mad seagull

I don't live in Monmouth County anymore, but my parents do, and I visit them, and sometimes there are nifty things around here to photograph. So I'm going to add a couple unofficial not-updates (since OTDP is very clearly "no longer updating"). :)

After my last post (August 17, 2008), I moved to Chicago for two years, and then back to north Jersey. I'm still there, and I've been running New Providence Daily Photo for a year and a half (welllll... a little over a year). It's sort of the bastard stepsister of Monmouth County Daily Photo.

There's nothing like NOT living on the shore to make you appreciate it!

Is OTDP still on your RSS feed? Do you still even have an RSS feed? If so, how are you doing?

(FYI, I will probably not continue updates for this clone of the blog; for Jersey shore photo updates, check Monmouth County Daily Photo [on Wordpress] or New Jersey in Photos [on Tumblr].)

sunset 10

I think it's been pretty well established that I have a huge weakness for sunsets.

This particular one was seen over Fletcher Lake, about 16 feet from the boardwalk between Ocean Grove and Bradley Beach.

gazebo 2

Okay. I KNOW. From a photographer's standpoint, this photo sucks--the right side is overexposed, there's a permanent smudge/scratch on the lens of this camera which creates a perpetual translucent blob in the middle of certain photos, etc. etc. etc. But at least the composition has a teeny bit of merit, right? Maybe? No?

Fine, have it your way. But this is what the gazebos in Bradley Beach look like.

dinosaur!

...just so you can see how Bradley Beach's hobby-horses compare to Ocean Township's.

I like dinosaurs! I used to, anyway. I collected all kinds of plastic figurines and had all kinds of books and I could tell you anything you wanted to know--except HOW THEY ALL DIED.

(That was back in the day when the meteor theory held as much water as the overpopulation theory and the Dinosaur Version of the Black Plague theory.)