2023

Walking in NYC, you never know what you will find. Was at brunch with my family ad had a few minutes outside with the iPhone and saw this scene (in color of course), but thought that it would make a good scene. No distractions, no wires. Nothing but pattern. I had to straighten it up a bit in Lightroom mobile, but after that and a bump in contrast, I thought it turned out very nicely.

Just a few snaps of street scenes in Sacramento. Not candids, but actual photos of the street with the fall leaves. I was really taken by the contrast of the concrete, metal conduit, and freshly fallen leaves. Olympus E-M1 mk 2 with the ever-mounted 12-40/2.8 Zuiko lens

In Sacramento, we were at the CIM Marathon and this was a railing that stuck out to me as interesting. I think it’s very interesting the things you find as a photographer. I guess if you’ve taken photos for 48 years as I have, I’ve gotten tired of the normal sunsets, flowers, or pets. I tend to look for interesting subjects in mundane places. Given that I work from my home, I don’t get out as much as when I worked in NYC, so wondering around places within a few miles of my home can be boring. It can also

Was walking around the town of Westfield, NJ with a couple of black and white film cameras and came upon this scene of a bunch of cans destined for recycling. The Westfield Fire Department has a giant wire-framed container with soda cans destined for charity recycling. I forgot to look whether there were any beer cans, but most are soda cans. I didn’t have a color camera, but I did have my iPhone 14Pro. Took a few photos, both close up without the giant container and some with the rust-red/orange container. The ones with the container net were much better,

Walked around the town of Westfield on a nice cloudy day in mid-January hunting for photos of architectural items. It was a Saturday, so things were not super crazy and busy. Walked down Prospect St and this was painted on the side of a building off Prospect Street in an alley. There are two windows separated by about 10 ft, with a big purple wall all over the whole building. I took these two with my iPhone 14Pro, but I need to come back and do a swing-lens film shot on a similarly grey day. The colors are wonderful. Pink

Went to the old Bethlehem steel plant in PA with the Essex County club on Jan 2, 2023 and was introduced to this very cool place. It’s an old steel mill, the one that essentially supplied the steel that built much of the WW2 ships and cities throughout the Northeastern US. Once had tens of thousands of people working on a huge campus. It’s decline started in the early 70’s when the lost the bid for the steel for the World Trade Center. Much of the site has been torn down, but what remains are four gigantic blast furnaces. The