Love Canal was a toxic waste dump cum community development gone devastatingly awry. It was home to the first mass-media publicized movement about chemical pollution and its incredible effects on nature and the human body. It’s significance years later lives on considering its not too far off from what still goes on all around us [...]
There are several things great about Mr. August: John Sousoulas and the 24-hour diner he’s been running for more than 25 years. The traditional cum contemporary eatery had recently undergone a renovation that decorates the place with beautiful lookouts of Santorini, and of course, sizable remakes of the Parthenon itself. We commend you, Mr. Sousoulas [...]
I somehow feel compelled to present an explanation for my summer-born hiatus in which my photoblog has been subjected. One craft project included a desperate need for new chairs in our quaint dining room. Indeed, the ironclad and rattan chairs had massive holes in the buttocks region and many of our dinner guests were potentially [...]
Well, if I must say! This could possibly be the greatest month of them all. Mr. June is the one, the only, Chuck Conti of Weichert Realtors – Shoreline Properties. A good friend of the family and one with a charm all his own depicts here the selling of a home to the stereotypical first-time [...]
Meet Frank Morale. Frank and his son, Anthony, run Anthony John’s Pizzeria in North Branford, Connecticut. Frank started making pizza when at the ripe age of 13 in Brooklyn, New York and has made every single pizza pie at Anthony John’s since opening in May of 2010. No joke; this is some of the best [...]
Better late than never, eh? Mr. May is none other than Mike Savinelli and Jason Truscio of the quintessential shoreline eatery, Nellie Greens. Situated cozily behind a factory cum boat marina, this “casually elegant” establishment comes with all the perks including wonderful service and waterfront views of the Branford River. Named after rum runner Nellie [...]
Bang bang, Mr. April! I present to you the one and only Chris Dogolo of Chris’ Indoor Shooting Range in Guilford, Connecticut. This pistol-whippin’, bullseye-shootin’, no messin’ around marksman is the owner of the highly acclaimed indoor range along the shoreline. Length of pistols in hand were not editing during the making of this calendar [...]
During our two-or-so hour Salton Sea sojourn, there was much to be seen as light fell swiftly. Leaving Bombay Beach, our group trailed up the gravely roads on foot paralleling the Chocolate Mountains, which revealed their every crevice with the setting sun. This is a fleeting memento of the transient memories and of more to [...]
To all the countless times you’ve let me take your picture and all the terrifically winsome, goofy faces produced from them; To your instinctive intellect, old-fashioned vestments, grammatical correctness, rugged manliness, talent for being spontaneous, and soulful sentiments; For tirelessly traveling the world, shooting from the hip, and effortlessly putting a smile on my face [...]
In honor of yesterday’s brief and unbecoming snowfall (which, granted, has already melted away), it recalled a scene in Branford’s Youngs Pond Park and Mother Nature’s winter trickery: the day it fell cold once again after several successive, and convincing, spring-like days. Oh, how finicky she can be.
Chris and I passed through Bombay Beach on our way to visit family camping on the east side of the Salton Sea. We only had about twenty minutes to spend due to a considerate gesture gone awry. The quiet, downtrodden neighborhood is the desolate ruin of a glamorous vestige. Vintage cars sit unscathed by the [...]
Funny that the irony in the name Garbage Beach, one of a handful of pristine seashores at Sunset Cliffs, is that there is none. Once upon a time the upper canyons housed a landfill, much of which I’m told washed away at sea. Now if you take the walk down the precipitous cliffs by means [...]
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