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ClearSpring Pictures represents the photography work of the Williamson family team.

ClearSpring Pictures

provides photographic art for your walls (and wallets). We are friendly and affordable. We use only modern professional digital equipment and techniques. Our ordering process is easy and fast, based on a web-based gallery system.

What we do best:

Portraits (both studio and location)

Family groups

Weddings

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10-09-06

Times Square Bus Driver

03-04-08

The blue door

10-23-06

Capitol rotunda.

Doing some follow-up at capitol today. Took a few architecture shots.

01-31-07

Lincoln Tunnel.

Don't ask . . .of course I practice "safe photography".

:~0

01-03-07

Feeling "old".

Not me personally. Just trying to recreate the look of "old".

01-09-07

Can't think of a creative title . . . must have burned out my limited creative juices on the shot . . .

03-08-08

Mud Sale

I live in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. One thing we are known for is our large population of "Old Order Amish" people. Yes, these are the folks who avoid the modern conveniences that most of us enjoy. No cars (only horse drawn buggies), no electricity, no telephones, no buttons or zippers in their clothing. We have about 30,000 Amish neighbors in the county.

A friend and I visited a "Mud Sale" today. What is that, you ask? It's a large springtime sale and auction of everything from farm equipment and horses to antiques and quilts. I'll give you a guess why it's calles a Mud Sale (consider the season and probability of certain weather trends).

I would estimate that there were more than a thousand Amish folks at this event. I tried to be discreet as I photographed. Photographs of the Amish are considered "graven images" in their view. Just the same, this was a very public event and including them in some shots seemed appropriate and within the bounds of acceptability.

Here's one shot of an auctioneer selling goods to an interested crowd.

When I do my PS work on these, I'll post a link to the rest. I'm leaving on a business trip tomorrow so it will be a few days from now.

07-31-06

Sunflowers

Hershey, PA

12-01-06

"Celebrate the season".

Christmas lights display. Zoomed while handheld shooting.

11-17-06

Old railroad bridge, Harrisburg, PA

Misty morning after yesterday's rain. Cooler and much more fall-like.

Edit: The Walnut Street Bridge also known as The People's Bridge, is a truss bridge that spans the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Built by the Phoenix Bridge Company in 1890.

The bridge was built to break the toll monopoly enjoyed by the neighboring Camelback Bridge (now the Market Street Bridge). The Walnut Street Bridge was closed to motor vehicles and converted to a pedestrian and bikeway link to City Island after the 1972 Hurricane Agnes flood. The eastern span of the bridge is outlined in lights which, along with the City Island facilities, create a dynamic visual effect at night. The 2,801 foot (854 m) span is one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world. The conversion to pedestrian use gave the bridge a new purpose and it used by over a million visitors, tourists and residents annually. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also recognized as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Street_Bridge_(Pennsylvania)

11-22-06

No Swimming . . . . indeed!

Gray, rainy day. The last few days have been gray, moody pictures too. Not really reflective of my mood.

01-23-07

York, PA

Okay, I'm liking this "painterly" approach to image creation. This one is not a montage like the previous version fron 1/21. My photo image, but I did still use the stock "texture" files supplied on the CD that came with the magazine (see 1/21 for more info).

So then I tried using my own creation texture files (and one I found online).

Here's the result (different look and feel - even more impressionistic):
http://cspics.smugmug.com/photos/125089649-L.jpg

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