p s e u d o r e a l

Better Than Real Because It's Not.


Sunday September 04th 2011, 1:13 am
Filed under: General

(Aug 13) A newer (better) camera is for me, an opportunity to re-visit and re-photograph places I’ve been before. I think there’s value in it to see not just the (I hope) improved photographs, but the changes from time.

train: in
First stop, Port Jeff train station. Why? I don’t know.
But it seems fitting the journey would begin in Port Jefferson.

train: out
Which for the Port Jefferson Branch is…

new camera, new aspect ratio
… the end of the line

last wisps of light disappear in the west
These train bridges are one of the few high places out here I have access to

it feels old to me
Most people don’t like the light these lamps make, but I kind of like how it photographs

the platform
I wish I could get up just a little higher. Another floor or two.

exposure a
No Flash mode

exposure b
Program AE mode

tower
It is evening in Port Jefferson


Wednesday February 09th 2011, 11:49 pm
Filed under: General

(December 15) I sleep on the train, he sleeps in the backhoe.

get yer ho back on
There’s some kind of construction going on here.
What is that I see there?…. is it, … could it be…?

zzzzzz...
Sleeping in the backhoe. You think? Your call.

which side of this hole is sunny?
Sunnyside Yards.

train yard
Amtrak soils New York with Jersey Transit’s trains here.

sunny side down
It’s sort of the waiting room. For some reason this makes more sense than sending them back to Jersey. Probably money changes hands.


Saturday September 04th 2010, 1:38 am
Filed under: General

Every now and then, I escape back to the city where I belong.

passed out behind the garbage pail
Instead of being the train home to Brooklyn, now it’s the train to the city.
The number of drunks and bums Father Frank’s homeless shelter attracts to the area seems to have steadily risen over time. Now they’re passed out all over the train station day and night.

the finger
I prefer this city greeting to the drunks sprawled out on the platform in Port Jeff

beacon in the darkness
Hello ESB, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.

or moving vehicles
The city is full of ghosts

not to be confused with 'babes in toyland'
The Endless March of the Yellow Cabs

br0ke sign
It is now safe to walk uphill.


Saturday July 17th 2010, 11:30 am
Filed under: General

(June 12) Needed to go for a walk. It was too late to go grocery shopping, so I went behind the train station this time, and kept going.

non-metered parking
When I was a kid, this was just a dipshit train station. Now it’s the end of the electrified line, and it’s a huge complex.


Friday April 23rd 2010, 6:52 pm
Filed under: General

Things didn’t get any better around here in March. In fact they got much worse.

ahhh...
Apparently the MTA spun the freight off from the LIRR. If this actually achieves anything, it can only be to prove that the MTA is incompetent at running railroads. Ouch.

ahhhh.....

ahhh choo-choo!
And there it goes, the New York & Atlantic.