From our week by the sea…

“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory”
…. Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Today is our last full day in New Jersey.  It’s raining, there’s a tornado warning until noon, and some of the streets are flooding.  And you know what?  I don’t care.  ((I do care that it’s our last day, but I don’t care so much about the rain.)) I am sitting in a quaint coffee [...]

Hi Interwebz!
It’s me.  Jen.  The girl who never updates her blog.  Sorry about that. 
Tommorow I am shooting a wedding, and then it’s off to the Garden State for a week on the beach with my husband and family. 
 
(( Cape May, 2007 ))
I promise I will update more frequently when I return. 
xoxo
- jen

Yesterday, Funnel and I went thrifting.  We hit four stores and at the very last one, Funnel found this amazing, distressed, shabby-chic, orange desk that had just been brought in the day before.  He showed it to me and we talked about how we didn’t have room in our apartment for it, but then we decided [...]

 ”Linda” (my parents’ GPS system):

There were monarch butterflies everywhere in Cape May.  We were lucky enough to be there during the time they were migrating through the area.  Because of our camera problems, I had trouble getting a good photo of them (they move so fast) but this one was dying, so I was able [...]

A few of our photos…

Well.. I can’t remember if it actually stormed,  but one night, mid-week, there was a really onimous sky that made for some fun shots.
 

The marina was a nice bike ride from our house.  Lots of boats, some restaurants, and quite the fishing operation.

We went to the fish market and got some clam chowder for dinner one night.

My dad checking out the selection:

There are two main beaches in Cape May:  Cape May Beach and Sunset Beach.
Cape May Beach is the one that most people go to for laying out, swimming, etc.  (It was warm enough to go swimming our last day there, but I won’t grace you with the photos my dad took of me in my [...]

On one of the afternoons, Funnel and I visited the lighthouse….