F/10.0, 1/60, ISO 160, Photoshop CS6.
Day 7 / 365
When you look in the mirror do you ever feel like you want to change yourself?
Interesting Fact: The first mirrors were often sheets of polished metal and were used almost exclusively by the ruling classes. ( http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/mirror.aspx )
F/25, 76.0, ISO 100.
Day 6 / 365
That photo makes me break out to a Dead Or Alive song.
♪ ♫ You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round ♫ ♪
Interesting Fact: Thomas Edison began to understand the principles of recording and playing sounds in 1877 when he discovered how to play back a recorded message through the telephone. Edison released his idea to the world when he invented the first record player on November 21, 1877. ( http://www.ehow.com/about_5052873_record-players.html )
F/11.0, 1/250, ISO 320.
Day 3 / 365
Sometimes you can get an idea by just turning the light on. 🙂
Interesting Fact: Electric arc lighting, invented in 1809, was much safer but far too bright for use in a small area. A smaller light was needed, and in 1880 Thomas Edison patented the first commercially viable incandescent light bulb. ( http://classroom.synonym.com/important-thomas-edison-invention-light-bulb-6305.html )
F/6.3, 30.0, ISO 100.
Day 2 / 365
To some people it may look like a stairway to heaven, but to most of us it’s just a New Jersey Turnpike. ( Which is no heaven )
Interesting Fact: If you wanted to visit Bruce Springsteen’s hometown of Freehold, what NJ Turnpike exit would you take? Exit 8 is Heightstown – Freehold. But don’t go to Freehold expecting to visit a Springsteen Museum – there isn’t one. According to an article by fellow Freehold native Mark Hyman in “Business Week” in 2000, that’s the way The Boss likes it. Apparently he wants things to be low-key and “normal” when he goes there to visit his old haunts. ( http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/The-New-Jersey-Turnpike-What-Exit-297450.html )
F/11.0, 1/250, ISO 100
This guy enjoying the sunset over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is probably wondering how cold the water is and if he will ever make it across. Or he may be singing in his head a Britney Spears song “Oops!…I did it again”
Interesting Fact: The first driver to cross the bridge wore a rented tuxedo and piloted a “pale blue Cadillac convertible with flags flapping from the fenders,” nabbing the distinction because he had parked behind the Staten Island toll for a week, guaranteeing the position. ( http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/11/25-facts-verrazano-narrows-bridge/ )
F/7.1, 1/200, ISO 200.
This photo of Jarek Polatynski at Empty Sky Memorial really makes me wonder what was going through his head as he was looking at all the names on the walls.
Interesting Fact: The memorial includes twin walls, transecting a “gently sloped mound anchored by a granite path that is directed toward Ground Zero.[2] Two 30-foot-high rectangular towers stretch 208 feet, 10 inches long — the exact width of the World Trade Center towers, the proportion of the walls a symbolic representation of the buildings as if they were lying on their sides.[2] The name of each of the 746 victims is etched in stainless steel in 4-inch-high letters. A granite passage is oriented to face the site of the twin towers.[2][3] The name of the memorial is taken from the Bruce Springsteen song “Empty Sky“, which is about the “empty sky” where the towers once stood. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Sky_(memorial) )
F/8.0, 1/250, ISO 140, Photoshop CS6.
Last night, here on the East Cost, lightning bolts occupied the sky and gave us quite a show. Tonight it is time for the colorful fireworks to put on a performance. Let’s see who will be the winner…
3rd of July
F/3.5, 1/30, ISO800, Photoshop CS6.
Interesting Fact: Only John Hancock actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. All the others signed later. ( http://www.parkrideflyusa.com/blog/2012/07/04/20-fun-facts-about-the-4th-of-july/ )
F/9.0, 30.0, ISO 100.
Seeing this boat in Edgewater, New Jersey, always made me wonder, what is it and what’s the story behind it?
F/8.0, 1/1000, ISO 200.
Interesting Fact: The Binghamton is a retired ferryboat that operated from 1905 to 1967 transporting passengers across the Hudson River between Manhattan and Hoboken. She was built for the Hoboken Ferry Company of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and was designed to carry 986 passengers plus vehicles.[4] Binghamton has been permanently moored at Edgewater, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, since 1971. The US Department of the Interior added her to the National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 1982. Operated as a floating restaurant from 1975 to 2007, the vessel is now closed and awaiting reuse. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_(ferryboat) )
Through Open Lens 