Photographer Stephen Simpson grew up around the active and abandoned mines of Export, PA, once dubbed America's "power city." The grandson of a Westmoreland Coal Company miner, Steve's first teenage photographs were of star trails over the slagheap in his backyard, and Turtle Creek, which the town knew only as "Sulphur Crick."

His large volume of work includes scenes of rural and urban Pennsylvania from the Laurel Mountains to the Allegheny National Forest (www.TakeAVirtualHike.com)

The "boneyard" is the result of frozen water splashed from a roadside puddle