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In November I have had a couple of opportunities to photograph some races. It is always a fun experience to be out on a race course and capture the moments of runners putting in the effort. In early November I was out on the course for the Revenge of the Red Baron. One of the most challenging events the Southern Tier Running Club has to offer. Then at the end of the month I was on the course for the Pie and Glove 5k on Thanksgiving morning.
I just wanted to share a few of my favorite photos from these events.
Photos from Revenge of the Red Baron on 11/2/25.
The full album of photos can be found on Facebook here: STRC Revenge of the Red Baron Race Photos.
Photos from Pie and Glove 5K on 11/27/25.
The full album of photos can be found on Facebook here: STRC Pie and Glove 5k race photos.
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When we planned our adventure of riding around each of the 11 Finger Lakes we had things spaced out nicely so that we could slowly build our distance. We had time between each planned ride for more training and building our endurance as our distance climbed. But as we reached the end of our planned riding schedule things got a little cramped.
After having to delay our Seneca Lake ride because we were sick we were left with a choice. Delay our Cayuga Lake ride at least a week or ride our two biggest, longest, hardest rides on back to back weekends. If we stuck to our schedule we would have just a week between our rides. Would that be enough time to recover and then do an even longer ride?
We decided we wanted to go for it on back to back weekends. We worried that the longer we delayed the more likely we would be to run into weather issues. I for one was anxious and excited to get this ride done.
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The sky is rarely the same from moment to moment. That is except when there is a cloudless sky. And people often exclaim that it is a beautiful day with phrases such as a “bluebird sky”. And for me that doesn’t quite resonate.
Sure it is nice if it is sunny and warms up. But to me a cloudless sky is least interesting and isn’t particularly beautiful. And I don’t really like the feeling of too much direct sunlight on me. Especially as someone who spends a lot of time outside.
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On August 30, 2025 we set out to ride all the way around Seneca Lake. A route that would be over 82 miles. By far the most miles I would ride in a day to that point.
I was getting a little nervous in the lead up to this ride. Our previous high mileage day was when we rode around 2 different lakes back to back for a total of a little over 60 miles. During that day I was like burnt toast. Exhausted and overheated. I got off my bike to walk for the first time on any of our long rides during that ride. How was I going to survive 82 miles in the summer August heat?
We had what was in my opinion an unsuspecting stroke of luck in a form you would not have expected. The week we were supposed to undertake this ride both myself and my biking partner got sick. So we canned the ride for that week and pushed our schedule for our rides back one week. That landed us on 8/30 for Seneca Lake. And as luck would have it the temperatures were much more moderate for the ride on the 30th than they would have been if we had conducted the ride on the original date planned.
We had been getting most of our routes from the Bike The 11 Finger Lakes Challenge website. And one of the things I liked best about that was the routes generally tried to keep you off of the busiest highway roads. The route around Seneca Lake could be pretty simple mostly up Route 14 on the west side Then 96 and 414 on the east side. The route we followed kept us mostly off of those roads.
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I photograph a wide variety of subjects. I do a lot of different types of photography. However, there are still quite a few things that I don’t do.
My photography generally centers around things that I am passionate about it. So if if it doesn’t move me or inspire me, or I don’t find it interesting then I tend not to photograph it. This shapes and informs the type off work I do and the type of art I create.
One thing I don’t photograph very often is man made structures.
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Wow. Photographing fungus. Gotta say of all the ways I imagined photography taking me I definitely did not see this coming. How did this happen to me.
Fungus are interesting parts of nature. And the ones that colonize trees really catch my eye.
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This year a friend who knows me all too well apparently put me in touch with a friend of theirs who had an idea. They wanted to ride around all 11 of the Finger Lakes in New York. And the goal was to do it all in the spring and summer of 2025. Up to this point I have been riding my bike pretty regularly but I have never undertaken a serious commitment of this level before. But I am easily persuadable and jumped in for the adventure.
Keuka Lake would be the first of our Finger Lakes rides where we would cover a distance significantly farther than anything I had done before. I was excited but nervous about how this ride would go. But I had no familiarity with the route or the terrain aside from my experiences driving through the areas, which to say the least is very different and misleading compared to being on a bike.
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I enjoy photographing anything that creates a sense of texture. This can appear in so many different ways. From man made substances to natural occurring phenomena. From enormous mountains to tiny grains of sand.
One thing I often feel drawn to is ice. Ice can occur in so manny different shapes, sizes, and forms. Ice occurs in so many different circumstances.
But the one universal circumstance for ice is that it has to be cold. I often find it challenging to be motivated to go out in the cold to take photographs. And due to that I don’t have as many photographs of cool ice textures as I would like.
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I love to photograph water. Particularly bodies of water in landscapes. More specifically water that moves through a landscape.
It doesn’t have to be a huge flowing river, or a massive waterfall. Even a small trickle over some rocks can draw my attention. And the more opportunities for different photos there are the better. This is why creeks and streams are so amazing. They are abundant. And the landscapes around them can be so different.
My favorite such place is the Loyalsock Creek in Pennsylvania.
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Reptiles come in so many different shapes and sizes. It is a shame to lump them all into one category like this. But it would take too long to write a post about every individual reptile.
I think reptiles epitomize what we think of when we consider life forms that are not like us. They are so different. They live on land like us but in a totally different manner than we do.
