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Mill Creek Park

The Mill Creek Park Trail is one of the newer parks in the Meadowlands.  It’s a great trail that is 1.5 miles long, and features hundreds of tree stumps -  an Atlantic white cedar forest once covered the Meadowlands.  Some of the trees were aged over 200 years!

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Paterson Falls

Did you know that Paterson Falls are the second largest falls east of the Mississippi?

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Laurel / Snake Hill

Laurel Hill (aka Snake Hill) is a giant rock that sticks out of Northern NJ.  I won’t get into the history of the rock, as it’s been covered well (wiki link here), but the mountain has been home to a penitentiary, sanatorium, and a cemetery that was the largest disinterment in US History (Watch the [...]

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Meadowlands

The Meadowlands is fast becoming one of my favorite places to go walk around and take some photos. I took out my 18-200VR and my 135-400mm Sigma and shot some nice photos last night:

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NJ HDR

Not sure anyone knows this, but I run another blog called NJHDR. Basically, High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography brings out colors and textures that normal photos miss. Its a technique where multiple exposures are taken of the same image and them combined in software. I’ve devoted NJ HDR to photos taken in and around NJ [...]

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Sunrise

We decided to get up at 545 and catch a sunrise down the shore. It was freeeeeezing, but worth it:

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The Beach

We had a good time with the kids down the shore last weekend:

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Spring Lake, HDR

Here are some neato High Dynamic Range images from Spring Lake, NJ:

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