Happy Monday! It’s a new week! We had no direct sunrise this morning but we had some nice cloud colors and patterns to punctuate the sky. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

For a closing TL cleanse NJ’s Sandy Hook is pretty flat, but if you walk along the beach enough you’ll come across dunes like these today that are 3-4 feet high, and if you are selective in your framing you can make them look almost legitimate. I hope you have had a great day!

Happy Sunday! I had an early breakfast in New York so here is the second place coffee shop vote-getter from yesterday looking to the north. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Happy Saturday! It’s the weekend! We had so many good photos today but this won one by a whisker. Look at the person along the shoreline for scale. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

For a timeline cleanse here is a beautiful sunset sky taken from the dunes on Sandy Hook on the Jersey Shore. I estimated roughly 280° of continuous color which is stupendous. Tap and turn horizontal for full size. I hope you have had a great day!

Happy Friday! We made it through the week! We had an absolutely stunning sunrise this morning with this picture winning by a whisker among three finalists at the coffee shop. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

It may be only slightly less expensive than a mortgage payment, but there’s nothing like an 80% dark chocolate gelato cone on a warm summer-like night in New York.

Happy Thursday! We’re almost through the week! We had rain this morning so I had a rare chance to sleep in that I desperately needed, so here is yesterday‘s second place coffee shop vote-getter. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Happy Wednesday! We are halfway through the week! After very low expectations we ended up with some tremendous views at sunrise today so we can present the 1st Place choice today and have others in reserve for cloudy or rainy days. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

What a great way to teach kids about colors! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

The Universe got back at me for complaining about autumn with a *perfect* beach day today, and look at how crystal clear our water is here on the Jersey Shore. Tap and turn horizontal for full size. I hope you have had a great day!

Happy Tuesday! Happy 5786! For the first sunrise of autumn, the sun as yesterday was very reticent to show its face, appearing here before completely disappearing into upper clouds less than 10 seconds later. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

It’s 2:19 p.m. on the East Coast and Summer is hereby officially over. Lifeguards here on the Jersey Shore take one last look to affirm that no one is left in the water, and everyone has gone home. 😢

Happy Monday! It’s a new week and the close of the best season of the year. The sun was very sheepish about its final sunrise of summer and very slowly and tentatively peeked over some clouds before making its full entrance. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

My sleep schedule is so farkakte. For my fourth nap for today I just slept over three hours straight through evening prime time. It’s a good thing my mostly empty calendar can pretty much always accommodate these timing quirks.

For a Sunday night timeline cleanse, here is a quick video showing the colorful beauty in the skies this morning panning from the north to the south. Tap and turn horizontal for full size. I hope you have had a great day!

Happy Sunday! We had an amazing hit of design and color this morning at sunrise that was totally unexpected, and fully appreciated. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Happy Saturday! It’s the weekend! We had a rather straightforward sunrise this morning but the waves along the shore had a really nice consistent spacing and height. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Happy Friday! We made it through the week! Today was the once-a-year opportunity to get the sun rising right over the path I take to the water at sunrise. (See my next two posts below for other fun technical details.) Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

For a quick timeline cleanse, this fellow was crossing the road on Sandy Hook earlier today and was kind enough to stop long enough for me to get two quick snapshots.

Today marked the opening of our scaled-down coffee shop which has moved across the street so they can repurpose their larger space for corporate events. Here’s a collage of four cell phone snapshots that show the overall feel, which has been maintained from its original site.

Happy Thursday! We’re almost through the week! We had overcast clouds today so here is one of the runner-up photos from Tuesday. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Hakeem Jeffries is not the man to meet this moment. Neither is Chuck Schumer.

Happy Wednesday! We’re halfway through the week! Cloudy and rainy weather was forecast so I planned to share another picture from yesterday – but sure enough we ended up with a pretty nice sunrise after all. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

For a timeline cleanse, take a look at this morning’s amazing red sky which spanned almost 140°!! Tap and turn horizontal for full size. I hope you have had a great day!

Happy Tuesday! The skies were beyond stupendous this morning and we ended up with a seven way tie for first place 😮 before a video I took made me think of a better way to crop this one, which then took it to the top. Tap and turn horizontal for full size. I hope you have a great day!

OT to anything important, I met this very charming Canadian Sphynx cat today who was significantly friendlier to me than either of my own two.

Happy Monday! It’s a new week! I poured myself into bed without an alarm and I’m just waking up at 10:30 after a short 7 AM in-bed Bluesky intermission. Here’s a sailboat from August 31 for today’s sunrise photo. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Happy Sunday! The south took the sunrise prize today as an angled cloud stretched the visual attention way down to the right. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Happy Saturday! It’s the weekend! I’m sorry to give you a picture of the sun halfway through the horizon after doing it just yesterday, but this one worked really well with the accompanying clouds. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

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Okay, last Tribute in Light photo for the year, I promise. Last night I also grabbed this shot which I had done before as a vertical, but this time I went wide and spanned the entire width of Manhattan from the Freedom Tower all the way to the Brooklyn Bridge. Tap for full size.

As promised after the beach photo I went to Liberty State Park to shoot the Tribute in Light, only to be astonished that it closed at its regular 10 PM time with no extended hours for 9/11! So I headed to Paulus Hook and got this close-in view from the west. Tap for full size.

Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

Happy Friday! We made it through a rather intense week. The sun marked the day with a nice and simple entry. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Here’s a photo from the beach tonight of the Tribute in Light. I am far enough away that it looks like a single beam. I’m going to head up to Liberty State Park next and see if I can get a shot a little closer in.

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We’ve got a beautiful beach day here on Sandy Hook (NJ) where we are looking at the city and remembering the victims of 9/11. Someone made this beautiful sand sculpture as a tribute, and I’ll do my first Tribute In Light pictures from here.

The Tribute in Light is a memorial of two powerful beams representing the Twin Towers, honoring 9/11 victims and symbolizing hope and resilience. Visible for 60 miles, it shines every September 11. I’ve shot it from over 30 locations and will be out again tonight.

This is one of the most heartbreaking pictures I’ve ever taken. Postings like this were up everywhere in New York for months after 9/11 and they humanize our individualized and collective loss. Tap to see the entire photo. 😢💔🙏

Happy Thursday! After a chaotic day in America yesterday there is a sense of calm here locally with cloudless skies and zero winds as we reflect on the terrorist attacks 24 years ago. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

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When my surgeon and care team at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social committed to do everything they could for me, I committed to be the best patient I could for them. Following their advice to walk more, I just reached *5,000 miles* of GPS-mapped walks since January 2021, not missing a single day!

Happy Wednesday! We are halfway through the week! We had wind and rain this morning but the water looked nice in the pre-dawn light. (That’s a tanker out on the horizon.) Tap and turn horizontal for full size. I hope you have a great day!

I just watched a neighbor walk out of his place and deposit a large bag in someone else's garbage can. Then it dawned on me. I live on a cul-de-sac now.😳

Happy Tuesday! It was torture trying to get anything good this morning because the skies were very muted, but here’s what I have so at least I have a chance to say Good Morning. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Happy Monday! It’s a new week! We didn’t have any sunrise worth celebrating, so in lieu of that I turned around and grabbed this admittedly somewhat hokey shot of the Corn Moon setting directly between our town’s Twin Lights. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Well you lose some and you win some. I went to shoot the Corn Moon rising over the ocean only to find clouds filling the air just before moonrise. But I turned around to see the sun setting over our town and it was pure magic. Tap for full size. I hope you have had a great day!