by Isaac W. Golding | Oct 23, 2013 | Fall, falling leaves, Landscape, Locations, Pennsylvania, Photography, Williamsport PA
A seed is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant. The...
by Isaac W. Golding | Oct 22, 2013 | DCNR, Equipment, Fall, Landscape, Locations, Pennsylvania, Photography, Quehanna Wild Area
Macro photography (or photomacrography or macrography and sometimes macrophotography), invented by Fritz Goro, is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size (though...
by Isaac W. Golding | Oct 21, 2013 | DCNR, Fall, Landscape, Pennsylvania, Photography, Quehanna Wild Area
A fern is any one or more of a group of about 12,000 species of plants belonging to the botanical group known as Pteridophyta.Unlike mosses, they have xylem and phloem (making them vascular plants). They have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants. Ferns...
by Isaac W. Golding | Oct 20, 2013 | Fall, Karthaus, Landscape, Pennsylvania, Photography
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR) was an American Class I railroad, founded in 1846. Commonly referred to as the “Pennsy,” the PRR was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PRR was the largest railroad by traffic and revenue in the...
by Isaac W. Golding | Oct 18, 2013 | Fall, Landscape, Locations, Oval, Pennsylvania, Photography
Laziness (also called indolence) is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so. It is often used as a pejorative; related terms for a person seen to be lazy include couch potato, slacker, and bludger. Despite Sigmund Freud’s...
by Isaac W. Golding | Oct 17, 2013 | Fall, Jersey Shore, Landscape, Locations, Pennsylvania, Photography, Sunsets
Atmospheric optics deals with how the unique optical properties of the Earth’s atmosphere cause a wide range of spectacular optical phenomena. The blue color of the sky is a direct result of Rayleigh scattering which redirects higher frequency (blue) sunlight...
