Category: Photography

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Taken with Canon T5i

24mm f2.8 1/4000 ISO 100

On the stage there are some other people, and this one lone figure standing in from of the stage, made me wonder what this story was. I had originally taken this photo because of the clouds behind the stage, and was focused on that at the time. It wasn’t until I went to edit this photo I even noticed I had anyone in shot. Happy accident, as they say.

As is often the case, I go searching for storm clouds or sunsets at Trashmore, and end up with something completely different.

Also, notice his little friend to his left. Good doggo keeping him company.

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Canon T5i

18-55mm @18mm f/4.0 1/2000 ISO 100

In the summer, amusement parks are colorful, shiny and oh so bright.

In the winter, they’re just husks. Skeletons. Bare branches, waiting to bear their garish fruit again come May.

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Canon T5i

18-55mm @44mm f/5.0 1/2500

My daughter’s hands. In the sand. It looked like art to me, not a brand.

I think you understand.

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Taken with iPhone X

4mm, f/1.8 1/950 ISO 20

July 21st is our wedding anniversary, and so this day we got in the car and went all over the place looking for things to shoot. My friend Pete Feds had a shot like this, and I was curious to see how he got down here to take this shot. It’s surprisingly easy, as there’s an apartment complex directly behind me.

That noise, though. In season it’s got to be nearly unbearable.

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All Photos taken with Canon Rebel T5i w/18-135mm Lens

I suspect that along with the Great Seal on Mount Trashmore, this has got to be one of the most photographed things in the city. I’ve certainly taken more photos of this guy than should be considered normal, and there’s a good reason for it. He takes on a different quality depending on the angle, the weather, the light, the background, and his age. He’s been there since 2005, and I swear he gets better as time goes on.

When I was a younger man, this piece of land Neptune stands on was originally the site of Seaside Amusement Park until it got knocked down. It was going to be a hotel until the citizens said no. My Senior year of High School we staged a walkout and walked to 31st Street to ‘Save Our Sun’. If they had put a hotel here, it would have completely closed off the view all along Atlantic Avenue. Cooler heads prevailed, and it became a park alongside the Hotel that ended up being built next to it.

I think he’s beautiful, and I love to sit on the benches across from him and be quiet for a while and watch him age gracefully through the salt, sand, and spray.

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Canon T5i, 18-135mm, no other data available

This is probably my favorite picture of the whole lot. It captures everything I love about the beach in one shot. Sand, surf, and seagulls. I very rarely make prints of my own shots, but I made a print of this, and it’s on my wall.

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Taken with Canon Rebel T5i

18-135mm @135mm f5.6 1/4000 ISO 400

I can’t lie to you about this: When I saw this shot, I said “this is going on my desktop”. And it stayed on my desktop for years. Sometimes it’s OK to take a shot just for you.

I like this a lot more than that Windows XP Default hillside screen, I’ll tell you that much.

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Taken with iPhone 6s, No Other Data Available

I don’t remember the exact circumstances behind this photo, but based on the fact I have headphones on and my hand is on my chin, I’m fairly sure I was editing audio and listening as intently as I can. Most times, when I have to dive deep into the weeds on a piece of audio and work on the tiny little things, I get into this posture. I can’t see for certain, but I’m pretty sure my eyes are closed. Nothing but the sound exists when I’m in this state.

One reason I know that this is 2016 is what I’m wearing. That Fall and Winter I was on a kick that I needed to look more my age, and my wardrobe was more on the business side of business casual. I’m the kind of person that finds something he likes and buys five of it in different colors, because I hate standing in front of the closet wondering what to wear that day. That year it was exactly what you see: Oxford collar shirts and V-Neck sweaters. I also decided to let my hair—what there is of it—grow out after having a buzz cut for five years or so.

I used this photo as my profile picture everywhere for a long time until I decided that people needed to see my face, for which I’m dreadfully sorry.

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Taken with Canon T5i

18-135mm f/5.6 1/2000 ISO 400

These Silos were built in 2001 to help move storm water away from the boardwalk to prevent flooding. They built this in 2001 to protect against hurricanes.

That is not what I see. Because I am of a certain age, I remember watching “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” and this reminds me so much of what their vision of New Chicago looked like, and it looks so out of place with everything surrounding it, to include the vision the people who run this city and what they (think they) want.

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Taken with Canon Rebel T5i

18-135mm @85mm f5.6 1/800 ISO 400

I was walking the trail at First Landing State Park when I came upon this lost hat, and I had to take a picture because it was so odd to find a stray hat out in the middle of the woods like that.

Since I’m reasonably sure that there are no migratory patterns for ball caps that travel from Moab to Virginia Beach that don’t involve a person, I want to know the story of how this hat came to be lost and the person that lost it.