On vacation and when you have a few minutes very early at the beach (on Cape Cod) before the hordes of people get there, you can scurry around on a Sunday morning and get nice photos. The first one has been picked to be in an online Photo Magazine and has hung in a couple of photography shows already
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A representative photo of the times. A pay phone that says it works, but obviously does not. I remember these ubiquitous phone boots all over, it was the only way to call your office or spouse when you were on the road. Calling cards, collect calls, all a thing of the past.
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So I don’t have much time these days to take photos, so I just zip around between random errands to local areas before I have to either get home to fix dinner or get to a work call. These photos are from both decayed facilities and what was slated for demolition and redevelopment, the old Sevelle’s Auto Body in Westfield, NJ. As usual, all with the Olympus EM1.2 and the 12-40/2.8
Driving by the Cranford Canoe club one afternoon in late November and the shapes of the canoes were calling to me while the leaves were still somewhat alive and fresh fallen. I have had very good results at this local club when they store the canoes for the winter season. This time, it had rained quite a bit and there was an upturned boat with leaves that was pretty neat with the super clear water and leaves that had fallen to the bottom of the water waiting to decompose. I’ll have to come back when there is some snow. All
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So you have 5 minutes between running to get presents for the dog and cat and hurrying home to make baked goods for the holidays. AND you forgot your camera. But it snowed 2” and was pretty. But now it really mostly melted so there’s only a tiny bit left. So I pulled out my trusty iPhone and found a few photos. The first one from a local industrial building. The address is 544, LOL. I thought the echos of the numbers between the door front and the mailbox was pretty neat, as was the orange color. Maybe not a
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One more image from my work on the road paving equipment a few weeks ago. This a wonderful red chain with a black, shadowed background. Nothing earth shattering. I kind of wished I had worked this subject a bit more, as there may have been a few more compositions……but alas, it’s long gone, off to another street Olympus EM-1 12-40/2.8
This concrete hut sits on Diamond Hill Road in Scotch Plains NJ right beside a little creek. If you pull over on the busy road, the plaque says something about this being a creek water level monitoring station. It’s pretty beat up these days with multiple layers of paint, graffiti, etc and seemed like a good subject if I was willing to risk a little to dash across the busy 2-lane road. The green is a nice color and there is nice pink graffiti in the background on the 2nd photo. I should go back and like this, make sure
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More portraits of the Asphalt paving machines outside my house a few weeks ago. The warning symbol was on the huge machine that mills the street, grinding off the top layer of asphalt before it gets repaved. The third photo I thought very cool, which is the hub of one of those big rolling machines that flattens the asphalt.
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They were paving my street a few weeks ago and on Saturday/Sunday the paving equipment was sitting around, waiting for the Monday crew to use it to actually pave the street. I went out there and there were lots of red, yellow, orange, and asphalt. While not a typical subject, I love the bright colors, hard lines, and interesting contrasts. It also often is great in direct sunlight, unlike many other more typical subjects. These all with my trusty Olympus E-M1 Mk 2 and 12-40/2.8
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I was in downtown Minneapolis on a little walking trail out to a huge sculpture garden and these were ~4 foot-high vertical path, cylindrical lighting posts. The orange is the reflection of the light bulbs inside the dark anodized exteriors. On the second one, you can see the groove around I really loved the completely abstract nature of an every-day object here. Olympus E-M1.2 12-40/2.8
Random buildings and snippets of color around Covington, GA. This ethos continues to be a theme of mine, just to walk around and hunt for blocks of color, wherever the are. I love what you can find with some effort and it also means that I can find photos that I like (and that’s what is important for me) almost anywhere in the world. All taken with my favorite combo, the Olympus E-M1.2 and the superb 12-40/2.8 pro lens
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