As many of you know I’m a photographer for Yankee Magazine and I blog there (as well as here). In an attempt to improve my writing I took a travel writing course over the past month and one of the things I found during the course was this link to webcams in Africa. Now you may be thinking one picture every hour updating… Not here, try a full live feed! I watched elephants come trotting through… OK! they didn’t trot but they did amble at a fast pace… The camera is focused at a water hole since that is where the animals tend to congregate. You can see different cameras set up at preserves and the animals are really cool to see in their habitat unrestrained by chains or fences which is our normal zoo view…

Here is the link if you missed it above Africam or Africa Cam.

I just found another fantastic webcam link on the Old Farmers Almanac website. This one is a webcam of an eagles nest and currently as of writing this one of the adult eagles is sitting on the nest and it looks like three eaglets are in the nest. they are a just a bunch of soft downy gray feathers right now but it will be neat to watch them grow up…

Take a look and enjoy

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You can follow Vistaphotography on Twitter to chat about cameras photography and as we progress into the fall I put on the mantle of Fall Foliage Pundit Jeff Foliage for Yankee Magazine, talking everything Fall.  Also I have a fall foliage fan page on Facebook (click here!)

BUT since it’s still summer and fall is 60 some days away I’ve been out enjoying the summer like weather doing what I do best, taking pictures… You knew that was coming…

Instead of  chatting all the way through I’m just going to post some scenes from local gardens and you can tell me what you think..

Well I hope you enjoyed the shots and remember if you want to see my online galleries please click here to go to see some pretty nice artwork.

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The year in pictures, from Marblehead 4th of July fireworks to a full moon over Nubble Lighthouse at Christmastime and fall foliage in New England to boot.

I thought I would pick a few of my favorite pictures from 2007 and sort of recap the year in photos.. It’s really hard to select just a few but I’ll do what I can. The first is the Marblehead light with their 4th of July fireworks in the background.

The next is Situate Lighthouse with a ominous sky overhead. The sky was dark and menacing rain but it held off and finally the sun dropped below the cloud bank and lit of the scene but let the over head clouds dark. This has to be one of my all time best photos of a lighthouse. (You can find it here on my site)
I travel for Yankee Magazine all through the fall in New England and this takes me over hill and dale I never did find Dale?? But this has to be the most enjoyable job you can have. Doing something you are passionate about and getting paid for it.

The next next shot is from my favorite time of the year (FALL). I love the gift of color that we receive in what always seems to be the shortest season of all. This shot is up in Vermont just off route 89 at the Sharon exit and you follow 32 south to where it joins 14 and you have the location of this bandstand/Gazebo

The fall color change was later this year and Lisa and I went to Vermont in the middle of Oct and we found color all up and down the lake Champlain region. You see the closer you get to a large body of water the warmer the temperatures will be. so even though much of Vermont may be past peak you can still find lots of color on route 7 or route 2 which passes down the middle of the lake, hopping from island to island.

I was up in Vt many times this fall and one thing I look for are festivals that don’t show up on the radar. I like to look for ones, obviously that will make for great photographs and one thing that always gets my attention is the ones that I can get real nice reflections either during the day or at night.

I found a small pumpkin festival in Jericho Vt. The Cilley Hill festival was started about 15 years ago by Ann and Richard Squires.  They grow between 400-600 pumpkins on their farm and then the friends, family and the local boy scouts get together around the middle of Oct to cut up all the pumpkins and on the 30th/31st of Oct, they light them for all to see.

If you get there early you can see if not help light the pumpkins and as night descends on this road, for that is all it is.  This is a few familys that enjoy getting together and putting on a show for whoever drives up Cilley Hill Road.  But park your call and walk in because it’s so much more fun to take your time and really look things over as the light fades and the night deepens.

At Christmas time, I caught a full moon over Nubble Lighthouse in York Maine on the evening they were turning the Christmas lights on for the season. I had forgotten to check when they were doing this and happened to drive up on the first night they turn all the lights on… Can you say crowds? Either way it’s a great photographic opportunity so bring your camera and tripod and extra gloves and a thermos of hot chocolate… It gets real cold out there.

Thats it for now, I have many more photos to share with you, so be sure to check back and let me know the ones you like.

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