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"P.S. - this is one of the first pictures I took with my (now old) new digital camera."
Neil Martinez
"One full moon in February there was a ring around the moon. I was on my way home from work and stopped to take this picture. There are lots of things I like here, but the technique -- resting the camera on the roof of the car and taking the long exposure shot -- is what I'm particularly proud of."
Neil Martinez
"After storms I would go around and pick up all the debris in this little red wagon."
Neil Martinez
"I'm a big fan of sepia tones and the grey of weathered wood. I especially like to take pictures of things that are very neutral in tone but may have some subtle (or not so subtle) highlights of color. Here is a "still life," a composition of rope, dock, bumper, and piling. Just perfectly arranged like a visual Haiku."
Neil Martinez
"This image is a composite of two images. Using a hand-held camera would occasionally take several shots of the same thing, deliberately under- or over-exposing the images in different shots. I would then open up the multiple images in a graphics program like Xara and set the images at various levels of transparency. It ended up giving me a nice, quasi-HDR effect at times.

I like to deliberately leave the edges uneven."
Neil Martinez
"Another picture taken after the forest fire in Warren Grove. This was taken further down the road off of Route 72. My friend John Anton and I found what looked like an old dump with lots of old ceramics and glass. The fire had burnt off the layers of leaves and left behind these previously hidden treasures."
Neil Martinez
"I happen to know I took this photo in 2005, in a lunch place near where I worked (at the time) in Long Island City, NY. so I am unsure why the photo information says 2008. Perhaps that's when I modified it?"
Neil Martinez
"I wonder what happened to these lights? They were taken down when the local library was doing some refurbishing."
Neil Martinez
"Nope. 2008."
Neil Martinez
"All of these dappled shades of grey, green, and brown. This image was not manipulated aside from (perhaps) cropping and increasing the contrast slightly to pull out the textures. (Taken at America's Keswick in 2006.)"
Neil Martinez
"I think this was on the crosstown shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central Terminal. This guy never changed position but I was pretty certain he was alive. Notice the guy nearest him? Everybody is deliberately ignoring this man. Of course, all I did was notice him and take a picture. (Probably taken in 2005.)"
Neil Martinez
"At America's Keswick there is a shallow lake that drains into another lake. This mechanism apparently can control how much water, or at water level, the upper lake drains into the lower lake.

I love the subtle shades of blue and grey. Of course rust is always good, too."
Neil Martinez
"This was taken in Purchase, NY, at the Pepsi HQ. The sculpture collection is impressive. On this snowy day I was heading back to NYC from Connecticut and stopped to take a walk around and snap some pics. This sculpture drew me in. It looks like the pelvis of a huge animal that was unearthed by...well...an artist."
Neil Martinez
"I took this while in Massachusetts. Some town near where Norman Rockwell's studio is. This toothless garden ornament was doing just that: ornamenting a garden."
Neil Martinez
"It takes the heat of a fire to open up the cones of the Pitch Pines around where I live. Days after a major forest fire these cones were among the most colorful results.

FYI: I did very little to enhance this image. Usual adjustment of contrast but that only brings the image into agreement with what my eyes saw, versus what the camera saw."
Neil Martinez
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