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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!

... that shooter wasn't a Lefty... .,guy came from a maga family, periodt! . See how crusty, crunchy, and molded that 🍊 be at this Time. #crunch!!!!

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!

Happy Sunday! It rained this morning so I slept a wonderful 10 hours before getting up for coffee and joyfully then napping another three hours. So in lieu of a sunrise picture here is Marshmallow passed out as I catch up on some football. I hope you are having a great day!

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Happy Saturday! It’s the weekend! We had a hazy sunrise this morning but the swash and shimmer put together a very nice show. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Three times more people saw Oasis play last Sunday night at MetLife Stadium than were hired in the United States in the month of August.

I was sorry to learn that Turtles co-founder Mark Volman died today at age 78 after a brief, unexpected illness. I was lucky to see him last June during the Happy Together Tour where his energy and ebullience was so evident, seen in this snapshot.

Happy Friday! We made it through the week! We had a pretty understated sunrise this morning so here is Wednesday’s coffee shop runner-up pick. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

I am deep in a major work assignment and needed a break, so as a timeline cleanse, here is a boat taken from the Bay bridge this morning on its way underneath me during my walk back from the sunrise. The bright, low sun showed off the boat and wake very nicely. Tap for full size.

Happy Thursday! We’re almost through a short week! We had an extremely empty sunrise this morning but sometimes clarity and simplicity are a good thing. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Happy Wednesday! The sunrise itself was kind of quiet but we had amazing clouds that kept changing into wonderful patterns and designs. Here is one of many. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!