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Photographing the Same Thing Over and Over

I was born in Houston, Texas.

That’s a long way from where I now live in New Jersey.

Never in a million years growing up did I think I’d live on the east coast.

But that’s where I am.

Most kids from Texas don’t aspire to move to the east coast…. because if you’ve never been up here, it’s hard to imagine how so many people can find happiness so close together.

Growing up in a semi-small, college town in north Texas and spending my summers fishing, swimming and water skiing at a lake house in south eastern Oklahoma, I never had thought about crime or break-ins.

Because of the 2008 recession, I ended up taking a job on the east coast in that year and moved to Jersey City, NJ in 2009.

The first couple of years here in New Jersey were hard on me.

Yet, I survived the move, the adjustments to driving style, and learning to “go right to go left” when navigating in traffic.

  Jersey City Living & Photography

My apartment in Jersey City was in an area called “the island” on Waldo Ave.

It was on a ridge just above a very old cemetery – one where they supposedly shot some Sopranos tv show scenes.

My street was a mix of pre-war old school apartment buildings, 2 family homes, and 1970’s aesthetically unpleasing homes.

At the end of the block, if you strain your eyes to peer around the chain link fence, you can see the Statue of Liberty.

My apartment was not too large, just big enough for two people and a couple of pets.

The bedrooms were on the back side of the house, facing NYC.

Each morning the sun would rise over the NYC skyline and cast shadows from the wrought iron window bars onto the curtains, the wall and the bed.

I became completely fascinated with the wrought iron bars.

Unlike any windows I grew up with  – which were barless – I began a photographic relationship with the bars.

Snow would come down and pile up on the top curve… rain would come and drip down off the bottom edge.

The sun would beat hard through the window and create shapes on my floor to ceiling curtains.

At night, I could focus on the bars and get the blurred city lights in the background.

I photographed those buggers incessantly – at all times of day – and from every vantage point I could reach from inside.

Moving out of that apartment was kind of bittersweet.

The view of NYC was amazing.

I watched the new World Trade replacement building go up for 5 years and moved away before it was finished.

I woke up one morning to see the top portion of a cruise ship glide by at eye level… because the Hudson River was just a mile away and in direct view.

And, little did I know, but down there, among the apartments and high-rises, my wife was making her way in the same city we both love.

    Wrought Iron Window Bars: Waldo Ave Jersey City

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If you have something in your life you find fascinating, like my wrought iron window bars, make it the subject of your photography for a while.

Create a series of images and explore its textures and nuances.

Take photos of it at all times of day, in every light, and explore it with your camera.

Check out my article on photographing a series to learn more about how a series of one thing will help you grow as a photographer.

By exploring the wrought iron window bars with my Canon, I believe it was one of the catalysts for my macro expressionism style.

Wrought Iron Window Bars: Waldo Ave Jersey City Photographing the Same Thing Over and Over I was born in Houston, Texas. That's a long way from where I now live in New Jersey.

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Best Lens for Landscape Photography for Canon Cameras

Best Lens for Landscape Photography for Canon Cameras

Best Lens for Landscape Photography for Canon Cameras “Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.” – Wikipedia   Notable landscape photographers include Ansel Adams, Mark Gray, Galen Rowell,…

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Photography Projects: Focusing on One Concept at a Time

Photography Projects: Focusing on One Concept at a Time

Photography Series – Blurred Stripes: After The Rain – Series of Leaves, Ferns and Water Drops Photography Projects: Focusing on One Concept at a Time Most new photographers set out to take photos of whatever crosses their path at that moment in time. We’ve all been there, trying to figure out what to shoot… what would look cool. What would look like my favorite Instagram photographers work… And,…

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Class of 2017 T-shirts for grads in all kinds of colors. https://www.redbubble.com/people/coffeewasted/works/24295136-class-of-2017?asc=t&p=t-shirt 

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We Out This B17CH Seniors 2017  - Class T-shirt. Check out more colors here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/coffeewasted/works/24299943-we-out-this-b17ch-seniors-2017?asc=t&p=t-shirt

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How do you get a corroded engine control module to look better than new? http://toolkrib.com/blog/sandblast-cabinets-and-media-blasting-equipment/

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http://www.thebestof.us/best-portable-laptop-desk/ Work from bed, work from home with a cushy lapdesk to make your job more comfy

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Wholesale Fish Market, Baltimore, Md

(Port Discovery is now in the old fish market building)

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CHICK WORKHOLDING SOLUTIONS

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from Took-Krib Work with Your CNC Machines to be more efficient.

Innovative Chick Workholding Solutions help increase machine shop productivity by reducing down time in CNC machining centers. Established in 1989 in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, Chick Workholding Solutions produces Chick Vises & Vise Jaws, Chick Foundation Plates and Chick Machine Tool Accessories designed to work with your specific CNC machines. Chick Workholding Solutions help CNC machine shops and manufacturers of all types address various machining challenges.

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An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at some of the machines at W Mckee Manufacturing Ltd. in Red Deer, Alberta. My friend’s family owns the business and I visited them recently. Lots of fun, lots of BIG equipment! Incidentally, the last two photos are of a rolling machine that was stationed in Hawaii during WWII, used by the US Navy in the repairing of damaged ships.

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JPW INDUSTRIES INC. Toolkrib NJ For Wilton Vises and JET Metalworking Machinery and Equipment, Rely on Tool-Krib Supply

Wilton Best known for rugged and dependable vises and clamps, Wilton Tools started in Chicago in 1941 and now has its headquarters in LaVergne. Wilton is the North American leader for industrial bench vises. JPW INDUSTRIES INC. Toolkrib NJ For Wilton Vises and JET Metalworking Machinery and Equipment, Rely on Tool-Krib Supply 

JET JET Equipment began in 1958 as a small dealer of manual chain hoists and trolleys, sold from a single hardware store in Tacoma, Washington. Today, JET offers a full line of metalworking machinery (powerful saws, high-peformance lathes, precise mills, drill presses, metal forming machinery, and finishing and grinding equipment)

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Transforming Bar Desk by JON-A-TRON http://www.instructables.com/id/Transforming-Bar-Desk/

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Okay, so this project “Fuzzy Logic” has me much too excited for my own good. Textile geekiness AND hacking production techniques in sweet union, how could I not be!?

Adam Blencowe basically just came up with this technique of digitising felting for his graduate project at Royal College of Art: “To digitise this process, the designer hacked a standard jigsaw by building a needle holder that attaches to the blade, and adding a 3D-printed presser foot. He then mounted the modified tool onto a computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine.” Quote from this Dezeen article

In my opinion it’s perfect, because it hits that sweet spot between one-off craft production and mass scale production and fits in right where a lot of smaller design companies are. Can’t wait to see what happens with this in the future.