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
sky: afire
Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way: I went to Maine. There was a spectacular sunset one night.
There was other stuff too, so stay tuned. But also know that that nothing else I post is going to be quite this dramatic.
Camp Ellis Beach, Maine
photographed 9.16.2025
the case of the nightmare doll
The evidence keeps accumulating. And as it does, I become more and more convinced that “creepy dolls” is a redundant term.
(Also – and my shooting partner for the day will verify this – all the dolls in this window display were zip-tied in place. ZIP-TIED. What the hell is going on?)
Chickasha, Oklahoma
photographed 9.11.2025
One Day | One Image 