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❀️‍πŸ”₯ Cove Haven Poconos Resort ❀️‍πŸ”₯
Some Vintage Fun in the Land of Love

As may have been evident during my reporting on abandoned honeymoon resorts, my fascination with these resorts runs deep. They have got it all: vintage kitsch and aesthetic, bygone-ism, and the gloriously futile attempt to harness the impossible… love … and create its physical manifestation. Being a hopeless romantic, I’ve Read more…


Milky Way Over Lake Tahoe

I found a nice spot next to the lake to shoot for hours undisturbed. Sure, there were plenty of passing cars, but they illuminated the tree tops nicely as they were high above a hill. These clouds look really nice with the Milky Way. I am learning to embrace them Read more…


Underneath the Clouds
Night Sky Around Bridgeport, California

It was kind of a bummer to pass through Big Pine, Bishop, and Lee Vining, thriving stops with plenty of comforts abound, to arrive at the one-horse town of Bridgeport, California. It had little to offer me but an overpriced room with a shared bathroom, overpriced gas and absolutely no Read more…


A Night at Joshua Tree National Park

Looking at these shots from my evening at Joshua Tree National Park, I am grateful I pushed myself to darkness when my body was calling for a motel room. I had originally planned to camp near Mojave, where I spent the day in the sun. But the forecast for the Read more…


Long Island Fun in the Sun

Mermaid scouting we found the most perfect beach. So perfect, so uninhabited that I am not even going to share the location. Just look at these rocks and imagine a beautiful mermaid perched on any or all or them. The water looks almost tropical This will motivate me to finish Read more…


The Milky Way at Hemlock Lake Park

To follow, my successful Milky Way mission at Hemlock Lake Park, just 40 minutes outside Rochester. Though the bright moon was at 86%, it went down around 3 a.m. The pictures I took before this presented as daytime. And though you can see its glow at the horizon still, the Read more…


Long Time, No See, Milky Way 🌌

It has been a while since I saw the Milky Way. So I was delighted to see it immediately as we trekked to the dark secluded sky of Cutchogue’s Nassau Point, on Long Island’s North Shore. Though it sat ontop of one of the very lavish homes in the area, Read more…


Hello Stars in New Mexico

With a really big moon shining like the sun blotting out the Milky Way’s galactic core, I was only able to catch some stars briefly before the moon past the horizon. It was a bummer, but the Milky Way season is a long one… and at this early point in Read more…


Long Island Farm Colony
Kings Park State Hospital
The Beds of Building 93; Thorazine

When Building 93 was completely vacated in 1996, only 1/3 of the massive 13 floor structure was in use. Like many large psychiatric hospitals, the advent of psychotropic drugs returned many patients back to their homes. It was Chlorpromazine, or Thorazine, that was the first to offer mentally ill patients Read more…


Long Island Farm Colony
Kings Park State Hospital
Top Floor of Building 29, The Power Plant 🏭

A quick stop up top of Building 29, Kings Park’s power plant. I was kind of scared by this tremendous half pipe Deep, dark decay Buttons and gages Pretty faded pastels Supplies At Pilgrim State now. I couldn’t resist hitting two farm colonies in one day. But there were kids Read more…


Long Island Farm Colony
Kings Park State Hospital
Building 7, Building 21

The quest to get in all the remaining structures at The Kings Park State Hospital, aka KPPC, continues! Building 7: Medical-Surgical-X-ray Labs & Clinic It was first back to the morgue–on the ground floor of Building 7. From there we spread out into portions of Building 21, the Brooklyn units. Read more…


Vegan in Fairbanks, Alaska
The Northern Lights

In non-scientific terms, the Northern Lights are a glimpse of the Sun’s violent power. Spitting out particles from the corona’s chaos, debris-filled solar wind travels at nearly 42 million miles per hour into the Earth’s ionosphere. The Earth’s dutiful magnetic fields grab the particles, soothe their heads with loving words, Read more…


Vegan in Fairbanks, Alaska
Preparations

Just some random thoughts of preparation as I head out on my journey to Fairbanks, Alaska. Since this trip is, at its essence, a photographic mission, it is worth upgrading equipment to take advantage of the opportunities in the sky. So I rented a more powerful lens from Lens Rentals. Read more…


Long Island Night & Day

You have to cherish a friend with the same child-like sense of adventure, one who can–like you–make almost any situation an opportunity for fun. When a night shoot had us both pulled over by a Park Ranger and spoken to by a concerned man tapping on our car window outside Read more…


Seeing Stars, Seeing TrailsπŸ’«
Camp Hero State Park

After some discussion of star trails in my astrophotography Zoom class, I decided I’d include a star trails mission in my long holiday weekend.. . at the best place for star gazing in my vicinity, Montauk Point. Having gone to Camp Hero State Park just last week but forgetting my Read more…


When the Milky Way Shows Up…

I’m currently taking an astrophotography class given by Amateur Astronomers Association of New York . . and so I have photographic assignments to complete. This week’s was to shoot the crescent moon. But the elusive slither was far less exciting than the faint Milky Way and meteors that showed up Read more…


Birthdaze 2021 πŸ₯³:
Long Island Farm Colony
Birthday Wishes at the
Abandoned Kings Park State Hospital

All I wanted for my birthday during my Long Island Celebration was a trip to the morgue at Kings Park. Am I nuts? Kind of I suppose. But first a waiting in the car selfie on a glorious autumn day… Ok, so the goal was to enter Building 7 again Read more…


Harvest Moon 2021

It’s not November, but September that spawns a monster. The month is marked with a slightly traumatizing transition… the surrender of freedom for employment. And this year it was quite literal. While I adjust and attempt to balance the demands, here is the moon… September’s full Harvest Moon, which seems Read more…


September 11


Through the Night With the Light From Above

With the new moon overlooking Port Bay, New York, the Milky Way came out to play. Merged faces caught by the ultra wide πŸ“· Shooting stars 🌠


Abandoned Letchworth Village
Administration Building Revisited


Abandoned Letchworth Village
Attendants Building Revisited


Abandoned Letchworth Village
Congregation B’nai Israel Revisited

Since I had a car, I thought I’d check in onΒ Letchworth Village‘s grounds. Because when the sun blazes the temperature into the 90’s, nothing is more satisfying then slinking around putrid abandoned decay. To follow, the current state of things–in four parts. This is part 1: Congregation B’nai Israel.


Letchworth State Park (Night)

And with the moonset the enormous blob of white light fell past the horizon at Letchworth State Park, leaving me great conditions to shoot the Milky Way, which seemed to originate from the park’s iconic steel bridge. But while the light was still bright (below), it illuminated the waters around Read more…


Long Island Farm Colony
Inside The Abandoned Pilgrim State Power Plant,
Part 2 🏭

I have been meaning to get back to the abandoned Pilgrim State Hospital power plant since the very strange interaction last February. As with many of Long Island Farm Colony‘s decaying structures, access points are inconsistent. But I thought a grey, rainy early morning visit may increase the likelihood of Read more…


The Milky Way on Long Island’s North Fork

You know how the full moon makes some turn into a werewolf? The New Moon turns me into a wild brog with a tripod. But alas, the slither of land that is suspended in front of Connecticut’s shore is light polluted. Still, some nice faint Milky Way shots: At Custer Read more…