Elementary Penguin

Two red tulips

Tulips
May 2023
📷 Nikon D90

it's either "the most incredible machine known to man cranks out 1,000,000 widgets every second" or "this man hand-carves these heirloom skateboards, averaging one every calendar year"

I think ultimately my goal when I really get going is less to capture the particular lighthouse here but rather the idea of the lighthouse, or how I felt looking at it at the time. Of course that was ages ago so? Guess I should get 20 copies of it printed out and put them all in a huge frame

A fun thing to do with modern photography is lose your mind deciding how to adjust the color of your raw image

A house attached to a lighthouse missing its lamp on a grassy beach

Decomissioned Lighthouse
Cape Cod
July 2015
📷 Nikon D90

.
.
.
n-1) this one is even better but I can’t really afford it.
n) oh well, I guess I can’t afford a camera after all.

Deep in the “should I get a new camera?” cycle:
1) my camera is almost 20 years old, I should buy a new one
2) this one is way better and I can definitely afford it!
3) this one is even better and only a little more expensive!
4) this one is even better and only a little more expensive!
.
.
.

A macro photo of a green inchworm

Inchworm
May 2014
📷 Nikon D90

Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, the camera matrix-style swings 180 degrees making clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

I didn’t crop it back in 2003 because it was one megapixel big but now I can upscale it so that cropping it doesn’t look terrible

Fiddling with this one in Lightroom to make it less natural, but “better”

Vermont
July 2017
📷 iPhone 6s

Graffiti on the concrete support of an overpass that reads “live to the point of tears”

LIVE
TO THE POINT
OF TEARS

March 2003
📷 Sony Cybershot

A toddler and a dog resting on a couch. The dog is sleeping and the child is using the dog as a pillow.

Fry and Laverne
April 2018
📷 iPhone 6s

A black and white picture of a young child in the back seat of a car.

December 2018
📷 iPhone (?)

1970s paperback edition of ayn rand’s the fountainhead with a photograph of an attractive woman leaning back seductively on a drafting board

can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover

lol GdT you fuckin sicko, if you didn’t do this I’d be pissed

A iMessages chat bubble that says “I’m going to look at images until I feel better.”

Sage advice from my eldest

The previous picture but with horizontal and vertical lines straightened out

Seeing this now (i schedule these posts with Buffer) and annoyed I didn’t bother to fix the geometry

Three child-sized mannequins and a real child sitting in a row on the side of a porch

Woodstock, VT
June 2016
📷 iPhone 6s

The stigma of a sunflower

No idea why I let this one languish on my camera for three years, it turned out pretty well
📷 Nikon D90

A sleeping dog

Sleepy Jenny

Need to invest in an actual macro lens. F-mount macro lenses are not too bad now that mirrorless cameras are the state of the art.

A dragonfly

Dragonfly
August 2023
📷 Nikon D90

A white moth on a green wall

Moth
August 2023
📷 Nikon D90

Several people looking over a stone fence into an area below

New England Aquarium
August 2023
📷 Panasonic DMC-FZ300

Also I hate to say it but this is good advice

A beach. People are sitting under umbrellas. A boardwalk and buildings are in the background

Rehoboth Beach
August 2004
📷 Canon PowerShot

A black and white picture of a man walking on a beach at the edge of the water, holding a boogie board

Ocean City MD
August 2004
📷 Canon PowerShot

A child holding a blue umbrella

September 2005
📷 Canon PowerShot S2 IS (?)