1938 Peugeot Darl'mat LeMans

1938 Peugeot Darl'mat LeMans, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

This shot is from the Simeone Foundation shots that I took earlier this year. This particular shot is of a 1938 Peugeot Darl'mat LeMans. Beautiful car.

This is an HDR image made from three separate exposures and processed in Photomatrix.

Mantis

Mantis, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Saw this here praying mantis sitting on my fence. I think (s)he was just as interested in me as I was in him (her).

Photograph was taken with a 200mm telephoto lens. There wasn't anything interesting in the background, so I added two layers of textures to give it a little more depth. I would have liked to have gotten a bit more detail on the mantis itself, but it is what it is.

The Canal

The Canal, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Looking down the canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania just after sundown. Every night I look at the clouds and sunset and think about how nice it would be to shoot by the canal. Of course, the one night I actually get my act together and go down, no clouds in the sky and less than average sunset. Oh well, beautiful place for a summer's night stroll.

Damn It's Hot

Damn It's Hot, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Another picture from Las Vegas. It really was quite hot.

Mandalay

Mandalay, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Sorry for not posting anything for a few days, but I was away for a bit. Take a look at the photo above and see if you can guess where.

Bottles

Bottles, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Also went on a tour of the Philadelphia Brewing Company on Saturday (three brewery tours in one day = good times). This is a shot of their bottling machine. I highly recommend the tour to anyone in the Philadelphia area. Cool brewery and they have a great bar upstairs that functions as their tasting room. You can hang out for as long as you want and taste as many of their delicious beers as you want. Makes for a good Saturday afternoon.

Yards

Yards, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Toured the Yards Brewing Company brewery on Saturday. Turned out to be a private tour, which was very cool. Nice small local brewery and quality beer, although I don't know that you can get it outside of the Philadelphia area.

This is one single shot. I made the beer tap its own layer in Photoshop in order to make it stand out a bit. For reference, here is the shot as it came straight out of the camera.

A Story To Tell

A Story To Tell, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

It's very difficult to feed a flower through a typewriter.

The Cabin

The Cabin, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Valley Forge National Park outside of Philadelphia. General George Washington camped here, although I'm fairly certain not in this replica cabin, built, I'm guessing, sometime in the last 20 years. However, you are free to make your own conclusions.

This shot is a three exposure HDR image.

Void

Void, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Ok, this is my last shot from Eastern State Penitentiary. I really like the colors and textures in it, so I'm sharing it with you. Hope you're not too burnt out on the prison shots, but what a cool place to shoot.

Happy Wednesday.

Torment

Torment, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

This is my first self-portrait. I had the idea as soon as I processed "Eye of God" below. I thought that lone table sitting there was cool, but wouldn't it be better if it was me instead of that table?

This was tricky, as I had to take the self-portrait with the same exact lighting as was coming through the window at the top of the cell. This required me sitting in my garage with a halogen lamp hanging from the garage door opener above me and the camera mounted on a tripod on a table to be at the correct height.

One the shot was taken, I removed the table and added myself. The shadow is as taken in my garage. I have a few other shots with me in various different poses, but this one was my favorite. Maybe I'll post the others later.

The feeling in this shot is meant to express what I feel like sitting in my office at work every day :)

Click here to see the same shot much larger on black.

The View Up Broad

The View Up Broad, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

This is the view looking north up South Broad Street towards City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Every night for about the past year, the buildings have been lit up in different colors, which makes for great night photography.

I actually work right behind where I was standing when I took the shot. Don't know why it took me so long to get out there and actually do it.

Eye of God

Eye of God, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Interior of a cell in the Eastern State Penitentiary with a lone dresser inside. The only light the prisoners ever got was through the window on the top aptly called the "Eye of God."

This will be either the last or penultimate shot that I have from Eastern State. Really a cool place to go visit. I recommend it to everyone.

Hopeless

Hopeless, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

Another shot from Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'm about 90% sure this is a view down Cell Block 11, one of the "newer" cell blocks.

Some info about the Penitentiary from Wikipedia: Designed by John Haviland and opened on October 25, 1829, Eastern State is considered to be the world's first true penitentiary. Its revolutionary system of incarceration, dubbed the "Pennsylvania System" or Separate system, originated and encouraged solitary confinement as a form of rehabilitation.

The Pennsylvania System was opposed contemporaneously by the Auburn System (also known as the New York System), which held that prisoners should be forced to work together in silence, and could be subjected to physical punishment (Sing Sing prison was an example of the Auburn system). Although the Auburn system was favored in the United States, Eastern State's radial floor plan and system of solitary confinement was the model for over 300 prisons worldwide. The name "Penitentiary" comes from the word "penance". The original goal was for prisoners to want to open up to God, thus seeking penance.

I decided to take this picture and add some texturing to give it more of an ominous feel. I think it worked.

The Road

The Road, originally uploaded by M. Rosenberg.

I've always wanted to take one of those shots where the yellow lines in the road stretch off into the distance. Unfortunately, the road here went down hill, so I didn't get the lines stretching off as far as I would have liked. The clouds were very dramatic though, so I like the way this turned out. As if you couldn't tell, I removed all color aside from the lines and the blue sky.

This is one of the roads that winds through Valley Forge National Park outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Very cool park to wander through on a nice day.