Archive for November 12th, 2024
Archives #027
Tuesday

– photo by Mitch Waxman
It’s been a real ‘trip down memory lane,’ the act of pulling these posts out of backup. I’m trying to be somewhat random in what gets linked to, but ultimately it’s calendrical. Some years, this date fell on a weekend, or I was taking a break and doing my ‘single photo post’ dealie. Regardless, trying to mix it up and find some distance between them.
These archive posts are reaching into Newtown Pentacle’s backups, and are pulling posts that went public on this date, in their respective years, going back to 2009. This practice will continue until I’m back on both feet full time, and new photos and stories can be gathered. For anyone who hasn’t heard the news, I broke my left ankle at the end of September.
Apparently, I took one of the last photos of the Old Orchard Shoal Lighthouse on the Great Kills, before it was scoured away by Hurricane Sandy. Check it out in this post from November the 12th in 2012.

– photo by Mitch Waxman
I’m really starting to feel better at this point. The Physical Therapy chapter in the broken ankle story has started. The effects of the series of exercises and stretches, which I do at home as well as in the medical office, have ameliorated a great deal of the swelling and pain.
In 2015, I was just starting to focus in on mastering night time shooting so I headed over to Newtown Creek in the dark to do some workshopping.

– photo by Mitch Waxman
Hoping that I might figure out a spot where I can sort of drive up to and just start taking photos, but that’s kind of putting the cart before the horse. Two weeks ago I was still writhing in agony, after all. One step at a time, albeit a heavily limping step.
The shot above is one of my top three most pirated images. You can order shower curtains with it from a company in China that has never sent me a penny for usage. It’s virtually impossible to stop this sort of thing so I don’t bother. Check out this Chrysler Building oriented post from 2019.
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