Monthly Archives: September 2025
foot traffic
There are a lot of things that make me laugh. A lot. You’d probably be surprised at the range of things that I find hilarious.
This, for example, is extremely funny to me. (And, yes: I do crack my own self up.)
Old Orchard Beach, Maine
photographed 9.15.2025
every flower is a soul
New England was so pretty – there were trees (some already with leaves changing into their autumn clothes), wild ferns (here in my part of Texas, ferns are a houseplant) growing happily in the woods, and colorful flowers (whose names I had to look up when I got home*).
So all in all, I was glad that my flight home arrived after dark so I was not immediately confronted with a view that included none of what I’d seen in New England.
Newburyport, Massachusetts
photographed 9.18.2025
*I feel like the only person in the world that didn’t know that was a dahlia.
one of each
One person, one chair, one beach bag, one (blurry) seagull.
And a touch of pink in the sky.
Old Orchard Beach, Maine
photographed 9.15.2025
carnival (off season)
It felt like going to the beach in the off season was like walking around the back of a building: nothing much going on, except that everything was going on in a way that made clear nothing there cared if you noticed it or not.
Old Orchard Beach, Maine
photographed 9.15.2025
the photographer’s assistant
Late afternoon sunlight drew quite a few photographers and their clients to the beach. Oh, and their assistants were there, too.
I made this shot without having time to compose it because I really, really wanted the reflector blocking the face of the kid that was being photographed. There is the tiniest chance that I followed them around for a while, hoping to get a better version of this shot, but that never happened…
Old Orchard Beach, Maine
photographed 9.15.2025
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