On the Jersey Shore
Here are some photos from my recent visit to New Jersey. I'm quite the sucker for desolate beaches and boardwalks as well as bright, cheesy arcades and found myself taking very cliche photographs of them. I can only imagine what the Jersey-shore photography teachers tell their students not to take photographs of. When I went to grad school in Savannah, I would see every incoming Freshman gravitate toward the landmarks of the city and photograph very stale, straightfoward images of those places, as if the preserve the integrity of the experience. "Oh, wow, it's another picture of the fountain in Forsyth Park, how original!" To those students' credit, it's difficult not to want to photograph a location that is inherently interesting. What happens is that everyone takes the same darn photos of those interesting places so that the photography professors want to tear their eyes out after the first year.
So, in my trip to the Jersey shore, I was that Freshman who couldn't keep my lens away from the exceptional and new that has become commonplace and mundane to the locals due to the level of exposure and over-saturation.
Oh well. Here's a dose of Jersey and Drobny all in one.
The Boardwalk
The Boardwalk, From Another Angle
Boardwalk Casino
My Sister on the Walk
Boardwalk, Meet Drobny Fun
Forest, Giga What?
Boardwalk Stretch
Crazy Legs
Magic Mirror Fun
The Seaside
Win a Wii
I just want to quickly point out how ridiculous this mechanism is. Back in my day, you could win teddy bears and fancy watches in these contraptions. And there was a bit of a better chance to win something, too. One look, and you are pretty certain that there is no way the tin crane/arm is going to pick any object up weighing more than a gram. But, hey, what's a quarter, right? These games wouldn't exist if there wasn't some kind of chance that a Wii would come falling through that tiny slot like manna from heaven.
I did not play this game. I opted for the cascading quarters game. And didn't win a thing.