A talkative youngster keeps her friends rapt after school in Jersey City. Photo by NJM senior editor Eric Levin. ...
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Two 70-pound porkers fed more than 100 people--students and their friends and parents--at the big grass roots event at our son's college graduation a couple weeks back. Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct. Photo by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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I have a series of pictures I call "Souls Have Shapes." The title comes from the first stanza of a poem, "My Sisters," by Stanley Kunitz. Today's Plain Sight is a Souls Have Shapes picture. I'll leave it to you to see why. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin...
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I know this is a Jersey photo blog, but I happened to be in Middletown, Connecticut, at a Mexican restaurant, and my wife's purse was right next to me on the counter by the front window. I looked at it, and I thought, That's a photograph....
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Anyone recruiting for the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team, might want to track this fellow down. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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All of us see things every day that we take for granted will look exactly the same tomorrow. But as I like to say, still life never sleeps. For example, this tableaux at the Morristown Post Office. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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Sometimes just staring at the pastries in the illuminated display case is therapeutic. Photo by NJM senior editor Eric Levin...
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However you want to modify your tea or coffee, the waiters and waitresses at the Tick-Tock Diner in Clifton know where to find your main squeeze. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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Wesleyan is in Connecticut, but that's where NJM senior editor Eric Levin is heading this weekend to watch his son graduate. Today's Plain Sight picture is by said scion. Congratulations, Mike....
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Thick straps immobilize this hard rubber implement for all to see, even children innocently passing by. Scandalous! Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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The estimable executive chef Antonio Mora, who returned to New York, has been replaced by Dominique Filoni, a fine French chef with a Mediterranean palate. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin...
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Yes, and me too, especially when juxtaposed against something interesting, like the Morristown train station. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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I don't know about you, but I feel better knowing the person drawing my blood is wearing a latex-free, powder-free, ambidextrous, Medi-Pride plastic examination glove and has a little fabric sunflower attached to her station. Location: Mountainside Hospital, Montclair....
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One thing I like about blood tests--probably the only thing--is the colorful paraphernalia, especially the specimen vials with their colored caps and mysterious preservative gel at the round end. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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Awaiting the tourniquet and needle at Mountainside Hospital in Bloomfield/Montclair, I did what anyone with a camera would do--look for pictures....
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Catch 'em while you can. The dogwood blossoms will be on the ground before you know it. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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A vacant storefront gets a makeover, the early stages of the process. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin...
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In the lobby of a busy hotel, a shadowy ascent to a landing in the sun. Photograph by NJM senior editor Eric Levin....
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