Greg Molyneux Photography

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Sunset photography

  • Burning Heart

    Burning Heart

    35mm 3:2 motion blur sunset photo executed with the left to right panning to create the horizontal motion blur flowing across the frame.
    Burning Heart — 35mm | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/25

    It took a cool minute but Ocean County summer open and ready for business. And you know what? So am I. It’s a hazy, hot, and humid Sunday in the six-oh-nine, and I am glad I got my run and walk in early. It’s been a lounge around kind of afternoon vibing to the beat of rain drops on the windows and Stick Figure on the aux. Sure there’s yard work to be done, but there is also the perils of heat stroke to consider . . .

    Anyway, I digress. Here’s a motion blur photograph I captured on 10 June, executed with the usual left to right panning motion to create the horizontal motion blur flowing across the frame. A coal fired sunset, a burning heart, and the power to change the world. A muse unmatched—within and without. Thankful and blessed does not even begin to tell this story.

    Photo details

    • Photographed: 10 June 2025
    • Lighting: Sunet
    • Weather: Partly cloudy
    • Location: Cedar Run, New Jersey
    • Time: ~2030
    • Tripod: No
    • Exposure: One at 1/25 of a second panning left to right

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Warm Fuzzy

    Warm Fuzzy

    35mm sunset photo taken at Cedar Run Dock Road salt marsh. South facing exposure panning left to right creates smooth motion blur across the image.
    Warm Fuzzy — 35mm | f/5.6 | ISO 100 | EXP 1/50

    Hobby more.

    Connect more.

    Live.

    Grow.

    Hope.

    Strive.

    Exercise and breathe.

    Eat the good food. Laugh. Dream again. Be better for all of us.

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  • On the Fringe

    On the Fringe

    14mm HDR photo of a sunset over Cedar Run Dock Road's salt marsh. Tropical Storm Ophelia spun overrunning cirrus clouds as the storm's outer bands approached the mid-Atlantic coast.
    On the Fringe — 14mm | f/8 | ISO 100 | 7 Bracketed Exposures

    Socked in on a Saturday. 23 September 2023 at 3:30 p.m. EDT, Tropical Storm Ophelia dumps heavy rains across the mid-Atlantic buffeting southern Ocean County, NJ, with steady winds. I’m hoping my LBI friends are managing the storm surge. As for me, I sit comfortably at my large oaken desk watching this week’s Nintendo Voice Chat on YouTube while typing to you, Internet friends.

    This here sunset photo looks back to Thursday when the outer fringes of Ophelia first spun up high level cirrus clouds over the region. This high cloud deck brought a fine end of day light show over Cedar Run Dock Road’s salt marsh. A fiery of sign of the weather to come. Of course, Friday’s burn managed to one up this but I wasn’t out to capture it. I was busy scarfing down hibachi for those looking for the but why no picture, Greg? rationale.

    I hope you’re all weathering out the storm in the safety of home, surrounded by friends and family. It’s the perfect kind of day to kick back under covers to watch The Lord of the Rings. I also recommend having some soup, stew, or braise going. Tis the season, y’all. Be safe, and be well.

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