I am really excited to announce this! My photo shown here just won the 2012 Vermont Magazine Photo Contest. Thank you to Vermont Magazine and a special thank you to Green Mountain Camera for making this contest possible. Here is a direct link to the photo contest.
©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!One of the great things about living in New England during the late fall and winter is that there is never bad light. When you are down south you really cant shoot from 10 am to 2 pm because of the harsh overhead light. Up here the shadows are always long and the light soft. None of that really applies to this photo, I made it late in the afternoon in Provincetown.
©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!This is a nice little lighthouse in Eastham Ma. Loved the sky on the day I shot this on. The jet contrails made a perfect X with this nautical beacon. I must admit I have fallen behind on my posting as I have been working on a huge print job. The good news is I am almost done!
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I thought I would throw my hat into the HDR ring. I prefer my HDR’s to lean towards the more realistic side. This is a tree I shot on our trip up to Vermont. three, one stop brackets. It was on the Jenne Farm property. I thought it really captures the twig season up here in New England.
©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!I thought I would throw everybody off with that title. Soon enough I will be back to shooting the rustic beauty of New England. For now let these photos from the Virgin Islands warm you up. I don’t know the name of this bay, each one seemed more amazing then the last. This one, though, had a perfect curve to the tree line. It is as close as you can get to the golden ratio curve.
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Tomorrow is a travel day for me, so this is kind of a quick post, just because I have to get back to getting stuff together. This is a photo of August having a blast on a huge slide. The location was a apple orchard up near Boston that had some amazing agritainment to go along with our autumn harvesting. One of the side effects that the slide manufacturers keep from the general population is that these gravity rides will build up some major wattage on your offspring.
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OK, Ill admit it, I meant to write-up a post yesterday but I got side tracked with Halloween. Also, I was preparing for playing the role of school photographer today. Yes, I will be shooting the children at Cape Cod Children’s Place today! I am super excited! Needless to say, I scrambled this morning to put up a post. Here is another photo from our Vermont trip. Really is hard to make a bad picture there.
©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!This is one of those iconic New England scenes of rural decay. A shack slowly decomposing into the green mountain landscape, contrasted with dark gloomy skies and white birch trees. Thankfully Vermont is peppered with these deteriorating structures, they are one of the regions great photographic resources.
©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!This may be an east coast cliché. They say Jenne Farm is the most photographed farm in the US. You may recognize it from a Budweiser commercial, Forest Gump or even the great Chevy Chase comedy Funny Farm. The farm has become a mecca for photographer, especially in the early morning light. This image was captured at sunset. We had traveled up to Woodstock for the weekend, I was so excited to shoot the farm I raced over right before sunset. Lucky too, because this was the only sun break of the weekend. It is not exactly the shot I dreamed of, but it definitely captures the quickly changing weather of New England.
©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!We found this cute guy at the Sugarbush Farm in Woodstock Vermont. He was very friendly and great with kids. My son had a great time petting and feeding him. He even came out of his stall to play with us for a little while. The farm it self had a maple syrup and cheese tour and tasting, but since August knew there was a friendly cow outside, he refused to let us partake. Needless to say though, we had a great time wandering around the property on a crisp autumn day.
©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!It is hard not to reflect on your own self convictions when you go to Salem. Giles Corey was pressed to death. It took over two days for him to die. When the pressure from the stones being added to his body forced his tongue out his mouth, his captor pushed it back in with a twig. All Giles had to do was plead guilty and he would not have been put to death. If he was found guilty he would loose his valuable land, actually it would be turned over to the government. He died in full possesion of his land and was able to pass it on to his sons. Corey’s yelled his final words, “More Weight!”
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©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!This weekend Sarah, some friends of ours and I went up to Salem Massachusetts to get a jump start on the season. We had a great time walking around the town and checking out the oddities that inhabit this historical town. This was my first trip to Salem and I must say it was not at all what I expected. It is always described as a sleepy little fishing town, this is not really accurate at all. Actually It feels quite city like. Not down town urban, but very developed. Even though it was what I had envisioned, it was a great trip and I look forward to our next adventure up there.
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©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!The season is upon us to spend a bit more time in the graveyards. I personally love them, it is something that missing from the west coast landscape. While there are cemeteries out west, they are much more uniform and organized then their counterparts on the eastern seaboard. Nothing beats the New England cemeteries, It is easy to stumble upon markers with dates going back to the 1600′s. The layout of these graveyards seem sporadic and random. I also love the weathered art work adorning these beautiful stones. They are usually decorated with sculls, angles or just graphical designs. Some people may find it morbid to spend time in these locations but I find it extremely peaceful and a great way connect with our past. Anytime is a great time to visit but they are magical in the autumn. I hope to have many more moody grave site photos in the next few months.
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©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge!After moving from California, the last thing I would have expected to find on Cape Cod was a Winery but, here it is! I am by no means a wine connoisseur but, I have spent plenty of time with some in many renown wine regions and honestly this one can hold its own. Funny thing about the Cape, come early fall it seems every day of every weekend there seems to have some type of charity walk, race, bike challenge or just plain old get together. On this typical New England day we found ourselves at vineyards celebrating the Truro Treasures, wine stomp and jazz. We had a splendid time eating great food from local vendors and enjoying the regions finest fermented fruits.
You may have noticed yesterday that there was no post. I spent the day opening a virtual store so that you can now purchase prints directly from In Between Stops! Please take the time to have a look. Click here!
©Rob NitschI thought we were full steam ahead into fall but this week it looks like mother nature decided to lock up the breaks, and throw us into a wild J-Turn! She even set the climate control to humid! This is a shot of a road side stand that is a couple miles from my house. During the summer it is full of vegetables but, come early autumn it is full of amazing flower arrangements. The stand is unmanned and the prices are listed on a small hand written sign. You may take a vase to transport your fresh cuts home. This is the honor system though and you are asked to return the vase after. It is kinda nice seeing people put that much faith in others. I am happy to say this type of commerce is not uncommon on Cape Cod.
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©Rob NitschWhat photographer in their right mind could walk past this wall of lobster buoys and not fire off a bunch of photos? Well I sure didn’t have that will power. It is really neat because you are first drawn in by the color but, it isn’t saturated color it is quite faded, like a muted rainbow. Then you realize you are really looking at a wall of amazing textures, one that is perfect for a mid afternoon shot. One of the rare times this is a good idea for photography. Finally it hits you that there are few things more synonymous with the New England coast then the lobster trade and you can bet the fishermen that marked their traps with these buoys are just as weathered.
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Even though I am on The Cape now and surrounded by some of the most beautiful landscapes and sunsets on the planet, I am still posting pictures from our cross country trip. Well, I will be honest with you, I haven’t gotten much of a chance to go out and shoot. Mostly my time has been occupied by relocation tasks, car insurance, car registration, home insurance, dump stickers, dump trips, unpacking, ect. I am slowly finishing all that though and am ready to start my daily shooting. Oh, and the photography business is taking off a little faster then I expected. I have spent the last few days processing photos from two different shoots, that happened in one week. So. I guess I haven’t been completely off the photo track, just working on the busy work. I hope you enjoy this boat picture from Glacier Nation Park. These rafts seem like they have seen a lot.
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Here is a photo I meant to post a while back but the Apple gods disallowed it. On first day on our cross-country road trip I spent the majority of my time at the genius bar. It was a simple fix and I would have done it myself but all of my tools and disks were locked up in a 18 wheeler headed east. Well I thought it was simple, actually it was a symptom of a drive dying, which it did, conveniently on the last day of our road trip. Well, I had a room full of cardboard boxes stacked to the ceiling, I still had no idea were any of my office necessities were. Back to the Genius Bar. The drive died and the monitor connections were on the fritz, so I bit the bullet and sent it to electronic doctors in Cupertino. Long story short all my trip photos were on that drive. Luckily though, I am a stickler for backing up, every night on our trip I backed up the machine, so nothing is lost. I have been with out my photos though, luckily my wife had some uploaded to her site so I could grab this one. Which a photo I made at the Farmers Market back in Seattle. Seems like years ago since we were there but, in reality, it was only about five weeks.
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Talk about pre-visualizing an image, when Sarah and I started planning our trip across country months ago, this is the photo that immediately came to mind for me. Even though we were planning stops at all these amazing National Parks and scenic locations this was the photo I knew I wanted, A low angle shot of August in the redwoods of California. Funny too, This was the photo I knew I had to get, but I wasn’t sure my 24mm would capture it, so not only did I need to make this image but I needed to get a wider lens too! Funny how that worked out for me. To make this, we put August up on a felled Redwood and I got nice and low so that I could capture the perspective of these monstrous trees. I went with the natural light, seemed like the right choice for a natural setting like this.
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At the end of the day when the shadows get long and the tourists slowly return there water craft of choice, the lake takes on a peaceful mirror like quality. It seems even the most rambunctious children find an inner peace in order to pay respect to body of water that gave them an unforgettable day, for tomorrow this glacial lake will exhaust them all over again.
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