Just outside of Stowe, VT is a haunted covered bridge that spans the Gold Brook, called the Gold Brook Bridge but referred to locally as Emily’s Bridge. This 50-foot bridge was built in 1844, and local legend states that one…
Across the lake, in neighboring Plattsburgh, NY, a couple of Michiganders named Eula and Garth Otis opened a hot dog stand. The year was 1927, and nearly 100 years later, the “Michigan” remains a regional favorite in and around Plattsburgh.…
Vermont is bordered on the top half of its western edge by Lake Champlain. There is a bridge at the top of the state, a bridge midway down, and for the 85 mile stretch in between the only way to…
If you’ve ever taken a photography class in college, odds are you’ve had one of these in your hands. The Time-honored “perfect student camera” is a title often applied to this camera, as well as the Canon AE-1 and, occasionally,…
My first grown-up camera was a Pentax Spotmatic that my mom gave me in my senior year in high school. Before that, I had used various cheap point-and-shoot cameras that used 110 film or, for a brief period, disc film.…
I’ve been working on a photo study of the “Color of Burlington” where I explore a lot of the colorful and offbeat nature of Vermont’s largest city, and this first installment is the first in a series about the flamboyantly…
One thing I’ve learned from flipping through page after page of negatives I’d shot, is that I seem to be drawn to using water as a Subject in my composition. I see photos of water splashing against a rock at…
Mid March is considered late winter around here, and the beginning of “mud season.” The air is still a little brisk, and there are still patches of snow on the ground in the shaded areas (and mud in all the…
When driving through Jeffersonville, VT we like to stop at this farmstand for raw milk, on this trip one of the cows heard visitors and wandered over to say hello.
Winter can be a trying time for a photographer in Vermont, and most assuredly, for a motorcyclist in Vermont. So while my bike is in storage I take my “cage” out to explore and photograph scenes in Vermont. I live…