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The Sea Moves

February 13, 2021 by Greg Molyneux

14mm wide angle landscape photo of blue hour reflected over Little Egg Harbor bay. Blended with intentional horizontal motion blur.

Let’s explore a photography technique that intentionally introduces motion blur into the finished image. Combine steady hands, confident, steady motion and a lazy shutter to produce stunning minimalist photographs. The effect of motion brings a painterly touch to heighten the drama.

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Stop Motion

November 29, 2020 by Greg Molyneux

14mm blue hour photo purposefully out of focus capturing passing clouds and salt marsh with intentional camera side motion blur.

I have a problem. My photography is wholly uninspired and improvement has been long absent and plenty indifferent. For four years now I have set adrift atop the inevitable plateau of your talent’s going no where. No gains, no challenges, no growth. What can I do to fix it? Let’s find out…

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I Was Once

November 1, 2020 by Greg Molyneux

moon rise over Parkertown Cove at Parkertown Docks at blue hour. This was October 2020's second full moon making it a blue moon.

Jonathan Carr and I checked out Parkertown Docks for the first time ever. We hung around through blue hour for the full moon rise. It so happened to be the second full moon of October, making this a blue hour blue moon rise.

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Autumn We Dance Again

September 22, 2020 by Greg Molyneux

14mm wide angle landscape photo made at blue hour. Clear evening blue skies with a subtle pastel horizon reflect over the still water of Stafford Forge Wildlife Management Area.

Whether by fall or by autumn, people love this time of year. I counted myself among their number as a child, but as an adult it has not been so. This has proved a season of struggle. I seek to recapture the magic I once knew. I yearn to dance again with Autumn.

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Stop the Clocks

August 23, 2020 by Greg Molyneux

14mm wide angle photograph of a salt marsh oxbow feature at blue hour. Mirrored reflection captures the still colored pastel clouds stretched thin across the sky.

Time may not be on our side and yet we soldier on and endure. We bide our time, turn to our strengths and cultivate purpose to prepare for the renaissance. Time will come to order again. The arrow of time, never directionless, will reassert its dominion and the universe will unfold as it should.

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Where Goings

July 31, 2020 by Greg Molyneux

14mm wide angle photo made at blue hour over the bright green salt marsh of Cedar Run Dock Road. Low cumulus clouds race across the sky and reflect in a still water pool.

Creative expression comes in many forms. Here, a day removed from my 38th birthday, I share a poem to dance with my photograph. Touching on the themes of time, age, and acceptance as we grapple with inevitability.

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Blue Notes

May 25, 2020 by Greg Molyneux

14mm wide angle landscape photo made low key at blue hour. Soft pastels color up the sky above an oxbow lake feature of the Cedar Run Dock Road salt marsh.

Nature is love. Love is nature. At blue hour the dance of night and day intwine in splendor to show the whole world how passion yearns. A photograph captures this dance, this light play, this teachable moment, and allows us to share in its glory long after the moment itself.

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Gradient

January 24, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

Wide angle blue hour photo over reflective bay water with motion blur.

Blue hour, day glow, motion blur, and striking reflections mark the scene on Little Egg Harbor bay.

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Blue Steps

November 18, 2018 by Greg Molyneux

14mm blue hour photo of boat dock and calm, reflective water.

A serene blue hour settles in over disused docks and reflective, glassy bay water.

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Winter Holds

March 19, 2018 by Greg Molyneux

Blue hour over late winter salt marsh and tide pool.

Things were quiet on the salt marsh tonight. A subtle blue hour affair in our slow march toward spring. While the calendar insists spring starts tomorrow, winter has other ideas. And so here I sit griping about three backloaded winters in a row. Backloaded meaning winters that will—not—end. March 2018 has been active with coastal […]

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Photos from the archives

Sunset photograph of dead calm conditions highlighting vibrant green marsh grass just after sunset.
Square format HDR photograph of marsh grass and lake at blue hour
100mm high key macro photograph of a honey bee feeding and pollinating a purple coneflower blossom.
Sunset photo of layered pastel clouds, wood pilings, and a smooth water reflection
World class sunset over the sandy beaches and jetty rock of Long Beach Island

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