Azaleas provide a pleasing border for your walk to the gazebo where you can then relax and enjoy the view.

My hometown park comes to life with various spring shades.

This church is somewhat unique with it’s A-frame design and the stained glass front is beautifully illuminated in this late evening image.

This little scene is right along the road which is barely visible on the right side. I happened past at just the right time because a few days later the weather had beat them up pretty good. This is two separate properties but I got the owners blessing and the rest is history.

He may be tiny but he is ready to run with the big boys!

While this local Church is very pretty with the Parsonage located right beside and the flowering pink tree to the left, trust me when I say the hideous power lines that were in the original image which I painstakingly removed one by one made this lovely scene downright ugly.

I have always admired the beauty of this local old Church but the way the steeple is mounted almost hanging off the front has always baffled me. There has to be some logical reason why it wasn’t mounted ten feet back but other than it having ornate woodwork in the front, it is a mystery to me. The patch of purple iris shown here was almost too close to the church for a good shot including the church but I am satisfied with this result. An interesting observation I made is no matter where I moved the steeple on that roof it did not look as good as at the edge!

once upon a time there were three brothers who started a hauling business. They ran into trouble when they assigned mechanic duties to the youngest brother and scheduling to the middle brother! The mechanic had trouble keeping his suspenders on so he was worthless on the mechanical jobs and the middle brother liked to take naps most of the day. This frustrated the elder brother who has an expression of disgust.

By looking at these photos you would never guess the front door is about twenty feet from a heavily traveled road. There is a small bookstore across the street that I had stopped in when I noticed the pretty spring color around the house. My mind immediately started imagining what the possibilities could be and how fleeting the shot might be because spring blooms can fade fast depending on the weather. I waited a day because I saw rain was forecast and I pre-visualized the image I was going to try for!

There is a small pizza shop to the left and anyone getting pizza must have thought what a nut job I was shooting in the rain with an umbrella mounted to the tripod. The owners could not have been more welcoming in allowing me to do this series, and they were more than happy to turn on every light on the property if thats what I needed done to get a great shot.

The closed bookstore parking lot provided a great rainy reflection of the home in all its illuminated glory and I am very happy with the result, but one lone parking lot light that was seemingly as bright as the sun came on at exactly the time it was really getting balanced but I was fairly certain I had it in the bag already. The second image is the side yard and the owners have created a beautiful place to relax with friends and family. The third photo features the opposite side of the house where the driveway comes in between the house and the stunning barn that was added fairly recently. The bottom image is the backyard view and includes a beautiful pink dogwood that provided the perfect compliment to the cozy backyard space. I got a small tour inside and the front doors were just beautiful as was the entire space.

The parking lot in the top image did have white parking space lines, a couple orange cones and 2 concrete blocks that I gladly cloned out!

I shot this same location several years ago but I don’t remember the pink dogwood blooming at the same time as the beautiful purple Iris . As usual I requested some light inside and the owner happily obliged. This spot is not as relaxing as it may at first seem because about a foot to my right is a busy road with cars whizzing by. My one tripod leg is literally in the gravel just off the blacktop. I chose to put a few led road flares on my tripod and along the edge of the road so hopefully my camera was not going to get obliterated by someone not watching the road. I fired my camera using my tablet from both across the road in my truck and from the yard when adding flash.

I have been photographing Lancaster County scenes for 40 years and have many great memories of capturing the local Amish and Mennonite communities. Their traditional simple attire always made for great images of a way of life not everyone has the opportunity to experience. A few years ago someone somehow associated with Penn State and its various community off shoots came up with the brilliant Idea to provide these obnoxious orange vests to all one room school kids. The obvious goal was to increase visibility and safety, which no one can argue with, but after seeing a group [the Amish] that tries to downplay attention, it just amazed me they accepted this to the degree they did? Personally I was never aware that any problem existed and quite honestly it would not matter what color you were wearing if someone is looking at their phone while driving. So now you know my stance on obnoxious orange vests and this photo is a rarity for me to shoot but they did coordinate with the vibrant azalea!

This property has what I think is a pretty porch and also a barn/garage on the left. I am standing in the middle of a two lane highway to shoot this but since practically no one else wanted to go out for a drive in this snowstorm, I had almost the entire road to myself to meander about. On a regular day this would be a real undertaking to achieve.

A little wider view of the Historical Society research library. This was a private home years ago and the owners saw my photo here and dropped me a line. They mentioned it was built in 1929, so it’s 100 year milestone is only a few short years away. I hope I look this good at 95 but since I will be below ground at that point its not likely!

This is the research library for our local Historical Society. The flurries were blowing pretty hard and just about every 5 frames or so I had to clean my lens. The Museum is next door and that is where I walked by a room that had a mannequin dressed that no one told me about. This was during an evening shoot there and my mind was already imagining the possibilities! The big clock on the left used to be just up the street at a bank.

We have only had a couple snowstorms this Winter but the ones we were blessed to get have been the clingy pretty type. This Gazebo actually has a copper roof but covered or not this serene scene has lots of appeal. I would have loved to get this at dusk with those lamp posts lit up but this is more than satisfactory I feel!

Large roses in a store window declare Valentine’s day has arrived in downtown Lititz, Pa

I was walking one evening around Christmas when I happened upon this festive porch that had what I thought was a pretty nice doorway entrance. I knocked and they obliged and here you go.

I finally got to give this new found angle a try at this old homestead. I mentioned this in the past but there is a main road just behind the stone wall, but thankfully the property owner I am shooting from is related to the house in my photo so I got a nice clean view without the ugly road!

This local Chapel is so pretty and makes for a good subject almost anytime. We have not exactly been overwhelmed with snow this year but I made the extra effort to capture some scenes while it hung around. The lamp posts came on as soon as the sun set but at that point the ambient light was way too bright yet. So with that being the case all I could do was keep waiting for the light to drop and of course this foreground light kept intensifying by the minute. It got so bad when everything else was perfect that I ended up using my pole with a square piece of foamcore attached to block the horrendous flare this thing was putting on my lens. Pretty much all the light you see on the vegetation and snow was done by me with my flash. When I got here the sun was maybe ten minutes from setting but since I could not decide my angle, I missed that. The thing I did notice was the suns rays were skimming across the snow and plants and although I missed capturing it, I gave my best attempt at recreating what I saw! If it wasn’t for that light skimming across the snow you may never have even noticed there was a path going through the scene.

Here is another room from the Christmas tree event.

A local visitors center all decked out for Christmas!

This looks like a good spot to enjoy a relaxing night with friends, but you may want to bring a set of warm clothes and some blankets! This is at the Lititz Springs inn, which was formerly known as the General Sutter.