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 […]

This is really an unusual photo and one that not everyone likes. Why? I think because they figure out what it is pretty quickly, and they don’t like it. I found this bounty of red and yellow at the bottom of a local campground/city park trash can. It is of course, a bunch of McDonald’s trash. But at least it didn’t end up on the ground, but where it belonged after use. The round symmetry and the red forms are really great to me. I hope you like it. Olympus EM1.2 12j-40/2.8…….as usual

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.

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

The more and more that I hunt for colorful, rusty, industrial details, the more I find. I find them much more satisfying than the beauty of flowers and they don’t move or blow in the wind, which is a big plus. These taken with a combination of my iPhone and my trusty Olympus E-M1.2 with the 12-40/2.8 First three: In rural FL around Bradenton, I found an unfinished development on a street some 1/4 mile long. The first three photos were details of a piece of water management piping, not installed yet. The rusty bolt in particular was a great

Nothing special, but these lovely abstract images of yellow metal slowing rusting to nothingness. Photos taken in Mach, 2024 in Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Olympus E-M1.2 12-40/2.8

Nothing special, but if you’re out early, various urban furniture really put nice shadows on the ground. They change rapidly, but there are a LOT of them, so diligence is key. These are from Boston

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

Asbury Park NJ boardwalk. I can’t remember exactly what this is, but it was on the side of some sort of structure on the boardwalk. I just liked the contrast and subtle hints of color Olympus E-M1.2 12-40/2.8…….as usual.

Walking around Boston with my normal digital kit, the Olympus E-M1 + 12-40/2.8 and the delightful Laowa 7.5mm manual focus lens. This taken with the Laowa, which is a great little ultra-wide rectilinear lens, equal to a 15mm on FF. It’s a little soft at the edges for a couple of stops, but nice by f/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