This collection of photographs was taken in the Hudson Valley region of New York between 1995 and 2014.
A CSX freight train transporting Maersk containers derailed near Highland, New York along the Hudson River in 1997.
People enjoy fall foliage on the historic Walkway Over the Hudson near Highland, New York in 2012. The former Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge, 1.28 miles in length, was designed by Charles Macdonald and Arthur B. Paine and first opened in 1888.
A North American bald eagle looks out over the Hudson River on a cold winter day in 2006 near Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Hillary Clinton greets Vassar College students after speaking on campus in 2002.
A rainbow appears behind the historic "Queen's Row" apartments on Garden Street in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1997.
In late fall, Japanese maple leaves form a perfect crimson blanket on the ground at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery in 2005.
Richard Imperati, 51, a life-long resident of Poughkeepsie and a local cab driver for more than 30 years, uses three fishing rods in 2004 to catch catfish and striped bass in the Hudson River. Imperati's favorite place to fish is on the former De Laval site just south of Kaal Rock Park in Poughkeepsie.
Thompson Library glows in the evening light on the Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2001.
This view shows the 600 foot central path, or Main Street, inside IBM Building 323 at Hudson Valley Research Park in 2002. The overhead tracking system transports pods containing 300 millimeter wafers inside automated robots. The blue boxes are stockers, which will store the pods of wafers in between processing steps.
A pond of melted snow reflects winter dusk near Hooker Avenue in Poughkeepsie, New York.
The Tilcon Industries quarry on the Hudson River in New Hamburg, New York is viewed from 1,800 feet above the ground in 2006.
A flock of crows crowd the evening sky flying south across LaGrange, New York farmland in 2004.
Stephen Hammond, a once gifted, award-winning flautist, never recovered his health after being repeatedly dusted with the defoliant Agent Orange during Army training exercises in Panama in 1971. Hammond, photographed in Poughkeepsie, New York, died in 2009.
United States Military Academy cadets march on The Plain at West Point during a review in 2003.
After sunset, the sky glows above the Mid-Hudson Bridge in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2002.
A cardinal remains motionless while protected by dense foliage near Spackenkill, New York in 1999.
Turkey vultures keep warm in a tree at dawn near the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York.
A young coyote was captured inside a Poughkeepsie, New York parking garage in 2004.
A young woman carries 25-pound buckets of cement up a hill for ten hours a day at a brick-making facility in Oaxaca, Mexico. In 1998, when photographed, she was earning about $5.50 a day.
The sun sets over the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge in 2008. The historic structure, opened in 1889, would become the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Site one year later.
Farmland with traditional natural boundaries is viewed from about 1,600 feet above the ground near Rhinebeck, New York in 2002.
Examples of ornate 19th century architecture along Main Street in Poughkeepsie, New York as viewed from the roof of the Luckey Platt building in 1996.
A man was lifted out of his shoes and killed instantly by a tractor trailer after standing in the east bound lanes of Route 84 near Fishkill, New York in 2003.
A buck walks slowly through dense foliage in Poughkeepsie, New York after three days of heavy rain in 1999.
The former Hudson River Psychiatric Center located in Poughkeepsie, New York burst into flames after a lightening strike in 2007. Dry hydrants at the long abandoned facilty forced firefighters to pump water from the Hudson RIver.
The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater travels south on the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, New York in 2005.
A Canada goose glides above the surface of Wappinger's Creek with its wings only inches above the water in 2004.
In 2010, raindrops pour from the bronze bust of Franklin Delano Roosevelt located outside the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center in Hyde Park, New York. The Wallace Center is located on the grounds of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
A lone sailboat navigates the middle of the Hudson River at dusk in this 2002 photograph taken from the end of Long Dock Road in Poughkeepsie, New York.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Penobscot Bay, classified as a small ice breaker, travels south on the Hudson River in 2004 as it prepares to pass under the Mid–Hudson Bridge in Poughkeepsie, New York. The Penobscot Bay, stationed in Bayonne, New Jersey, is capable of breaking up to 30 inches of solid fresh-water ice.
The Hart's Village Falls, located on Stanford Road just outside the village of Millbrook, is framed by branches of colorful leaves as foliage across the Hudson Valley reaches its peak in 2007.
Shanice Bell, 7, sat on the curb enjoying the cool rain while adults stood in doorways on Market Street in Poughkeepsie, New York waiting for the sudden downpour to end in 2012.
This 2003 image of the frozen Wappinger Creek was taken from the Main Street bridge in Wappingers Falls, New York. The colors in the ice are a result of mineral deposits in the rocks beneath the surface.
In 1996, the 17-year cicada bug emerged from the ground for its three week spring ritual of love and death. This macro image was taken in a Wappingers Falls garden.
Judy Calcagni, a parishioner at St. Joseph's Church in Poughkeepsie, New York, prays for Pope John Paul II in front of a stained glass panel in 2005 during the noon service at the Polish community's historic church. Many local residents of Polish decent attend St Joseph's.
Roger Baker, an Ellenville, New York farmer, created this giant portrait of Elvis Presley in one of his crop fields. This aerial photo was taken from about 1,600 feet above the ground. Note the small trailer at the upper right corner of photo.
A lone apple hangs onto its branch at Wilklow Orchards in Highland, New York during an early autumn snowfall in 2005.
During a one-day summit at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in 1995, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and President Bill Clinton discuss their views behind the FDR home in Hyde Park, New York.
During a cold winter day in 1998, mist rises above a waterfall in Pleasant Valley, New York.
This view of the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York was taken from 1,500 feet above the ground in 2003.
A man sits outside his apartment on Lander Street in Newburgh as a press conference with New York Governor George Pataki was sheduled to begin on the street below in 1998.
This February, 2004 view of emissions from the Danskammer electric power plant, pictured, and the Roseton plant, not pictured, was taken from New Hamburg, New York looking west across the Hudson River. The visible substance coming from the smokestacks is mostly steam, however the plants emitted 12 regulated toxic substances in 2001, totaling 1.8 million pounds, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Most of the regulated emissions are in the form of hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid. Other regulated toxic pollutants emitted include lead, mercury and other metals. The plants are the top air polluters in the mid-Hudson Valley.
The ornate cornice of the Dutchess County Courthouse is distorted by the beautiful early morning light reflected in the glass panels of the county office building in 2006.
Tom Canavan's watch stopped only minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001. Canavan, who was buried with debris after walking down more than 40 flights of stairs, has not worn the watch since surviving the terrorist attack on New York City. Canavan's watch is covered with dirt and dried blood from climbing through a pile of fallen debris.
This aerial view of a burned out DC-10 cargo airplane owned by Federal Express sits on a runway at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, New York. The plane burned after an emergency landing in 1996.
A dramatic early-morning cloud formation in 2003 shrouds the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Joe O'Brien, 47, an employee with P.S. Bruckel Inc., inspects cables on the Mid–Hudson Bridge more than 300 feet above the Hudson River in 2003. O'Brien, originally from Missouri, has been climbing and painting bridges for 30 years. The main suspension cable that O'Brien is climbing contains 6,080 individual wires.
This little brown bat, with 38 sharp teeth for piercing hard-body insects, reacts to the burst of a studio light in this 1997 photo taken in Poughkeepsie, New York.
The Mid-Hudson Bridge is illuminated by a large burst of fireworks in this 2010 photo taken from the west bank of the Hudson River looking north toward the Poughkeepsie waterfront.
This aerial view of Poughkeepsie, New York, was taken at twilight from about 1,500 feet above the ground in 2012. The Mid-Hudson Bridge is pictured in the background.
A bullfrog sits motionless in an array of colorful fall leaves at Innisfree Garden near Millbrook, New York in 2002.
Brian Patsey, 49, a 28-year employee with Highway Displays Inc., is framed against an abstract splash of fragmented color in 2006 after removing an advertisement from a billboard in Poughkeepsie, New York. The pieces of color paper are left over from countless advertisements glued to the billboard over the years.
Charles Olson, left, and his son, Chris, load bedding hay onto their tractor to care for their cows on a winter morning in 2013. It has been ten years since Chris decided to paint the side of their barn in memory of the people who lost their lives on 9/11. The Olson Farm is located in Salt Point, New York.
The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge is silhouetted against the early morning sky as the first sunrise of the new millennium cast it's light over the calm of the Hudson River. This photograph was taken from Highland looking east toward the Poughkeepsie, New York waterfront on January 1, 2000.
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, is located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The Fisher Center, designed by Frank Gehry, celebrated it's 10th anniversary in 2013.
A hot-air balloonist soars across the early morning sky over LaGrange, New York in 2004.
A man suffering from intense spring allergies in 2005 has an inflamed, watery eye as a result of pollen wafting through the air in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Mia, an elegant Afghan hound owned by Linda Goldstein of Stanfordville, New York, was shipped from Australia to the United States as a puppy. Goldstein is one of the few regional breeders of Afghans.
This is the back of a circa 1940 Benrus watch, valued at about $2,000, that belonged to an American World War II pilot who was shot down and later died after aerial combat. His good friend and fellow pilot secured the watch and gave it to his parents. This image was taken in 2006.
An image of the Vassar College front gate in Poughkeepsie, New York taken from the roof of the school's Main Building in 2004.
This view is from the front porch of a private residence in 2007 with direct Hudson River frontage near Rhinebeck, New York.
Three-week-old peregrine falcons, photographed in 2004 on a ledge underneath the Mid–Hudson Bridge in Poughkeepsie, New York, were not happy to be in front of a camera, considering their mother was anxiously waiting nearby to feed them. Chris Nadareski, a wildlife biologist with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, was visiting the young falcons to place identifying bands on their talons and to check their overall health, which was excellent.
A stubborn maple leaf holds onto its branch during a December sunset near Millbrook, New York in 2002.
Water churns in a glass after being poured from a large pitcher in 2008.