30 October 2010
29 October 2010

28 October 2010

For our new picture of the day, we go inside the walls of South Brooklyn Community High School. This is James Perez, who is a minor celebrity in the world of New York inline skating. He's a really good guy. I've been his advocate counselor for more than two years. He only has a few more classes to pass to graduate and he and I both know he's going to do that this year. Click here to seem him skating.
The Prints Have Been Requested- thank you everyone.
PRINT GIVEAWAY



The Prints Have Been Requested- thank you everyone.
Today I am giving away two pairs of prints of Here in Red Hook photographs. They are signed archival inkjet prints on heavyweight matte photo paper; each is approximately 8"x 8". If you'd like to own one of these pairs of prints, please send me an email with your name, mailing address, and which pair is your first choice. We'll call the top the "red pair" and the bottom the "blue pair." The first two people to email me will get the photographs. Send email to avernonjones@gmail.com.
27 October 2010
26 October 2010
Last night I couldn't sleep and was reading Nueva Luz photo journal. I got really into the work of photographer Jane Tam. This morning I looked at her blog and saw that she had done a print giveaway, which seemed like a nice idea. So before the week is out I'll be giving away a print of one of my photographs to a reader (viewer) of Here in Red Hook. Check back often if you'd like to be the one to get it.

When I was photographing scaffolding last week this girl walked by with her grandmother and was curious about what I was doing peering down into the ground glass of my Hasselblad viewfinder. She was happy to pose for a portrait, but her grandmother was camera shy.
25 October 2010


I took the second picture on October 12, the morning after hail the size of large marbles fell in Red Hook. During the storm I was lucky enough to be inside, but the assault of ice was a reminder of how vulnerable we are to nature, especially as our climate changes. The hail had knocked about half of the leaves off of all the trees in the neighborhood, and they carpeted the sidewalks like some kind of harvest.
24 October 2010
23 October 2010
8 days left.

These are mostly about shape and color. But I'm also wondering what the heck that scaffolding could be for; it doesn't seem close enough to the buildings to have any use. The second picture is of the little pebbly beach in the park at the end of Coffey Street, where many bits of colorful junk have washed ashore.


22 October 2010
21 October 2010

(Yesterday I dropped off five rolls of film to be developed and scanned, so by tomorrow I should have some new recent pictures to show.)
20 October 2010
As I get ready to move, I know the proximity the the water is one of the things I'll miss most, hence my posting another picture of fishing and the piers. In the foreground is my old friend Elijah Miller. Elijah is a songwriter who works at B61, a bar on Red Hook's northern border with Carroll Gardens. In the background, that faint point on the horizon is the Statue of Liberty.
Labels:
black and white,
men,
olympus 35mm,
portraits,
waterfront
18 October 2010
12 more days of new posts to Here in Red Hook. Enjoy this one:

I absolutely love the waterfront in Red Hook. And I love talking to guys (and once in a while gals) fishing out on the piers. But I wouldn't eat the fish they catch – straight out of Upper New York Bay. I guess that's what this picture is about.
17 October 2010
Today I start the countdown to the end of Here in Red Hook. In exactly two weeks I will move to an apartment about a mile from where I live now, outside of the borders of the neighborhood I love. I'll still be working in Red Hook, but have decided to end this project while I'm really still Here in Red Hook. For the next 14 days I plan to post a new image at least once a day, and on October 31 I will post my last post.

It's been so rare that I've photographed any male-female pairs in Red Hook, and I think that's too bad, because couples are great. I met these two young people one afternoon when I was out shooting with the photography class that I co-teach at SBCHS. I learned their names, but didn't write them down, and have now forgotten. The white, orange and black grocery bag tells me that they'd bought their snacks at Fairway. I love that detail because I don't think I've ever seen any teenagers from the neighborhood shopping in there. (Fairway is a gourmet grocery store on the waterfront in Red Hook).
04 October 2010

This particular stretch of Henry Street gets referred to as "Puerto Rico Block", but a young woman I know who lives there finds the name somewhat offensive, so we won't call it that.
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