Random Photographs | August - December 2022
Random photographs made in the last half of 2022 that didn’t have a place in a larger story or post.
Interstate 71. Wilmington, Ohio.
The Bay Horse Cafe in Cincinnati. My favorite bar in the city, I was in there for a photo shoot. It’s so sad that this place has been closed since May 2022. Here’s hoping it reopens.
Delicious homemade pizza thanks to friends outside of Boston.
Tiki drinks and 35mm cameras in Saugus, MA.
Wonder Brown giving Egypt a treat as we passed Rhinehaus on a walk in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Streetcar.
Fireworks as seen from Cincinnati’s Pendleton neighborhood.
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati.
The closing Sak’s Fifth Avenue in downtown Cincinnati. Part of a redevelopment highlighted in this story.
Barge on the Ohio River as seen from Bellevue, KY.
Great American Ballpark.
Proctor & Gamble gardens in Cincinnati.
Main St., Cincinnati.
Abandoned building at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
Pickup truck + swan.
My friend, Poppy, posing for her graduation photos after receiving her doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.
Chandelier tunnel. Covington, KY.
Egypt turned five (best guess).
This year’s version of Cincinnati’s BLINK festival featured the “Asianati Night Market” which turned Court St. into a gathering of food trucks and booths. Why this pedestrian plaza isn’t used like this every weekend is a mystery as this setup was fantastic.
Artists Kyle Eli Ebersole (right) & Ian Molitors (left) brought back their “CRESCENDO” installation for BLINK in Cincinnati’s Over-The-Rhine neighborhood. The piece allows visitors to play a piano where the lights above illuminate in sync with the notes.
Kyle also created the incredible light show for James Brown mural on Cincinnati’s Liberty Street:
Hung out with Tod Swormstedt (left) and Rolando Pujol (middle) at the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati. Tod is the museum’s founder, while Rolando is an awesome and kind journalist who documents Americana under the name “The Retrologist.” Rolando was kind enough to speak with me for my story on “A Mansard Roof McDonald’s.”
Taco truck in Cincinnati’s Pleasant Ridge neighborhood.
Went to see a live recording of the “How Did This Get Made?” podcast in Indianapolis.
In November, while coming back from Tennessee, I visited this very crowded and not worth the detour circle of hell place:
Federal courthouse, Cincinnati.
Egypt on a walk in downtown Cincinnati.
Thanks to the good folks of Deme Kitchen in downtown Cincinnati for purchasing and displaying a few of my photographs.
7th St. Cincinnati.
Downtown Cincinnati.
Went Christmas shopping at Trader’s World Flea Market, “the Midwest’s largest and most colorful market,” in Lebanon, Ohio:
It’s a place where you can buy Crocs “fashion clog shoes” and pay your respects at the manger scene:
Or visit a booth called Traitor’s World:
I wanted to find an old-school Nascar Winston Cup Series hat, but all we seemed to come across were statues for top dads and “Don’t Tread on Me” lawn gnomes:
There were also many booths offering vast selections of butterfly knives:
With no vintage Nascar hats around and no need for blades or lawn ornaments, we went to the rival flea market across the highway: Treasure Aisles.
Still no hats, but the place did have Hydro Thunder (the greatest arcade game of all time) and a wide selection of crucifixes.
Outside, this was the only hat I could find:
I did score this DMX t-shirt, however:
Photo by Matt Wilkes.
Finished off the year by making holiday photographs for friends, family, and dogs:
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