Day 306: Traffic Jams - Oct 31. Day 3 of Hurricane Sandy A view from above of the traffic jams - cars lined up to get into the LIncoln Tunner.

Day 306: Stairwell - Oct 31. Day 3 of Hurricane Sandy. Stairwell emergency lights are on so folks can walk the stairs safely. News is spreading that a generator has been set up in the building lobby and hot coffee and power strips to charge cell phones are available there. Now - do I want that coffee badly enough to walk down 20 flights and back up? Temps outside are dropping and it is becoming quite cold inside. Worried about how to keep my two parrots warm. Only three people are on my side of the building on my floor so it is quite isolated up here.

Day 305: Still LIfe - Oct 30. Day 2 of Hurricane Sandy. Afternoon - No power meaning no lights, elevator, water, heat. Even our apartment stairwells do not have emergency lighting. No news, only what I can see below through my windows. Decided to stay positive and take a photo of something that I knew would be edible for a few days as my refrigerator gradually gave up its ability to keep things cold.

Day 305: Hurrican Sandy Hoboken NJ - Oct 30. Day 2 of Hurricane Sandy. The morning after a very spooky night with ferocious wind and rain. This is a view of flooding in norther Hoboken, viewed from my window, and this was not the area most significantly affected. This view is the western end of Hoboken almost a mile from the Hudson River.

Day 304: Hurrican Sandy Hoboken NJ - Oct 29. Day 1 of Hurricane Sandy. Rainy, windy all day but heavier and heavier as day goes on. Hudson River is churning, huge whitecaps which is rare, and water beginning to overflow the piers that I can see at the Northern end of Hoboken NJ. Cooked chicken in the frig and lots of water and fruit and flashlight batteries. Lights start flickering during early evening. Flashes from acoss the river in NYC look like lightning but suspect transformers going out. Finally lost power just after 6:00 PM in my area in one huge burst that left everything dark. This photo is looking out my apartment window at the Northern end of Hoboken which was in darkenss with the exception of a few car lights and emergency vehicle lights. Photo taken through my window and zooming the lens for effect.

Day 303: NYSkyline Night-PreStorm- Oct 29. Unusual night color in the skies over NYC at 10:30 last night.

Day 302: PInk Chrysanthemums - Oct 28. Pink mums for Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge. Good luck to all those in the path of the huge storm approaching the East Coast. Keep safe. Thanks to all who have commented on my images during this past week.

Day 301: Horse and Rider - Eye to Eye - Oct 27. A visit to a horse farm yesterday. This image full of rich color due to autumn foliage but decided to post with sepia tone to focus attention on the connection between the horse and rider.

Day 300: Palisades Interstate Park NJ - Oct 26. Yesterday was yet another cloudy, overcast day. Nice, though, to view and photograph the colorful foliage in the woods. With the threat of a big storm coming, only another day or two and the autumn display will be gone.

Day 299: Autumn Mosiac - Oct 25. Beautiful autumn foliage colors along the NJ Palisades.

Day 298: Autumn Trees - Oct 24. Overcast skies yesterday morning and a light drizzle - decided to take some time to photograph foliage without the deep shadows of sunlight. This shot was taken during a period of a few minutes when the skies cleared. Shortly after, the rain began again.

Day 297: NJ Palisades Fall foliage - Oct 23. Foliage color is changing along the NJ Palisades. This photo taken yesterday from a footpath along the Hudson River.

Day 296: Old Red Mill - Oct 22. Took a ride yesterday on a foliage hunt. Saw some beautiful colors but not in places where one could pull over to photograph. Did get some shots of one of my favorite places though - the Red Mlll in Clinton NJ.

Day 295: George Washington Bridge in Pink - Oct 21. Photograph of the George Washington Bridge taken last night. It is lit with pink lights for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Day 294: NJ Palisades Autumn Foliage - Oct 20. A beautiful day today. Took a ride to the NJ Palisadesa long the Hudson River to check out the status of the fall foliage. It is beginning to be just beautiful. Hope the leaves don't blow off the trees before it reaches peak color.

Day 293: Sunflower - Oct 19. Rainy, foggy, windy today. Probably not a day to get out and photograph so I'm posting one from earlier in the week. This is a sunflower found in a local garden - a holdout from summer. Yesterday when I walked past, sadly it was gone.

Day 292: Abstract - Oct 18. No chance for photos today until evening. This is a 'found' abstract - a photo of part of the wall of a elevator that is scraped down to prepare for repainting. An overhead, uncovered, yellow bulb enriched the colors of the old scraped paint.

Day 291: NY Skyline Sunrise -Chrysler Building - Oct 17. Can't resist these big, bright sunrise days.

Day 290: Yellow Dahlia - Oct 16. Discovered this lone lemon yellow dahlia while out in the neighborhood for a walk. It was huge - as big as a saucer and the plant was over 4 feet tall.

Day 289: NY Skyline Sunrise - Oct 15. Sunday sunrise over midtown Manhattan.

Day 288: NY Skyline Liberty State Park - Oct 14. Today I am posting 2 images from a visit to Liberty State Park. I've had several questions about where to take skyline photos from. Since several folks have said that they are planning to visit NY, here is a list of the best places to get skyline views from New Jersey. The most well known spot for skyline views is Weehawkin NJ. If you are staying in NYC, take the #166 bus from Port Authority to Weehawkin Blvd East. Get off at Hamilton Park for spectacular views. Alternately, one could take the ferry from the NY Waterway Ferry Terminal in NY to Lincoln Harbor. You need to buy round trip tickets at the NY terminal since there is no place to purchase tickets on the NJ side. At Lincoln Harbor there is a waterfront walkway that affords straight on views of midtown Mahnattan. Also, one could take the Path Train to Hoboken NJ and walk along the waterfront there for views of midtown and also to get images of lower Manhattan From Hoboken, you can also get the light rail train to north Lincoln Harbor or south to the Newport area of Jersey City or further south to LIberty State Park where a shuttle bus is available to transport you to the waterfront. Also from Liberty State Park, you can get river trips to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. In my view, late afternoon, sundown and twilight times are the best for getting photos of the skyline from NJ - other than sunrise

Day 288: NY Skyline World Trade Center - Oct 14. Today I am posting 2 images from a visit to Liberty State Park. I've had several questions about where to take skyline photos from. Since several folks have said that they are planning to visit NY, here is a list of the best places to get skyline views from New Jersey. The most well known spot for skyline views is Weehawkin NJ. If you are staying in NYC, take the #166 bus from Port Authority to Weehawkin Blvd East. Get off at Hamilton Park for spectacular views. Alternately, one could take the ferry from the NY Waterway Ferry Terminal in NY to Lincoln Harbor. You need to buy round trip tickets at the NY terminal since there is no place to purchase tickets on the NJ side. At Lincoln Harbor there is a waterfront walkway that affords straight on views of midtown Mahnattan. Also, one could take the Path Train to Hoboken NJ and walk along the waterfront there for views of midtown and also to get images of lower Manhattan From Hoboken, you can also get the light rail train to north Lincoln Harbor or south to the Newport area of Jersey City or further south to LIberty State Park where a shuttle bus is available to transport you to the waterfront. Also from Liberty State Park, you can get river trips to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. In my view, late afternoon, sundown and twilight times are the best for getting photos of the skyline from NJ - other than sunrise.

Day 287: NY Skyline Sundown - Oct 13. One of those times when the sundown light on sections of the NY skyline was just magical in the colors that painted the buildings. The two matching towers are the Time Warner Center towers located near the SW corner of Central Park. The tallest building with the crane atop is touted as the tallest residential building in NYC at 1003 feet. It will soon be surpassed by a building on Park Avenue which will be over 1300 feet high. Clearly new construction is alive and well in NYC.

Day 286: NY Skyline Sunrise - Oct 12. Sunrise over Manhattan. It is getting to one of the few times during a year where the sunrise is within the frame along with the Chrysler Building and soon the Empire State Building from my vantage point. So I'm looking forward over the next two months to getting lots of sunrise photos. Camera settings to keep sunflare effect as that is how my eye saw it.

Day 285: NJ Meadowlands - Oct 11. It was a treat to see sun and blue skies yesterday after days of rain and gloomy weather. Late afternoon sun in the NJ Meadowlands showed a hint of the fall foliage color transformation to come. It will probably be two weeks before the colors fully emerge in this part of NJ.

Day 284: Egrets in the Rain - Oct 10. Went out yesterday in the afternoon rain to do a chore and, since I was nearby, decided to take a detour to my favorite park to see if any foliage color had appeared. Found a group of about 30 Great Egrets feeding at low tide. Could have kicked myself for not having my long lens with me because they were too far away to get close up shots with my small zoom lens. Took a few shots anyway for a record. Then decided to play a bit. This is a cropped section of one shot processed with a Topaz Adjust paint filer. Sorry that the watermark obscures so much of the image,

Day 283: Chrysanthemums for Sale - Oct 9. This table full of pots of chrysanthemums for sale at a farm stand caught my eye yesterfay.

Day 282: Abstract Black and White - Oct 8. Rainy, rainy day yesterday. Took a photo of some iron fencing against the white sky and then played with cutting and pasting pieces of the photo.

Day 281: Autumn Garden - Oct 7. Found this pretty patch of mums while out on a walk in the neighborhood.

Day 280: NJ Meadowlands, Mill Creek Marsh - Oct 6. Late afternoon sun going down.

Day 279: NYSkyline Sundown - Oct 5. Photo Number 2 today of the stunning sky colors over the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline at sundown last night. This shot is looking South down the Hudson River toward lower Manhattan with Hoboken NJ in theforeground.

Day 279: NYSkyline Sundown - Oct 5. Photo 1 or 2 today. After a foggy, smoggy, rainy day this very unusual sundown color appeared over the NY lower and midtown skyline and the Hudson River. I took about 8 shots, mostly of just the sky and within 6 or 7 minutes the color disappeared. You can tell from the lack of detail in the skyline buildings how smoggy the air was.

Day 278: Pink Chrysanthemums - Oct 4.

Day 277: Abstract Fruit bowl - Oct 3. A rainy, cloudy, foggy - a good day for some Photoshop play.

Day 276: NY Skyline Empire State Building - Oct 2. Empire State Building lit up in pink last night for Breast Cancer Awareness month

Day 275: NY Skyline Moonrise - Oct 1. A beautiful, richly colored, harvest moon as it rose over the NY skyline last evening as sundown was ending.