Roger's Spider

59 Hours...

...and 38 minutes from now the bridge is going to be open!  I took this photo at around 10 a.m.  The fog didn't burn off 'til about noon today.  This a 4 shot panorama.  Click on it for a better view.

Saturday Morning

A View From The Top

Friday Evening At Beauty Mountain

We decided to run up to the gorge Friday evening to see if there would be a nice sunset.  When we got to the Beauty Mountain "parking area" there were 4 other cars there.  That's the most I've ever seen there at once and we've been going there for about 32 years.  All the cars were other photographers that had the same idea as we did.  We were still able to find us a nice rock right on the edge of the gorge.  The same rock where Molly and I left a snowman a couple of years ago to watch over the gorge.

New River Gorge

A coal train heads north through the New River Gorge Friday night under full moonlight and a sky full of stars.

This photo is a 30 second exposure at f/5.6 and ISO 1000.

6 More Shifts...

...and I'll go back to my 1 mile commute.  Woo double Hoo!!!!!

Shavers Lake Sunrise

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;          Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,          And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.          I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

Almost Done!

A crescent moon and Venus look over Saint Albans and the almost completed Saint Albans / Nitro bridge Tuesday evening.

I talked to some bridge workers last Thursday and they said the bridge was going to be done around the end of the month and yesterday the lead story on WSAZ was about the bridge and it's early completion.

I converted this photo to black and white because of all the different color lighting in the area was kind of distracting.  This was shot hand held at 1/17th of a second at f/3.2 and iso 3200.

Purple Mountains Majesty

Sunday morning looking east towards Virginia from Snowshoe.

Rosie the Riveter

Doesn't Everybody...

...sit around and take pictures of their cameras?  Huh?

Weekend Shots

I made a post with this same title back on February, 10th.  Click here to check it out.  All the shots are kind of alike but different at the same time.  A different piece of yellow painted heavy equipment, a picture of the girl in almost the exact same spot but made with a different lens and a photo of our brand new bridge that's almost ready to drive on instead getting ready to be torn down.

Wednesday On The River

We spent all day Wednesday doing some water rescue training.  I made the first photo before we got started.  As you can see, the fog was super thick Wednesday morning. The second photo was in the afternoon when I was driving the boat on the Coal river headed toward the Kanawha.  In the bottom photo Saint Albans firefighter Sean Lowe (left) and training officer James Hill check the operation of the high line we made across the Coal. 

Cat City

Another photo from the car show in Nitro a couple of weeks ago.

Jackson County Courthouse

Happy Birthday Kim!!

I made this photo last Friday evening when we went to The Blennerhasset for a short get-away to celebrate our birthdays.  Kim's birthday was today and mine was Friday.

1100

A photo from last night that I like. 

Waxing Gibbous Moon

Saturday afternoon.