Random Photographs | June - December 2023
My biggest takeaway from this year is that now, more than ever, I am of the sound belief that everything I’ll ever need to know in life was learned while working at an amusement park and from having watched professional wrestling as kid. There’s too many examples to list as corroborating evidence for this theory, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
Typically, I find New Year sentiments to be about as sincere as anything posted on LinkedIN. However, at this moment today: I hope you find as much peace in this holiday season as I once found while laying in the grass of San Francisco’s Alamo Square Park, staring at the houses from the opening credit sequence of the television show, Full House.
Thank you—truly—for reading, following, and viewing my work all these years. There’s more to come in 2024 following today’s edition of “random photographs that didn’t necessarily have a place in a larger story or post.”
Had the privilege of documenting Annie & Justin’s Rehearsal Dinner and then celebrating their wedding (a.k.a. drinking a lot of gin and then taking some of their guests to Dixie Chili + Waffle House).
Over-The-Rhine, Cincinnati
Dog beds don’t matter when you hog the human one.
Cincinnati
Got to meet artist LAmour Supreme and document the Czarface mural he was putting up.
Downtown, Cincinnati.
Heard a rumor at Uncle Leo’s once that if you go to krazy straws dot com (yes, with a “K”), that the character limit is 10 and they don’t care what you ask them to spell out.
Over-The-Rhine, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati
In Grimace we trust.
An elevated plane of existence
Thank you, Amanda, for my favorite household decoration..
Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati skyline obscured by haze drifting in from the year’s Canadian Wildfires.
Newport, Kentucky
Who needs Seven Magic Mountains when your city has a single, perfect one?
Camp Washington, Cincinnati
Egypt.
Cincinnati
I shot a story in rural Kentucky over the summer with some friends. It’s one that I’m incredibly excited to share and one which will hopefully be ready in early 2024. Finding a busted open Faygo vending machine while visiting the subject was just the icing on a “RedPop” flavored cake.
Somewhere, Kentucky
Downtown, Cincinnati
Reading, Ohio
Dominoes > Bocce > Skee Ball.
Over-The-Rhine, Cincinnati
Don’t care what Lammi says, I love this shot.
Downtown, Cincinnati
An afternoon spent with the bike along Cincinnati’s industrial, Ohio River coast.
Hamilton County Courthouse.
Downtown, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati
Clifton Heights, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati
West End, Cincinnati
Fairfield, Ohio
Fairfield, Ohio
Downtown, Cincinnati
Camp Washington, Cincinnati
Camp Washington, Cincinnati
Celebrating FC Cincinnati, the 2023 Supporter’s Shield Winners:
Egypt reenacting the conclusion of FC Cincinnati’s season.
Downtown, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati.
Pendleton, Cincinnati.
Riverfront, Cincinnati.
The end of Fall in Cincinnati’s Pendleton neighborhood:
Downtown, Cincinnati
Lammi dreaming of the time we went to the Super Bowl.
Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati
Camp Washington, Cincinnati
Camp Washington, Cincinnati
The business model of local tv news is creating stories that scare folks over 60.
Camp Washington, Cincinnati
Shot some promotional photos for The Last Scouts, a new musical project featuring my talented friend and fellow photographer, Travis Estell, on drums:
Found while stumbling home one night.
Downtown, Cincinnati
Hamilton County Courthouse.
Downtown, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati
Cincinnati’s majestic, historic, and beautiful Union Terminal is also known as “The Hippodrome” in the majestic, historic, and beautiful 1995 film Batman Forever. All of this was once commemorated in majestic, historic, and beautiful souvenir glasses sold at McDonald’s.
Gotham City
Downtown, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati
Downtown, Cincinnati
Back with more in the new year.
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