July 12th, 2009

So I spent the day at Long Pond Ironworks in Hewitt, NJ . . . great location! Never new it was there! Here's the thing about this place - it's a pre-Revolutionary War ironworks site. Full of history - in fact, the iron struts underneath the Capitol Dome came from this site! It's under a state of conservation, which is great for preserving the site for future generations, but with blue tarps and modern scaffolding covering some of the buildings, it doesn't make for a whole lot of photographic opportunities . . . that said, I did manage to capture some great shots! I'll post a whole gallery here when I get the chance . . . in the mean time, here's the burned out skeleton of a water wheel that was used to turn the bellows on a giant iron smelting furnace. Would have loved to capture the entire wheel, but it was covered under a huge, white plastic tent structure . . . so I go in close on the details!

Shot with the Nikon 70-200mm at f2.8 with a shutter speed of 40th of a second.