This shot features the Lititz park train station and Christmas tree. I lit the building and clock on the right with flash and backlit the tree to get some of the falling snow to record in the shot.Thankfully I captured the fresh snow in the foreground right away because about two minutes after I shot this a young couple decides to walk right in front of my camera and make tracks through the snow. There was 10 feet in front to walk by and thirty feet behind and they picked in front,which figures. I was on top of my game this evening and got several shots I was rather pleased with.

Every year the employees at RLPS architects gets together to create an extraordinary gingerbread village. Each year a theme is picked and each person is tasked with a structure and this year the theme was Mt Gretna, which is in Pennsylvania and it is a very unique village of neat bungalows. This is the first shot from one small section this year and if you look close you can see Santa in the living room relaxing while his elves are busy outside.

This old home is one I pass quite often and I have photographed it a few times over the years. I was at an auction a year or two ago and saw this fence coming on the auction block but it was all rusty and despite that fact I thought I would still bid up to $500 on it? Well it shot past that so fast I knew it was hopeless but I recognized the one bidder as the owner of this home, so I crossed my fingers he would get it and lo and behold he did. He had some serious work to get it this nice and when I saw the snow hanging on it, I felt it just needed to be captured. One huge problem here is it sits right near the road and there is one of those super reddish/amber street lights glaring down, so fighting that terrible color cast is a real challenge. I shot this in the dark except the ugly street light shining on everything. I hope I can get something even nicer this winter so I can include the ornamental gate but the snow was better in this area so I opted for this angle on this visit.

This was taken this past weekend in Lititz,Pa, and includes the snow-covered pine trees that they place along main street around the holidays. I blasted my flash from up the street facing toward my camera to try and light up the falling snow and it worked perfectly. Go ahead,take a walk back in time as the snow hits your face and Christmas music plays from the town square. The lighted building on the far right is an authentic English pub that is absolutely gorgeous inside.

This past weekend included a great clinging snow and the timing was perfect. It started snowing Saturday morning and continued into the evening and the reason this is perfect is because often times the cleanup crews wait till it stops to clear sidewalks and this was exactly the case. I was out for five hours Saturday night and then could not sleep because I was thinking what I could get Sunday morning so I woke up at 3am because I could not sleep as my mind mulled over my options. I just talked a friend this week who asked if I was doing anything Christmas related with the local town this year and this was the perfect chance to fill that request.This shot took an hour to do as I started in the dark around 5am and lit all the trees and buildings and then had to wait for some color to appear in the sky. Often times snow like this falls off right away but I had a good 24 hour window to capture some neat scenes.

This barn and windmill sit at the center of this foggy morning shot in rural Lancaster county. I think if I had found this twenty minutes earlier,the rays might have been more distinct at the suns lower angle.

When I was here several years ago there were a couple of moose here but no such luck this autumn morning.

This scene in Rockport Massachusetts is referred to as Motif number one. I was there in the middle of the day and have much nicer shots than this but it is always nice to revisit neat places like this.

This scene was something I saw while driving across a long bridge and despite traffic going at least 55 mph,I decided to park at the end of the bridge and walk to the middle to shoot this.I am not a point and shoot kind of guy , so of course I had to set up my tripod on the edge of the bridge , all the while cars flew by about six to eight feet away. For shots like this, I would go for it every time.

Purple on one side and yellow on the opposite provide a very pleasing display of autumn color in this field of flowers..

Mom is warm and the daughters are cool so you know who is who.

The three sisters seem to be trying to convince the youngest sister that it will be okay to take a ride on the rocking horse,but her face is not really showing that she believes them.

This young lad was cruising the back roads after a big tractor event nearby. He was hauling a remote-controlled monster truck in the back to further impress the crowd with the mowers pulling power.

The two Amish boys are being closely followed by the three young ladies in the fancy cart.

Mums are stacked up at this local farm stand and provide a nice framing element for the two passing buggies.

I always liked this local church but the wires are a bit much for my tastes. I overlooked them to capture this image as a fall storm was passing in the background.

I think this might be the first time in my travels that I have ever seen Amish put clothing on a rack for sale along the road. I should have bought some because I think I have a secret desire to become Amish but then again I would not look that good in a dress.

Sunlight and fog combine to creates these rays of light that shine down on this trail through the pines.

This was a real spur of the moment shot as I pulled up to a stop sign in small town Intercourse Pa,and saw these three Amish girls on some sort of cleaning excursion. I had enough time to roll my window down get three shots off and they were out of sight behind the bushes on the left. They are almost in perfect sync with their stride.

Heavy fog envelopes the landscape and creates layers of depth.This is in a local park and while I was shooting here,joggers would suddenly appear out of the mist and just as quickly they would fade from sight. The sun made an appearance and was subdued by the heavy fog.

Four Amish women lead the way up the hill to the farm in the distance were church service was being held on this particular Sunday morning. Notice the women stay close to converse while the boys spread out.

I took this image last night for two reasons.The first was to see what it might look like with luminaries here in the winter, and the second was to illustrate what you can do with a little imagination and effort.The top photo is what I envisioned here and the bottom is what it looked like when I first got there. As the light level drops, the colors change and the interplay of light and dark changes and becomes more balanced and there is a certain point where everything is as close as possible to perfect. I knew I wanted to light the trees to reflect in the water and was kind of surprised my tablet and remote worked this far from the camera when I was all the way over at the trees with my flash. I also used my tablet to operate the camera on live view to see exactly where to place the luminaries when I had only myself to rely on to place them before it got dark. A few luminaries on the left would have been nice but I did not have time to put any there. The land owner also was very helpful by hiding the cars at the farm on the right.