Ithaca, New York

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Cornell Business Park

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The first few shots were just some trees in the Cornell Business Park where I work.

Fall Creek, The Plantations, and the Cayuga Nature Trail

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Then I went to the one-lane bridge on Caldwell road by The Plantations at Cornell. I took a few shots of the bridge, then of Fall Creek from the bridge and the bridge from the bridge. Ithaca's one of those places where you can have a one-lane bridge and people can figure out how to take turns. Plus, as cars drive over it, the metal makes a low-pitched, mystic, monk-chanting sort of sound.

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Then I took two shots at The Plantations. This is the area where we used to play ultimate frisbee a few years back. It's also good for sledding.

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Then I drove along Forest Home Drive that winds along Fall Creek and took some pictures of the creek. There was a funky, little A-frame hut by the creek, I think it's related to where Cornell gets its water, but I only took film pictures of that one.

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Then I took some shots by the suspension footbridge that crosses Fall Creek.

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There's a footpath, the Cayuga Nature Trail, that goes beyond the bridge. There were berries on branches that were snow-covered. I tried to take some pictures of them, but the digital camera doesn't have a good close-up range. Maybe the B&W photos came out better.

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I took a few shots of the bridge and the creek from that.

Mt. Pleasant

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Then onto Mt. Pleasant. Since it was higher up, it was foggier. I took a couple shots of some barn silos in the fog. They looked pretty cool, just barely visible in the (not so far off) distance.

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The dead-end sign looked just too cool to pass up. The first shot was just from the near part of the intersection. The second was farther back, zoomed in, so everything is hazier. It's the effect I was looking for, but it's a bit hard to read the sign. I like how there's almost no color except for the sign. And, of course, that the fog makes the sign seem even more descriptive.

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I tried to have the "ominous figure by a fence in the haze" shot, but those didn't really work out. Basically, I'm not ominous enough. OK, so the first time I ran to the fence, my leg sank into the snow up to my knee and I did a face-plant. Not ominous enough. The other two just didn't really work well and with the timer, there wasn't much time to pose.

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Then I took a few of "the ominous figure walking in the fog" which worked out a little better. Self-timer, Frank hitting the button and then running like an idiot away from the camera while counting, then stoping, trying not to fall over, turning around and trying to look like he was walking towards the camera. I rather like the second shot.

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Then a cool tree at a T-intersection in the road at the end of Mt. Pleasant road. I like how the tree is so vertical in the picture and that the yellow sign is the only color really visible in the shot.

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Some cows (or bulls or something like that, remember, I'm a city-boy). They seemed oddly puzzled by me.

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A field and some trees on the way back.

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