It's an even more amazing state we live in, when you stop to look. Photographs by New Jersey Monthly Senior Editor Eric Levin.
Entries for June 2008
Long May It Wave
It wasn't waving as I passed by the other day, at the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue, Fairfield Avenue, and Clinton Road in Caldwell. The air was so calm and humid, the flag wasn't even wavering.
But it will, and soon enough to remind us the fourth arrives in four days.
...continue reading.Tags: North Caldwell | Caldwell | West Caldwell | photography
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Hello, Tow Dolly
Standing in front of something with a camera in your hands is no time to rationalize why you are drawn to it.
That can come later, when you decide whether the picture worked--that is, whether it transfers to two dimensions something of what you experienced in three (plus time.)
But that still doesn't explain why you were drawn to it.
...continue reading.Tags: Princeton | Central New Jersey | Long Valley | photography
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Still Life With Snapple
Just off Bergenline Avenue in Union City, the sun startled me, pushing forward this assemblage of discarded objects against a backdrop of unexpected swimming pool colors.
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In the D.D. E.R.
Standing today in a spotless room stocked with vital fluids and equipment for delivering them, I had a flashback.
Just five and a half weeks ago, I spent several hours in a strangely similar room, having essential fluids dripped into my body from plastic packs hung from prongs on metal poles just like you see here.
...continue reading.Tags: Newark | Morristown | UMDNJ | photography
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Car Corral
It may not be the last roundup, but it does feel like the last for the day.
Git along little downtown Montclair dogies.
...continue reading.Tags: Montclair | photography | parking meters
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Loopholes
Red light. Montclair.
Construction curtains looming like a hull with cockeyed portholes.
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They Paved Paradise, But It's Still Paradise
I've always loved the tiny backyards of Shore houses---just big enough for a picnic table with an umbrella, a charcoal grill and a clothesline you have to duck under.
But even more tranquil to me are the paved spaces between the houses..
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Tags: Margate | photography
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