JerseyStyle Photography

08/11/2024

I've been blogging about my journey since 2008. Here's the latest one! If you want to read all about my vacation in the , click the link in my bio. Me and my boys had a great time (my daughter wasn't with us but off having a Midwest adventure of her own).

Also at the link, good stuff form Joe McNally Photography as he continues blogging about Olympian's; an interesting interview with ALBERT WATSON via Vogue Scandinavia; speaking of travel, Miranda Foster talks about capturing memorable moments on the road; and a cool piece, via The Daily Heller, on Saul Steinberg's assistant, (and, yes, I did just type Halen first).

Also, of course, what I'm reading this week and what I watched (more specifically, what I DIDN'T watch); the favorite lines I read this week (via Patti LuPone in Vanity Fair); and the favorite photo I saw (via Chimes at Midnight); and what I'm listening to (a lot of Imelda May)

Contrary to popular belief, summer's NOT over yet, even if vacation is.

  This week…A Poconos Vacation 2024 recap… Back in December 2022, my cousin’s daughter had her wedding reception on a chilly afternoon at place called Catalpa Grove at Lakewood Park. Despite t…

08/04/2024

New Blog post.

      But I can see us lost in the memoryAugust slipped away into a moment in time’Cause it was never mine ~ Taylor Swift, August Here are are, into August already. The back th…

02/22/2024

Lasts VWIR.

  Kinda of a blah week. Valentines Day week, you know. Not that I really get it all that, but it does get you contemplative over missed connections and all that. But, on the flip side, I was i…

08/25/2023

New Blog Post!

Born To Run: Still Great At 48

“𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵-𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳, 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴….” ~ Backstreets Today is the 48th anniversary of the release of Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run album. S...

08/15/2023

New Blog Post... Plus...a free short story that I wrote MAAAANNNY years ago

  Heading into the Monmouth County Fair, you think you’d smell the fried Oreos first. But you don’t. On that hazy, humid evening in late July, you smell the hay first, and the anim…

08/12/2023

Blog post: Massachussetts In Color

“Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.” – Jay Maisel Back in New Jersey. Dr…

08/07/2023

New JSP Visual Week In Review post now up!

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Programming now: I'll be closing this FB page at the end of August. I don't post here much, it's not really what I use FB for.

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  Short one this week. Vacation week re-entry time Just getting back form some time in Massachusetts. This week, me and my boys – my daughter was finishing up a two-week summer program a…

07/21/2023

A new Murmur.

  Your blood was mixed with wine and robbery Old haunts are for forgotten ghosts Memories are sinking ships that would never be saved (Old Haunts, The Gaslight Anthem) Murmur.   © Mark V…

07/16/2023

Latest JSP Visual Week In Review now up on the blog. I write about being overwhelmed...and entitled. Plus, good stuff from NPR, Scott Strazzante, Andre D'Apice, and Ryan Holiday. Also, what I read, watched and listened to this week.

  Last week I wrote about being overwhelmed. In looking back, that’s very entitled. I’m feeling overwhelmed due to my own doing. I’m fortunate to get all the information I ta…

06/28/2023

New Blog Post...and a library drop off...

  A book about a cartoonist. How interesting could that be? Pretty damn interesting! Everyone probably has some familiarity with The Addams Family, right? Charles Addams, born in Westfield, N…

06/27/2023

New Blog Post!

I got my first by-line when I was 17 years old, a stringer for the Citizens’-Voice newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Seeing my name at the top of an article is still a thrill, same as seeing my …

06/24/2023

Berg's, West Belmar, NJ

06/18/2023

“𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮.” ~ Cormac McCarthy

New JSP Visual Week In Review is up on the blog. This week, reflecting on it being mid-June already, and how summer (officially) is ready to start. Always a great time of year for me, filled with possibility.

Click the link in my bio to read more (and see a photo of me circa 1979) and for good musical stuff from Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit; good creative stuff from LEGO and Ansel Adams; A look at how Ihoworth captured a faded Britain; via GQ, what it was like for Casual Luke to catch the big wave on his break; from Eater, why NJ is the diner capital of the world (well, duh!), and the best line I read this week, via a Gary Kamiya essay.

Happy Father's Day's if you're celebrating. I'll be spending it with my kids and dogs.😊

  We’re at mid-June already. School finishes up this week for my kids. Crazy how fast it seemed to go. My boys’ Spring baseball campaign is over. On to “The Second Season & #8…

06/16/2023

New Blog Post: Let's help out Jesse Malin!

A new generation and the whole word’s shakin’…” Don’t Let Them Take You Down, Jesse Malin I read some unsettling news earlier this week about a musician I really like,…

06/14/2023

New Blog Post! Musician Emily Wolfe on stage.

  I don’t know anything about guitars. Except that I often take photos of people playing guitars. I do know that guitars are beautiful instruments with fantastic lines that make great so…

06/11/2023

New Blog Post: JSP Visual Week In Review - It's a smoky one!

“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.” ~ Robert Bresson. I love this quote.

Click the link to read about what a strange week it was. Plus, good stuff from Print Magazine, HistoryDefined, Raptitude...plus, books I've been reading, movies I've been watching and a new singer (well, new to me) that I've been listening too, Samara Joy.

Go forth and see this week!

  Smoke was on the water…and in the air. A crazy week here in New Jersey. Smoke from Canadian wildfires inundated the East Coast, causing unsafe air quality measurements, and unsafe soci…

06/10/2023

Latest Blog Post

  Often, around this time of year, I put together a Summer Reading List post. But…I can’t do one this year. Because I don’t have a set list. Because my reading is all over th…

06/04/2023

“Follow your inner moonlight: Don’t hide the madness…” ~ Allen Ginsberg

Latest Visual Week In Review! Click the link below.

  So…I’m shooting a lot. Really I am. Especially recently. But, I’m not shooting anything I feel is good enough to take up your time by sharing here. If you’ve been fol…

05/30/2023

On Pete Turner's birthday...

Featuring a selection of Pete Turner’s most iconic photographic images from the 1950s to the late 1990s, The Color of Light will display many of the artist’s most celebrated works with images depicting classic Americana, other-worldly landscapes, and hypersurreal abstractions.

05/29/2023

“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” ~ Henry James

JSP Visual Week In Review ~ 05.27.23 I shot 4 different things this week. I got paid in experience. I'm ok with that.

Also on the blog...a SmartLess interview with Paul Anka; Lindsay Adler Fashion Photography on strobes versus constant lighting; artist Jeffery Saddoris on being consistent; Two pieces about mental well-being - one from Rainn Wilson and Chase Jarvis; and one from Grant over a the UNofPhoto. Also, a favorite photo I saw this week (from Atlanta Braves photographer Kevin Diles) and what gave me inspo this week.

Click the link in my bio and read on!

I shot four different this this week… 1) A ribbon-cutting ceremony 2) A corporate panel discussion about mental health 3) A youth baseball game 4) A rock ‘n roll concert I didn’t …

04/01/2023

New Blog Post: Notes On A Photo

  I’ve never done a post like this before, but thought I’d do so with this one. This past week, the band Papa Roach was named Rock Artist of the Year at the iHeartRadio Awards. Rea…

03/28/2023

JSP Visual Week In Review ~ 03.25.23

"𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬." ~ Edward Weston

This week, I'm thinking - ok, railing against - all the "storytellers" out here now. Like "social media guru" and "content creator," it's become a water-down phrase that doesn't express anything anymore, in most cases.

Yes, maybe I'm shaking my fists at the clouds. But, there you have it.

Click the link in my bio to read more. And also find good stuff from the SmartLesspodcast + Jon Favreau; the book I'm reading from Ken Burns; a great essay from Yunghi Kim Photojournalist; a profile of street photographer Jean Andre Antoine; why they feel they need to redo 's iconic NYC logo; a good read from CrimeReadsabout 1973, and RIP to . A few other nuggets, too, including a link to a Weston documentary posted by Marc Silber

  I’ve been thinking about storytelling and photography in storytelling. I’ve been thinking about creatives who call themselves a “Storyteller” in their social profiles…

03/25/2023

Here's what I'm currently reading. Check it out.

What I’m reading this week… Our America: A Photographic History by Ken Burns My first memory – it’s just a fleeting mental movie clip that still has a kind of fragile clarit…

03/24/2023

The NFG review is over on Asbury Park Vibes. This is more about the gear I used at this concert.

I hopes it's more interesting than it sounds......

I had a busy Friday/Saturday last weekend, and you, dear friends will be hearing all about it over the coming days. It’s started with a drive to Red Bank, New Jersey, to cover the New Found G…

03/24/2023

My photos and review of New Found Glory at the Count Basie Theater over on Asbury Park Vibes

https://www.asburyparkvibes.com/CONCERT-REVIEWS/LIVE-MUSIC-2023/NEW-FOUND-GLORY-TURNS-BACK-TIME-AT-COUNT-BASIE?fbclid=IwAR3B209FlbfrxEnioo2EvjxfKzVbaBjHK-QOaQ2s210chWNhd-BOeHfzgN8

The other weekend, we moved our clocks forward an hour. But if you were at the Count Basie Theater on Friday, March17, you went back in time.

03/02/2023

New Blog Post: Shoot It. Post It. You Never Know

You never know who you will touch with your work. Read more.

Seven years ago…wow has it been that long… we took a family trip to Boone, North Carolina. It was a great trip with the kids, and it was memorable for more than one reason. On the way t…

02/26/2023

JSP Visual Week In Review ~ 02.25.23

Thinking about productivity hacks and some that work for me.

"Create before you consume" ~ Chase Jarvis

Also, what I read and watched and listened to this week. Plus links to good stuff from Chase Jarvis (read his thoughts on the quote above); Behind The Shot and Pete Souza; an interesting read from Tim Harford/ that involves a...Segway; a cool watch with JAY-Z and Rick Rubin working on 99 Problems; and practicing gratitude with Darius Foroux.

Link the link for all this and more!

This week, I’m thinking about getting stricter with myself about certain things. My work life. My personal life. My workouts. My creativity and production. I’ve been doing these pages i…

02/25/2023

Great watch!

Jay-Z, Rick Rubin recording "99 Problems"

02/16/2023

New Blog Post! A new addition to my personal project, Murmurs.

  “At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, but neither arrest nor movement. And do not cal…

02/08/2023

New Blog Post!

A walk from Penn Station, Fuji XT3 in hand. A push to get to the 11:30 a.m. meeting in SoHo. NYC, not London A quick walk. Head on a swivel. Finding a moment. It’s NYC, lots to see. A quiet m…