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Hudson Ruin

2016-Apr-04 adohertyhLeave a comment

Bannerman’s Castle on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River was once an arsenal, and then a tourist destination, before it burned down in 1969 and the island was closed to the public. Now the fortified silhouette of the ruins apparently inspires an incredible amount of use as a hideout for the supernatural in fantasy fiction. Though I didn’t know it at the time I took this picture, this island is one of the major inspirations for Lev Grossman’s Brakebills College. A sunset train ride down the Hudson River is the perfect occasion to stumble on a structure like this.

High Country Ponies

2015-Dec-222015-Dec-22 emceehammrLeave a comment

Rainy Hotel Afternoon

2015-Dec-20 adohertyhLeave a comment

A quick Sunday bonus shot: an alternate view from my window in Columbus, where I also took this shot.

Target Practice

2015-Dec-162015-Dec-16 adohertyh2 Comments

A driving range isn’t complete without a car husk at 200 yards. There’s some sort of great driving/driving range pun to be made here.

Batman’s Entrance

2015-Nov-02 adohertyhLeave a comment

The HDR technique brings out all of the subtle textures of brick and roofing where comic book heroes dwell: on the roofs of fancy hotels. When a supervillain takes the (imaginary) party below hostage, a skylight makes a perfect entrance. Also, a great way to end The Game.

Tower in the Rain

2015-Oct-07 adohertyhLeave a comment

This domed building, poking above the trees and through a sudden rainstorm outside Columbus, Ohio, reminds me of nothing more than a mage’s tower. I bet there’s treasure at the top!

Interstate Through Portland

2015-Sep-09 adohertyh1 Comment

The raised interstate looks like a crown, with bridges for gems, just above the emerging skyline of Portland’s Pearl District.

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Views of the Past

2015-Jul-13 adohertyhLeave a comment

These images are from the Genessee Country Village and Museum, which recreates some of the aspects of nineteenth-century American life. I thought that a bit of black and white photography (with an HDR touch) could be the perfect tool to convey the moment-out-of-time aspect. Here, a balloon is ready for launch.

The old buildings have a smallness to them that I appreciated: the distance between stories was not so large, and they feel on more of a human scale.

Foggy Infinity

2015-Jun-222015-Jun-23 adohertyh4 Comments

Rainy, early-summer mornings in the Adirondacks seem to go on forever. That first step into tremendously cold water, on the other hand, is anything but foggy.

Visit the Sheep

2015-Apr-032015-Apr-03 adohertyhLeave a comment

A bucolic vision of the North country: a field of munching sheep, a barn and silo in the distance, a stand of trees, a simple fence, and a gentle brook. Spring is charming when it finally arrives.

Ghostly Dining

2013-Oct-18 adohertyh2 Comments

In the dining hall of Timberline Lodge (just around the corner from the gorgeous main hall), the imposing wood and the elegant place settings seem immovable and eternal. The human beings floating through, blurry and insubstantial and fleeting, are as ghosts.

Maintenance Building Detail

2012-Mar-19 emceehammrLeave a comment

This shot comes again from the Maintenance Building over the Caldecott Tunnel. It was a gray day and the building is all gray so I decided to play with some HDR in black and white.

Ribeye Pyrotechnics

2012-Feb-092013-Jun-12 adohertyhLeave a comment

Christmas in the Hill household used to mean a big roast. This year, though, the allure of a perfectly-marbled ribeye overcame us, and we fired up the grill on a 20-degree Chicago evening. The flying sparks from the drippings were really captured in the HDR shot. There’s always something particularly strange and foreign in the quickly-varying flames when different brackets are composited together.