Well, not really a duck blind – more of an observation shack and not ducks either, but coming up with post titles is hard…
Last post for now from the latest update to my Meadowlands project which you can read about here.
Well, not really a duck blind – more of an observation shack and not ducks either, but coming up with post titles is hard…
Last post for now from the latest update to my Meadowlands project which you can read about here.
Allow me to repeat the many warnings not to take photographs on railway lines. this is a clearly closed up and disused line or I would not have been taking pictures from this vantage point.
*Down Under the New Jersey Turnpike Overpass
I’m no expert on railroads, but I think this is an abandoned turntable railway bridge
I found a back path up to a fairly good height just below the Turnpike.
Top image taken with the Fuji X-T3 and the 18-55 zoom; the 2nd with the X-T2 and the 55-200 zoom. The latter makes a very nice 13×19″ print.
This scene is more impressive seen from higher where the islands of reeds separate out more distinctly.
The view from the Turnpike is even better (higher) but this is taken from the highest point I could get to right under the turnpike.
For over 20 years I have been making trips from New York, via the Lincoln Tunnel and the New Jersey Turnpike, to visit my in-laws in South Jersey. Each trip I look out the window as we pass, what I now know are, the confluence of the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers with Newark Bay and the Meadowlands, from high on an overpass, at beautiful wetlands traced with the arteries of human industry and commerce and think about photographing the beauty below me. But where to begin? Where exactly am I on the Turnpike? How can I get these aerial vistas other than from a speeding train or car?
This year, finally, as my wife drove, I used Google maps to slap down a marker as we passed. Back home after Christmas, I investigated the area on Google maps. There are various parks in the vicinity, on the shores of the rivers and I decided to check them out. Last weekend I booked a Zip Car and we spent an afternoon in the Laurel Hill Park in Secaucus.
I’m very pleased with the results of my first foray and will be posting them over the next week or so as I travel for business. Some of these images may not be strong enough on their own – I’ll attempt to curate them to work together in small groups. I’m pleased enough with this initial set to think of putting together an exhibition of some kind after visiting the area some more.