(The Pandemic of 2020 put a stop to my traveling for photography and I found myself either working on projects unrelated to photography or in a fog of unproductivity. Finally at the start of 2021 I discovered some photos were missing from my galleries which pulled me back to my passion. I pulled out some old external drives to locate the photos and found photos from 2008 to 2012 that preceded the start of the website. My photos from Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (NRA) in 2012 fall into this category. )
The Delaware Water Gap is a water gap on the border of the U.S. states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania where the Delaware River cuts through the first major ridge of the Appalachian Mountains. Over thousands of years the quartzite forming the mountain was uplifted and cracked and the Delaware River slowly cut a path down through this shattered and cracked quartzite. Quartzite is highly resistant to weathering – if the quartzite had not been cracked, the river would not have been able to cut its path through the mountain to form the gap. In Autumn the deciduous forest along the slopes put on a colorful show.
