Greg Molyneux Photography

Author: Greg Molyneux

  • Heart of Rebellion

    Heart of Rebellion

    100mm 1:1 square format macro photo of two bleeding heart flowers hanging back-to-back.
    Heart of Rebellion — 100mm | f/3.5 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/200

    4 May 2025. May the Fourth. Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you. Etc. Etc. Etc.

    Chat, anyone out there watching Andor season two? Two arcs deep—six episodes in total—and this political thriller keeps me on edge. Unsettling in the best way possible, it’s a welcome, if not uncomfortable, treat to be dropped into the early world of the rebellion olds like me grew up on with a story centered around—and explicitly intended for—olds like me. Andor picks at the raw under belly of the nascent rebellion’s leadership, exploring the insidious loss of humanity that corrodes slow and sure in the darkest corners of dying souls. A cause may be righteous; its effect on its people is not. And yet some fights must be fought—irrespective of the costs.

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 3 May 2025
    • Lighting: Late afternoon
    • Weather: Partly cloudy
    • Location: Ocean Acres, New Jersey
    • Time: ~1835
    • Tripod: No
    • Exposure: One at 1/200

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    Hey ChatGPT

    Riffing on the theme of the day, the thing that was hiding in the bleeding heart’s shape slapped me right in the face. The Rebel Alliance starbird is made to fit tattooed onto this flower. Brain gears begin to churn—let me see what ChatGPT can do. My suggestions proceeded as follows:

    Me: Yo chat, happy Sunday. If I send you a jpg of a bleeding heart can you embed the Star Wars rebellion logo inside the heart-shaped flower?

    ChatGPT: Yo! Happy Sunday to you too. (Smiling sun emoji.) Yeah absolutely — send over the JPG of the bleeding heart flower, and I’ll embed the Star Wars rebellion logo.

    Me: Uploads above photo

    ChatGPT: Shares first image

    Me: Now try it with the logo inverted

    ChatGPT: Second image, which is the same as the first image

    Me: Abandoning the inverted starbird idea: Create the logo in the street art style of Sabine Wren

    ChatGPT: Third image

    Me: Nice job recreating the goated Sabine Wren. Now, can you have the spray paint logo follow the contours of the flower?

    ChatGPT: Final result below

    ChatGPT aided creation. AI added a Sabine Wren inspired Rebel Alliance starbird superimposed on a 100mm macro Greg Molyneux photograph of bleeding heart flowers.
  • Spin Cycle

    Spin Cycle

    14mm salt marsh sunset photo with horizontal motion blur giving a painterly effect.
    Spin Cycle — 14mm | f/8 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/13 sec

    I am overwhelmed. I struggle to keep up. It is hard to keep faith. If I had a towel I would surely throw it in. Signs of a well executed plan. Flood the zone. Drain the brain. Laugh whenever plebeians complain. 

    I am done laughing.I can no longer maintain.

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 23 February 2025
    • Lighting: Sunset
    • Weather: Partly cloudy
    • Location: Cedar Run Dock Road
    • Time: ~1735
    • Tripod: No
    • Exposure: One at 1/13 seconds panned left to right

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  • Hulk On High

    Hulk On High

    A dramatic February sunset pours intense pastel light giving a golden glow to the otherwise brown sedge salt marsh. 14 mm photo merged from seven bracketed exposures.
    Hulk On High — 14mm | f/8 | ISO 100 | 7 Bracketed Exposures

    You are stronger than you might think you are.

    —Hulk

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 23 February 2025
    • Lighting: Sunset
    • Weather: Partly cloudy
    • Location: Cedar Run Dock Road
    • Time: ~1740
    • Tripod: Yes
    • Exposures: Seven merged to HDR
  • No Focus

    No Focus

    Soothing pastel colors pop up at a bayside sunset. Photographed at 35mm with motion blur created by intentional handheld left to right movement.
    No Focus — 35mm | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/15 sec

    Place pastels upon your palette and cue the music the sunset show is begun. Grab a big old dry brush and move your paints across your canvas with speed. Be confident in your motion; haste, but don’t waste. It’s your heart and mind funneling down the arm and into your hand summoning magic unto the page. You are an artist, and you’re doing great.

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 18 January 2025
    • Lighting: Sunset
    • Weather: Partly cloudy
    • Location: Cedar Run Dock Road
    • Time: ~1650
    • Tripod: No
    • Exposures: One @ 1/15 seconds

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  • For You

    For You

    Bright pastel winter sunset over Cedar Run Dock Road salt marsh. Photographed at 14mm with seven bracketed exposures merged for HDR.
    For You — 14mm | F/8 | ISO 100 | 7 Bracketed Exposures

    My evening gift for you all to chase away the Sunday scaries—a Dock Road sunset from just over a week ago. A high quality winter burn. Enough of the deck painted up in pastel hues to really crank up the glow highlighting the sedge. For but five minutes time suspends as though weightless and the dormant brown super charges in a pink infusion. As if Goku himself were powering up. Palpable vibes. 

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 26 January 2025
    • Lighting: Sunset
    • Weather: Overcast
    • Location: Cedar Run Dock Road
    • Time: ~1700
    • Tripod: Yes
    • Exposures: Seven

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  • Fractured

    Fractured

    Two inch thick ice sheets fold, collide, and crack creating fractal patterns floating atop Great Bay. Photographed at 35mm and processed in monochrome sepia.
    Fractured — 35mm | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/20

    Like the good keyboard warrior I have tried not to be, I came to the came to the computer tonight ready to pop off on our accelerating societal decline. Then I remembered I am a photographer, not a writer, and this photograph reflects the sad state of affairs far better than my forced words. 

    All day disqueit asking what can I do? I have little clue, but I am grown disgusted the cowards stance I’ve limply taken that’s long been thinly covered in silence. A passivity that can be seen as at best, aloof and neutral, but at worst complicit. What I will do is pledge further introspection into my own blindspots, weaknesses, limitations, and fear to speak out on the things I find righteously wrong. This self-improvement is solely in my control. I can also lend my photographs and my words to advocate for love, respect, and the personal dignity of all people and do my best to model that behavior. Lead from the front otherwise get out of the way.

    And now if you’ll excuse me I will be busy regrowing my spine. Thanks for reading, and go give somebody a hug and ask yourself, what can I do? Let’s lift each other up. Let’s be better together.

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  • Back?

    Back?

    Ice chunks scatter the surface of a frozen bay with derelict dock posts photographed at 35mm.
    Back? — 35mm | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/30

    The ice returns and is that some inspo sliding in on it? Ever since I was a kid winter has owned my curiosity. Forever my favorite weather, the cold and snow continue to demand my attention. It’s like the first time, every time.

    So it should come as no surprise that when the salt marsh turns frozen the urge to get outside explodes. To my camera and the marsh I go. Only this time a proper stop further.

    For the first time since December 2020 (five years!) I am publishing a photo from Great Bay Boulevard. Once part of a steady rotation it’s been a casualty of a stalled hobby. For the first time in years, thoughts of making photos land upon my brain. It’s happening several times per week, easy, and usually in the shower. Where once there was desert, there are no motes of water, frozen as it may be. As for GBB, it was awesome to be back, and I am starting to feel I may be back.

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  • Dockside

    Dockside

    35mm sunset photograph of aged dockside pilings and a thick old faded yellow rope.
    Dockside — 35mm | f/2 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/60

    It’s been a long cold winter. It’s January 20. Here’s a fireside:

    • 2025? How?
    • I miss photographs
    • I miss writing
    • More so I miss sharing both with you all
    • Elden Ring consumes all—but mostly me
    • The Dodgers are building a juggernaut
    • I worry for our world
    • I am grateful for new teammates
    • There’s something about big old timeworn ropes and the stories they tell

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  • Best Photographs of 2024

    Best Photographs of 2024

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