This is rust on the side of the battery.

While we were in Cape May we went to see the WWII battery on the beach. It used to be out in the ocean, but now it's on the shore. I'm not sure why. Anyway, this is a close up of some moss on the side of the battery.

This is from my trip to Cape May last week.

My sister let me try out her lens baby which is a lens attachment that basically gives you more control over the focus. It was a little tricky to get used to and I think I need some more practice. These are two of the more interesting photos I took with it. Both of these are from my backyard.

Scratched

This is a link to a scratch film I made last year. Scratch films are made by scratching away the emulsion on undeveloped film. This film is about one minute long which means I drew over 1400 pictures each in a space that is about a 1/2 inch wide. I used a mechanical pencil with a metal tip to scratch the pictures and a lightbox to see the picture clearly. It took me about 3 months to complete the drawings and then I had to get the film transferred over to a DV tape. Scratched won an honorable mention at the Rutgers film festival, but I haven't submitted it anywhere else yet.

This photo is from a year or two ago. My camera lens fogged up when I went outside which made for some interesting pictures of this rose.

This is another close up of peeling paint on a train from the place we stopped on the way down to Cape May

On the way down to Cape May we stopped at a trainyard where there were working trains as well as some ones by the side of the track that weren't in use anymore. This is a close up of peeling paint and rust on one of the trains.

I am posting three images today to make up for the time I was in Cape May. These are all along the same theme of ocean waves in Cape May.


The ocean was very foamy on this day. I'm not sure why I like this picture, but I do.


I liked how the sun was reflecting off the water in this one.


I like this one because the wave crashes in from one side and the rocks balance it out on the other side. I also like the really smooth line of the ocean in contrast to the wave crashing.

This is a garden path through a circle in a fence. I was trying to take pictures of the alphabet as my sister suggested, and this was my favorite picture for O.

This is a holly tree in Haddonfield. It was very dark under the tree so I tried using a slow exposure and spinning the camera. The result: Spinny Tree.

Mom got yellow roses so I took some photos holding the vase in my lap and a peice of pink paper in the background. Low tech, but it works.