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Working Class Hero

July 12, 2020 by Greg Molyneux

100mm low key macro photo of a single honey bee pollinating purple coneflower pistils. A strong single light source creates stark contrast of highlights and shadows. A deep blue monochrome treatment drives a dark, serious mood.

Dutiful honey bee plying her trade. Drinking her nectar and loading her pollen basket, she works with intent. With energy and purpose she minds her craft. Even alone the hive is on the mind. Her community needs her; needs her singular focus to feed and to provide. To sustain the group. Bounding atop pistils by […]

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Tiny Dancer

April 19, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

Yellow daffodil macro photo with soft focus and bokeh.

A daffodil macro photograph capturing the yellow blossom imitating a ballerina’s pirouette. Here we have nature mimicking art, though I suppose it is more correct to note it is art imitating nature.

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Jane Says

April 24, 2018 by Greg Molyneux

Single Jane Magnolia bud photographed in macro at 100mm focal length.

I bought my home from my parents in October 2009. Built in 1993, my parents put in much work to cultivate a lovely yard through the years. Cue up yard work montage footage full of old clothes and dated hairstyle. And yes, I bought the house I grew up in. Under my ownership I have […]

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A Pearl in Winter

January 7, 2018 by Greg Molyneux

Snowy sunset photo of Antoinetta's Restaurant and a frozen bay.

Antoinetta’s Waterfront Restaurant. My old stomping grounds. Undoubtedly one of my favorite locations to photograph. It holds sway as an idyllic bayside vista. She’s a fine structure worked in a modern Victorian motif. This joy of design stands tall at the east end of Cedar Run Dock Road. A seaside beauty for sure. Oh, and […]

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Nothing on the Top

June 23, 2017 by Greg Molyneux

Honeysuckle photo with shallow depth of field and bokeh.

In most any work you attend you’re bound to hit the plateau. Elongated sessions of flat expense flanked by monotony—or worse yet—nothingness. It’s the grind. Lacking the mania and output of the peak, yet devoid the pain and failure of the valley. It’s an uneventful period of low growth. It’s difficult to parse lessons when […]

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It Starts My Mind Flowing

April 9, 2017 by Greg Molyneux

Explosive sunset photo over rushing Atlantic Ocean wash.

The day broke clear. Northwest winds funneling crisp air across the coastal plain. One last battle in the fight between winter and spring. Unseen as it was. Sleeping late as usual the day made off with a quick start. Catch up after a long night redeeming Hyrule. I bounded about from laundry to bill pay, […]

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I Look at the Floor and I See it Needs Sweeping

December 2, 2016 by Greg Molyneux

Cross processed photo of an abandoned shack left to decay.

You’ll find no nature here. Only aged remains of a disued shack left to dereliction. What happens when we’re gone? When all else fades but the ruins of a life gone by? When the fire has gone out and time comes along to reclaim fashioned resources back to dust? Undefeated is time. The second law […]

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Fire on the Horizon

October 12, 2016 by Greg Molyneux

Cross processed golden hour photo of clouds, marsh, and reflective water.

This photograph is raw. Hardly the polished HDR landscape propped up by a firm tripod and bracketed exposures I usually produce. Here things are basic and flawed. As intense golden hour light poured over the Cedar Run Dock Road marsh on Sunday I was having a ball walking around popping off single frame hand shot exposures. It’s […]

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I’ve Been Searching for a Marsh of Gold

August 24, 2016 by Greg Molyneux

Golden hour photo from LBIF marsh featuring crepuscular rays.

Vantage points matter. Not just in photography but in life as well. If we keep looking out at the Candy Land game board of human existence from the same height, the same level, we’re bound to miss out on new perspective and ostensibly new ideas. Our dice roles repeatedly coming up snake eyes and into the […]

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Parklife

May 25, 2016 by Greg Molyneux

Wide angle photograph amid the bushes, plants, and shrubs of Ship Bottom Sunset Point.

Monday night after doing the 9–5 thing I made my way to Ship Bottom Sunset Point. It had been a while since I did some photo things from this Long Beach Island location. It’s a cool little spot nestled bayside, and it holds a tender place in the Greg Molyneux memory bank. For three seasons […]

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Sunset photo ignites over marsh and reflective water.
Black and white photo of acoustic guitar bridge.
Blue hour photo of pink and purple clouds over marshland.
100mm black and white macro photograph of a purple coneflower
Cross processed golden hour photo of clouds, marsh, and reflective water.

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