When was the last time you heard an arcade make no noise? Actually if it doesn't make any noise did you actually hear it? If you want to hear a silent arcade visit Cape May in December.
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Two benches are better than one, baby. Two benches get the job done. Any Springsteen fans out there? This is Jersey after all, do I really need to spoon feed the musical reference?
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Air temperature around 40°. Water temperature around 30°. Sun setting. Yeah, um, can you say nuts? Surfers don't care. Good waves are good waves. This time of year you don't have to fight lifeguard whistle's to surf, only a little hypothermia.
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Sometimes I take a shot I like so much I don't want to share it with anybody. Then I slap myself on the face and say, "Hey doofus, this is a business, if you like it so much why don't you marry it?" And then I post it on this website.
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Sometimes I take a shot I like so much...oops already said that in Fence Shadow 1. Well, um, this is Fence Shadow II, the sequel. Sometimes sequels can be as good as the original, but usually you need Bruce Willis in the cast.
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Do people still say gnarly? How about bitchin'? Rad? Am I showing my age here? Anyway you say it, nice surfing. Sure he totally wiped out about a half a second later, but in this half a second, he was gnarly.
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It's alive! Alive I say! It's the Frankenstein monster! Okay, actually it's a homemade bike. Little bit from this bike a little bit from that bike and you have, well, a bike?
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Let's go surfin' now everybody's learning how, except for me because I don't own a wetsuit. Plus surfing is really a get-up-at-the-crack-of-dawn type of sport. Not great for night owls like myself.
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Take a little bit a sand and a little bit bag and what do you get? A, um, sandbag. Hey, it's late and I've written about 20 of these descriptions at this point. Running outta ammunition.
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Have I mentioned there is nothing like a Harvey Cedars sunset? I may be a little partial to Harvey Cedars since that's where I grew up, but LBI as a whole is a pretty spectacular place.
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Is there a weight limit to the swing set? I am proof positive, that yes there is. This was a before shot. After I gave it a whirl both the swing set and I were in the bay.
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Try and find one empty chair in Bay Village between Memorial Day and Labor Day, let alone two. Come October, there are plenty. Then again it's kinda cold to be sitting outside.
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This photo answers the question, "Do you take requests?". The answer is, Yes. Not all requests will make the site, but I'll at least try and capture what you are asking for, enjoy.
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This is the obligatory "seagull shot", required by New Jersey law. Yup, there's a law that if you photograph on the Jersey shore, you have to have at least one seagull shot. Look it up.
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I remember as a boy growing up on LBI throngs of people running to the ocean, fishing poles in hand. The fish were running. A blitz. Well, this guy is parked at the ocean, and seems to be ready should the fish start biting.
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Not too many of these old-time street signs left on LBI. The family sign business has been taken over by their great grandchildren. Those whipper-snappers with their crazy hairstyles and their rock and roll music.
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Photographed in Beach Haven Terrace in August of 2007
Even when it rains it's hard to sour LBI. Sit on a deck and watch as the clouds roll in. See the rain as it crosses the bay and know exactly when it's going to hit. Who am I kidding? A rainy day stinks.
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Scallops! Order up. If you ever worked in seafood restaurant on the island, you'd be laughing hysterically now. If you've only ever eaten at a seafood restaurant on the island you probably think I'm just weird.
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A bucket full of shovels, several hundred tons of sand. Sounds like the makings of great sandcastle. But first you need to wake up from the beachchair snooze and get to work.
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Tried to get the sunset behind the causeway, but no dice. But if this is how a diceless photo looks, so be it. Next month I'll try shooting the causeway from south of it.
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Sometimes SPF 50 just isn't enough. Need a little shade on top of the sunblock to ensure you will be semi-translucent at all times. I'm sure your dermatologist would approve.
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I saved you all from the shot of the gutting of the fish these puppies caught. How about a little thank you? No? Okay, be that way. Next month it'll be fish-guts-a-plenty.
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No idea what 532 stands for, but here are some guesses: 1) Number of shorts lost riding waves in. 2) Number of alcoholic beverages consumed in a typical summer hour. 3) Number of people who run into the surf to avoid the Beach Badge Checker on a given day.
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Row, row, row your boat gently toward the sunset. Okay, that sounds like way too much work. Think just mooring it in the Surf City shallows sounds a lot better.
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Lifeguards hit the bars after hours, lifeboats, the bay. This is one of Surf City's finest enjoying a beautiful July sunset. Obviously this boat isn't a morning person.
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I'm Buck Melanoma. Moley Russell's wart. Not her wart. Not her wart! I'm... I'm the wart. She's my tumor. My... my growth. My... uh, my pimple. I'm Uncle Wart. Just old Buck "Wart" Russell. That's what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They'll call me that. "Melanoma Head's coming." I'm s... uncle! Maisy Russell's uncle! Can anybody say a little SPF 50 please?
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Remember the days when all you wanted to do was play in the surf? Yeah, me too. It was this morning, actually every morning. You hit 40 and all you wanna do is retire.
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Why anyone would leave a great hat like this on the dune fence is beyond me. But that's what LBI does, fosters a feeling of safety. And no, I didn't take it. Didn't fit. ;-)
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Not sure who Kenny is, but if he pedaled all the way from Key West like the license plate says, he's gotta be tired. Imagine he's sipping a piņa colada somewhere with ice on his knees.
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Where's the lifeguard? There's a big ocean out there. Who's minding the store? People need you, and not in that Bay-Watch-slow-motion-running-with-parts-a-jigglin' way either.
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What a great place to learn the history of LBI. Although I usually get my Long Beach Island history by listening to stories from my 95 year old grandmother who's been coming down the island since the dawn of time.
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Tried to get a shot of this little girl sitting on the bench, but as soon as I was ready to snap the shot, her little brother (off frame) called to her. She was off like a shot.
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A plethora, cornucopia, menagerie, bounty, or just a plain old bunch of shells down in Holgate. Not sure if they were left here by gulls or if the wildlife preserve isn't doing a very good job of preserving.
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Glad a few of these old beauties survived the storms over the last 100 years. Hard to find details like these in the modern, cookie cutter world we live in.
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For a moment I thought about jumping on this and riding off into the sunset. Then I thought, probably ruin my camera, oh, and I have absolutely no idea how to windsurf.
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The sun is going down, the wind has done it's job and you are just plain tired. Then you hear (now you'll have to listen really closely) the sound of a blender making a frozen concoction. The choice is obvious.
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Okay, so I have absolutely no idea what the hell this stuff is. I assume it's used for catching fish in some way since it was shot near the docks in Viking Village. Then again, maybe it's a flux capacitor.
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Hard to get outta port without these puppies. You also need one of those brass thingies. And, yes, brass thingies is a proper nautical term. If you ever captain a sea going vessel, you'll understand.
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I always wanted to use some artsy-fartsy term to describe one of my shots. Well, this is the one. "Forgotten Labor", yeah I like the sound of that. Makes me seem like an artist who rejects monetary gain for the sake of art. Yup, that's me. (Prices below).
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Sometimes you're so busy looking at a beautiful sunset, you forget to see how that light effects the things it shines on. Thought the colors on this rocks along the fishing pier in Barnegat were really stunning.
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What can you say about rocks? They're fortified with vitamins and minerals? Or something like that. These have a thin seaweed candy coating. Delicious.
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Like I said in my blog, the lighting was awful on this outing to LBI. This is the only photo that had any color whatsoever in it. Of course the next day was sunny, but I wasn't on the island then.
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Hard to believe this photo is real. Looks like something that should be flanking a model train track. If you stare at it long enough you might see a muppet pop up. Or not.
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Ever see that movie where the one guy tells the other guy to meet him at the gazebo in the park? Then the guy finds out it's been a setup and ends up being fish food? No? Me neither.
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Photographed in Beach Haven Crest in February of 2007
All you need is a small outboard, a loaded tacklebox, a couple of sandwiches and you're ready to fish. In about 3 or 4 months. Be patient, warm weather is coming.
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Photographed in Beach Haven Terrace in February of 2007
Three is the magic number, unless it's February on LBI. Then three is only magical if it refers to the number of bar stools for you and your two best friends.
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Boy was it cold when I shot this. Amazing the camera stood still in my shaking hands. This is a shot of beach entrance to the beach on 76th Street in Harvey Cedars. The wind did a number on the path.
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This is the lighthouse from Andy's. If I could walk on water, I might have ventured out into the inlet for a better angle. It's was cold, but not cold enough to freeze the inlet.
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Next year, gloves. Standing on that fishing pier trying to get a shot with the wind howling and the temperature around 20 was one of the dumber things I've done.
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