Full Take 2014: Every Photograph I Made In A Year
Ronny Salerno Ronny Salerno

Full Take 2014: Every Photograph I Made In A Year

Usually at the end of a year I try (or at least intend) to make a final post on QC/D, something that kind of wraps up the year. Honestly, it's one of the most frustrating things to come up with. In past years there have been mixed results. For 2014, I decided to try something different.

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[Kings Waffle] Chapter 3: The Waffle Kids
Ronny Salerno Ronny Salerno

[Kings Waffle] Chapter 3: The Waffle Kids

Americans have a love affair with diners, both in reality and in the way popular culture romanticizes them. The diner is a feature unique to the United States roadside. While the days of prefabricated stainless steel buildings have come and gone - the characteristics of the concept live on in the late hours of cuisine, counters, coffee and grease.

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[Kings Waffle] Chapter 1: This is The Place
Ronny Salerno Ronny Salerno

[Kings Waffle] Chapter 1: This is The Place

"You guys must come here a lot, no?" said the state trooper sitting at the low counter with us. "If this were a bar, we'd be drunks" I replied. He laughed before facing his palms to the sky and praying before his meal. It was a crude, unflattering answer, but probably the simplest way to describe how often we're here.

At the Waffle House.

"Kings" Waffle House to be specific.

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Film: Seriously, It's Not Hard
Cameron Knight Cameron Knight

Film: Seriously, It's Not Hard

I'm new here at QCD, and you may have noticed my photos have been shot on film. People talk about shooting film like it's coke habit. Expensive, unpredictable and harmful to your libido. I beg to differ.

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[Views of Cincinnati] Forms and Structure
Ronny Salerno Ronny Salerno

[Views of Cincinnati] Forms and Structure

The skyline is the reality, the reminder. The sight of it breaks the illusion of the hilltop neighborhood being its own European village. The neighborhood is part of something greater, an integral part of the city. Just as one photograph can be part of a series created for a greater purpose.

Down a side street - the chaotically crossing power lines of an urban framework [forms] and the structured network of a skyscraper's crown [structure] silhouetted against the sky.

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When Crosley was King
Ronny Salerno Ronny Salerno

When Crosley was King

Before Crosley was the name of a stadium, Powell Crosley Jr.'s empire gave birth to the first commercially affordable radio, the "Nation's Station" 700 WLW, the first car radio and "soap operas.”

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