the Fall with nothing in the foreground so this was a bonus finding these rowboats!

Here is a shot from downtown Newburyport, MA. This old time soda shop / newspaper stand seems to be a relic from the past that has been frozen in time and preserved for today.

I took this photo of this old and weathered house in Kennebunkport Maine. It must be nice to live literally right on the water like that. It was a very calm and peaceful fall day as you can see by the reflections of the house supports.

It was a very rare day in January when I took this photo. It was 75 degrees out and people were out and about enjoying the day. It was almost like a summer day there were so many people walking around enjoying the weather. People were flying kites, walking their dogs and acting like it was the summer. I saw this cool kite someone was flying that looked like a pirate ship and the sky was so blue that it almost looked like the ocean. The way the wind was blowing on the reeds almost makes them look like waves as well.

I took this shot while on vacation at the White Mountain National Forest in NH. The falls are 64 feet high and the spray is pretty powerful in person. I tried to make the photo a little more unique by including the rock ledge in the foreground. I also have a bunch of photos without the ledge but for some reason I like this one the best. Maybe its because this is the view you get in person when you are first rounding the corner of the trail and see the impressive falls for the first time!

I took this photo the same day I took this other slightly more original reflection shot that I posted a couple of weeks ago. Still I am very happy with this one as well even though it may be slightly cliched.

I took this picture in the fall while at Kennebunkport Maine. I tried to frame the sailboat between the two twigs on the shoreline and overall I think it worked. In the distance you can make out some of the fall foliage along the shoreline.

This is a picture I took a couple of years ago on the top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. It is the famous cog railroad that takes you to the top of the mountain. The color really pops on this one and I like how the action of the smoke pouring out of the chimney and the water pouring onto the track is frozen in time. I was really lucky to get this shot as I was on a different train going down the mountain and I had to take this picture out of the window. Came out pretty good considering imo!