It’s all about the light. You can’t take a photograph without it. Welcome to Laurelight.com: presenting lightscapes and landscapes of the Southern Highlands region of Pennsylvania, covering greater Johnstown, Cambria and Somerset Counties, the Laurel Highlands, the Southern Alleghenies and beyond. Comments are invited and registration is not required. Enjoy the photos.
Excellent coverage of the Windber Dog Run once again by Tomm and Bev Chapman. I’ve included some representative pics here, but you can see the entire shoot on Laurelight’s Picasa gallery.
Thanks to Tomm and Bev for their contributions here and for their community involvement. [Read more →]
Big thanks to Brian @ the Johnstown Cafe for reminding me that Sam’s Run runs through the backyard of my life. Llaurels also go to my big brother, the ‘other’ Balko, who taught me more than a few things, not least of which were the ways around Belmont Hill and the paths to Sam’s Run and Buttermilk Falls. [Read more →]
Just in time for Halloween, and in reference to my recent Grandview post, there stands, in the Lancaster Cemetery (at the intersection of Lemon and Lime in Lancaster, PA) above the grave of one Augusta Harriet Bitner, a statue referred to by the locals as “The Lady in White.” The story is told that on New Year’s Eve, while in preparation for her wedding the following day, [Read more →]
This one’s inspired by, and posted for my friend Karen, whose check is in the mail. I happened to also stumble upon a shot I’ve included for my friend Dave who reminded me a while back that we all live in, indeed, a small world. [Read more →]
My sincere apologies to my friends Tomm and Bev Chapman for the extended delay in posting the photos they providced of the 2007 Dog Run. Here’s hoping they give me another chance with 2008. There are 6 pages of some interesting shots here. Enjoy. [Read more →]
Finally got around to posting the Bike Week portraits. There are 3 pages of thumbnails, so if you’re browsing the individual pics instead of watching the slideshow, the page links are at the bottom of each gallery. [Read more →]
Took a trip through the Conemaugh Gap in June to catch the mountain laurel blooming at the Peach Orchard. Laurel - Laurelight: get it? Enjoy the pics. [Read more →]
I split from the Ohio Street Lounge about a half hour before sunset yesterday and decided to cruise through town to see what I could see, which was a rather pointless exercise since my evil twin Stupid left the camera at home. The light was perfect: that pre-dusk, hazy glow that bathes the valley in gold. I turned from Messenger onto Horner and saw the flashing lights and orange and white barricades [Read more →]
For 30 years, whenever I talked to Mom on the 5th of July, she’d tell me about the crazy fireworks going off in Moxham the night before. [Read more →]
