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CVG September 26, 2021

Some days you just wanna watch airplanes.

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Portrait of Walter Oka

Photographs made for a 91.7 WVXU/Cincinnati Public Radio story as the 20th anniversary of the September 11 Attacks approached.

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Stricker’s Grove 2021

A tiny amusement park in the cornfields of Southwest Ohio captured on 35mm film.

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The Starglow Drive-In Theatre

Even if you didn’t bask in the glow of the screen on that warm, July 1955 opening night—there’d be other chances. About three decades worth of opportunities to take in a film at Middletown, Ohio’s “all new, spacious” Starglow Drive-In Theatre.

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ColorPlus 1

The perfect film stock for Midwestern summers.

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Cincy on CineStill

Tried out some “motion picture film for still photographers” around the Queen City.

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Home

Moved back to Cincinnati a few months back and finally got my apartment set up the way I wanted it/into a space I enjoying existing in—so I made some photographs.

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Alameda Swap Meet and LA’s Chinatown

A walk around two Los Angeles icons.

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Downtown LA and MacArthur Park

I didn’t ride the Angels Flight funicular railway, but I did take the subway up to McArthur Park.

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California City

Dotted by roads to nowhere, aircraft graveyards, and a dried up waterfall—California City was once envisioned to rival Los Angeles. As schemes continued well into the 21st Century, was it all too good to be true? A podcast inspired me to go have a look.

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Santa Monica and Playa Del Rey

Under the boardwalk, bird feeding, two beaches, an engagement, and a decent calzone.

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Venice

Stayed a few days in Venice, CA. 35mm and digital shots from around this wonderful, warm place.

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The Theme Building/Plane Watching at LAX

As 2020 ended and 2021 began, I was in California. That’s a longer story for another day, though. In the mean time, for the next few posts over the next few weeks, some photographs made around Los Angeles with a quick detour into the desert.

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Phoenix

The end of a trip out west.

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Dec. ‘20 - March ‘21 on Kodak Gold

Being a tourist with a Canon Autoboy II.

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Documenting The West End Stadium

A visual record of FC Cincinnati’s new home. How the venue appeared before its grand opening.

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Orlando

A tour of Orlando's off-beat and off-brand tourist attractions inspired by the 2017 film, The Florida Project. I prefer to sip my alcoholic beverages from hollowed out pineapples.

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The Salton Sea

The 104 degree temperature heightened the smell—salty water and rotting fish with a breeze of wildfire forming a haze over the horizon. Even as we fought off constant swarms of flies and left footprints in the sludge-ridden shore, this was somehow one of the most beautiful places I’d ever been.

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Late in Life Skateboarding and The Legend of Rock-A-Hoola

A story about aging, an abandoned waterpark, and a broken hand.

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A Day When “Nowheres” Prevailed Over the “Usual Somewheres”

Venturing from Vegas through the desert en route to Phoenix with many stops along the way.