Sidewalk Expressionist
Tag: New Jersey
In Memoriam
Bird Abattoir, according to some
For the Birds
West End Avenue, Ventnor, New Jersey
An interesting challenge in photographic composition. Which image is stronger? In the top image we have the nice diagonal line of the birds, leading us in, as well as the converging lanes drawing our eye to the nearer and more prominent shopping cart. In the bottom image the bird in front draws the eye more, we still have the converging lanes and a diagonal line of birds, dividing the image almost in half, and I think there’s a stronger sense of the emptiness of the parking lot. Your thoughts?
Vacation Rental
It rained most of the way down to Ventnor and most of the next day, cleared a bit the next day, then started thundering in the evening. Lucky I booked 2 weeks of vacation this time.
Flower Box
Fighting Over Iced Drinks?
Flagging Friendship?
Bay Side of the Road
Stripes
Hole in the Sky
Another Roadside Attraction
Foggy Day
Fog
Still in the archives from 2001-02, here’s another foggy landscape looking South down the beach. there was a lot of color noise in this old 2MP jpeg that I took a stab at cleaning up.
Mossy Pilings, Fog
Beach Landscape
Another 2MP jpeg from the archive, either 2001 or 2002.
Beach Still Life
Life’s a Beach
So frigid weather sends me back to the archive. Here’s a selection of 2MP jpegs shot early in my digital period with the family Kodak at the beach, with a little modern editing in Capture One. Click any image to see them all enlarged.
Turnpike Trees
One more roadside composition, at speed.
Another Roadside Attraction
I love taking pictures along the road at a shutter speed fast enough to stop the motion of the trees in the distance but not the closer grasses in the foreground – it creates a kind of painterly effect.