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Cape May, NJ

#photography
A Victorian mansion at night. A porch light glows bright yellow while the rest of the house is in dark orange shadow.
October 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Age verification? This was my first camera
A blue plastic Fisher Price camera "Made by Kodak". In front of the camera is a cartridge of 110 film.
September 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Boonton, USA

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An early 90s Winnebago Warrior recreational vehicle in a state of decay sits in front of three tall, skinny buildings just after sunset.
September 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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I like to restore vintage railroad signal relays and would absolutely dedicate an entire cabinet to them if I had the room. For now I just keep 2-3 of the nicest ones I've come across.
An old railroad signal relay. It has a plastic base with metal terminals and black coils sticking out of the top. An old railroad signal relay. The base is round and encased in glass. A very old inspection tag can be seen. Terminals and black coils stick out of the top. An old railroad signal relay. It is cubic in shape. Each side has a glass window. An array of terminals stick out of the top. An old railroad signal relay. The base is a large glass cylinder. Terminals stick out of the top.
August 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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An old iron mining railroad, now used only for delivering plastic pellets to a hose factory.

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A scene at late dusk. Railroad tracks in the foreground, some sort of tank with large pipes coming out of it in the middle, and an old white house in the background. Some trees frame the scene, while a lone street light on a utility pole casts a warm orange glow.
August 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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2.4 miles around a local lake tonight
A diving board on a lake at dusk. There is what passes for a mountain around here in the background and lights from houses on the waterfront. The diving board is lit up by a passing car, and the entire frame is vaguely obscured by the chain link fence I shot through.
August 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Singer Building, Elizabeth, NJ. Quick side trip while waiting for Ikea to open this weekend.

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A straight-on view of a five-story brick warehouse with arched windows. On the ground floor is a place called George's Lunch, a tunnel through the building, and a guard shack with a building directory mounted above it.
August 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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“Stop scrolling and tell them about me”

This is Mim! We got her at a shelter three weeks ago.

#cats #catsofbluesky #catsky
A small grey cat is stretching her arm over my laptop keyboard.
August 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Peak pandemic Jersey City on Arista EDU 400 4x5, one of the worst films I've ever used. It has its charms, though.

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A man rides a motorcycle past a large, old warehouse building. The building says LACKAWANNA in metal letters suspended from the brick walls. Two teens shooting hoops on a cul-de-sac lined with low-rise two family homes. A residential tower is under construction in the background in front of other recently completed towers.
August 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Cape May <----> Lewes

Hasselblad SWC/M + Portra 160

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The deck of a ferry. Chairs are on the right, with the ocean to the left. In the background is a blurry figure... could it be a ghost? No, it's just some person. The deck of a ferry looking out towards the ocean. Some chains form a barrier to keep people from falling off. A spotlight, idle, points towards the sky.
July 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Milo appreciation post
#Cats #CatsofBluesky #Catsky
A brown and white tabby tux relaxes on a grey blanket. He's looking away from the camera with a happy and maybe slightly smug expression on his face
July 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A summer morning walking around Phillipsburg, NJ and Easton, PA.

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A block or rowhouses in early morning light. They are all small and neat with lots of projecting engles from crazy rooflines and dormers. A brick house with multiple bay windows, a set of double doors, a mansard roof, and a lot of ornamentation in the form of lintels and eave brackets. A very tall and skinny building. A continuous bay window extends five floors above the ground floor, occupied by a business named New York Tailors. The roof is crowned by a floral pediment bracketed by two finials. A three story green house with a mansard roof. The mansard is covered with slate shingles. It feels like we're looking at the side of the house but the front door is on this side, next to a two story bay window.
July 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I only did a few years in one, but suburban office landscapes continue to haunt me.

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A walkway into a concrete building with some greenery in front. It is night and the only light is from a doorway in the building Power lines over a parking light after sunset. The sky is a mix of colors ranging from blue to pink to orange. An office building at night. A side light from out of the frame rakes across the foreground. Dim lights are lit inside the building
June 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The first backyard slime mold of the season and the appropriately named Dead Man's Fingers fungus.

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A bumpy yet slimy mass of biological material clings to the bark of a tree. Dark brown/blue/green stubs of fungus stick up out of the ground. The tips are white and resemble fingernails on a dead person's hand, supposedly.
May 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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[Knowing zero Spanish]

Oh HELL yeah bro
A window of a juice bar with the words “Bar de Jugos Naturales”
April 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Elevated Acre, NYC

#ricohgr #photography
A small field of green grass. An area of pavement with two tables and chairs is off to the right side of the foreground, with roses and other greenery to the left. In the background are scattered skyscrapers. There are no humans visible anywhere.
March 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reposted by Doug
shaynamarchese.com
I finished up hourly comics (two days later, of course of course), and posted them all on my website: www.shaynamarchese.com/hourly-comic... (and the rest here ↓) #HourlyComics #HourlyComicsDay2025
hourly comics, 2025
Hourly comics, February 1, 2025
www.shaynamarchese.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Not Knowing What Else To Do, Man Takes Picture of Tire Flag

#photography #nj
A stack of tires in front of a Shell gas station on a cloudy day. There are five columns of five tires each. They are painted in a way that makes them look like a crappier version of the USA flag
February 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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This will probably be 80% cats but, well. #HourlyComicsDay #HourlyComicsDay2025
A black-and-white ink drawing of a black-and-white cat on a black background; the cat is saying "mrr?" and looks very awake. The time is 4:00am. A black-and-white ink drawing of two cats eating. The text around the tabby cat reads "Earl, 15. - Gets dry kitten food as it's the only thing he'll currently eat" The text around the black-and-white cat reads "Astrid, 2. - Wet food in the bathroom so she doesn't eat Earl's." The time is 5:00am. A black-and-white ink drawing of a tabby cat sitting on a mat that's on top of a blanket. The text reads "Earl's settled onto his heating pad in front of the radiator after a post-breakfast wander." The time is 6:00am. A black-and-white ink drawing that's divided into two parts. On top is a French coffee press next to two coffee mugs and an English muffin on a plate. The text reads "I make coffee and and English muffin." The bottom drawing is of a woman wearing glasses sitting on a couch reading a book. The text reads "Then a brief, horrifying look at the internet, followed by some time with a book." The time is 7:00am. The book is The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer, but it's pretty illegible in the drawing.
February 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Wildwood Boulevard at dawn

Chamonix 45n-2 4x5 on Ektar
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A small house on a pier next to a narrow inlet. A drawbridge stands in the background. It is dawn and the light is soft and warm.
January 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Old house on the mountain, Dover NJ.

Hasselblad SWC/M on Ektar

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A winter scene of a large white house with a snowy yard. A medium-sized tree with a few red leaves still holding on partially obscures the house. Under the tree sits a rather moldy Cadillac sedan. The light is diffuse, the atmosphere foggy.
January 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A little comic about desire paths.
Ok so… There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…
January 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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St. Charles Municipal Building, Illinois

4x5 x-ray film (fuji half blue)
Chamonix 45n-2
75mm

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A black and white photo of the St. Charles Municipal Building. The late afternoon sun is illuminating the building with thick, dark clouds in the background. The St. Charles River churns in the foreground.
January 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A side street in Cape May. I love a good utility mashup, and felt a deep need to capture that door for some reason.

fuji ga645w
portra 400
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A street scene at dawn. In the foreground is an obscured sidewalk and an asphalt street. A utility pole with three transformers, a sodium street light, and assorted power and telecommunication wires stands next to a parking meter. In the background is a low building with a picket fence. Everything on the building is painted the same color. An old sagging door raises questions.
January 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Trackside views at work. Lomo Instant Wide Glass
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Three old buildings huddled together under a grey sky. Warm light illuminates the foreground
December 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM