Road Trips

Road Trips

Back in NY

I’m back in New York and shooting around my building. A never ending source. A small town in a big city. I’m shooting everyone and everything knowing full well my apartment building does not have a long future. All must pass. Today in New York was the most spectacular weather in a city of extreme …

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Dasha on the porch

Dasha who has been my subject the last few days here on Instagram and I first met 5 years ago in the outer banks . From Ukraine, she was on a work&travel program and sold tickets at a Nags Head miniature golf course for her summer job . Galaxy Golf. So American classic tacky it …

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Portrait

Nags Head.  ‪#‎obx‬ ‪#‎beachgames‬

I can’t leave

I’ve been shooting at home all week. Fact is I can’t leave. No choice but to shoot here if I have time to shoot at all. I’ve hard drives to organize, travel plans to make, tax prep to do (yuk), house repairs to make and endless errands to run. Normal at home stuff to do. …

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Dasha

When I’m at home, as now, trying to organize hard drives and planning future shoots, I continue to at least photograph something every day. In this case Dasha, who is spending most of her day trying to work on my drives, doubles as a model for my ongoing BeachGames book. Working on an esoteric and …

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Driving down the beach

Sometimes I get the urge to drive down the beach. I can legally do so in designated areas in the outer banks. Mostly I think beaches are for walking but I can’t deny the pleasure of cruising 4wd the waterline at sunset and watching the Pelicans air surfing. #obx

Home sweet home

I continue my fiction essay BeachGames. To be a book. Maybe. Someday. I almost published it last spring but something was wrong. I’m pleased I waited. So now I’ve ventured out of Rio for surely beach games are everywhere. So I will return to Cuba soon to continue. Then Thailand . Then Cartagena . Always …

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Hiking in Jockeys Ridge

Hiking around Jockeys Ridge on the outer banks is mostly a barefoot pleasure. Except in late summer out come the stickers I’ve never known the official name my whole ouch pull out the sticker burr life. Still sunset from this old shifting dune is the place to be. Even on the coldest day of winter …

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October

October is feeling like a bit of summer here in the outer banks. Warm sunny days and cool starry nights. Fire going and the doors wide open. The best. Everybody is on the beach on bikes on the jogging path and on the big dune. New York last weekend with my book publishing class was …

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