Max Loiacono

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A low view of the Miller Mountain Farmstead - The family who ran this farm sold their land including the surrounding mountain to the state to be repurposed into a state forest. This land is low open to the public for recreation!
The timelessly beautiful Nay Aug gorge in Scranton, PA. This waterfall sees numerous deaths each year as teenage thrill-seekers underestimate the current and cliff jump into the gorge. --- Shot on a Pentax ME Super + SMC 50mm f2; Kentmere PAN 400 + Rodinal 1+50.
Taken in an abandoned coal mine. At this point, the main slope splits into two. 2024 Nittany Grotto Caving Club photo contest submission and first place winner.
The Scranton Long Lines tower silhouetted in the sunset. These towers carried long distance telephone calls before copper and fiber covered the country. This was shot with a super-telephoto lens from the top of an adjacent mountain.
Looking down the telescoping walkway of Penn State's Benkovic building. Pentax ME Super + 50mm f/2 SMC.
An explorer looks up into the light while surrounded by ice. This cave is actually a train tunnel that has been abandoned for at least 100 years. The far north portal protrudes from the mountain and has collapsed.
Norfolk Southern train 11Z heading through an icy cut on a blistering winter day. Shot on Kentmere PAN 400, developed with Rodinal 1+50.
The pleasant pattern of the ceiling lights in Penn State's new ECORE building. The fire alarm was going off when I took this, but it was so cold outside that nobody would leave the ground floor.
The common bullfrog. Shot manual focus with the Tokina 100mm macro.
Bellefonte Historical Rail Society No. 9167 departing Lemont on an early fall passenger excursion.