October 6, 2020 - Northside Yacht Club in Cincinnati keeps folks smiling & fed with specials like bringing Nihlist Arby’s tweet to life, “Drain the blood, cure and slice the flesh, season and fry the potatoes, feed them the sugar water. Be born. Toil. Die. Arby’s. We sell food.”

Arby's hat logo but the words say Nothing on signs outside an establishment called Northside Yacht Club - Sony RX100

October 5, 2008 - Miss Oktoberfest and runners up wave from their float in the Minster Ohio Oktoberfest parade.

Ladies in German Dutch garb ride a float with a windmill pulled by a man driving small vehicle decorated as a wooden shoe - Canon 20D

October 4, 2013 - Jason Snell gets the crowd pumped up with Ohio Knife before a talk from Aaron James Draplin during Cincinnati Design Week at Rhinegeist Brewery.

A crowd of folks with fists and beer in the air while Ohio Knife plays rock music at a brewery for a design conference with Aaron James Draplin speaking - Olympus E-M5

October 3, 2006 - Website navigation made with masking tape, manilla envelopes, a tiny Post-It® and a stamp that says Wire & Twine

Navigation design for a website made with manilla envelopes, a tiny Post-It® and a stamp that says Wire & Twine - Canon 20D

October 2, 2015 - Getting my haircut at Tiny Tina’s in Ludlow, Kentucky. I asked to take a photo on her birthday and she insisted I was in it.

Me in a barber chair taking a selfie with my barber Tiny Tina who was celebrating her birthday - Sony RX100

October 1, 2022 - Sometimes the outtakes really sum things up.

The groomsmen exit their wedding while the party looks on, smiles all around - Leica Q

September 30, 2017 - Walking in Northside with a camera strapped around my shoulder & these gentlemen asked if I was a photographer. “I just take photos for fun” then they asked for a portrait. I was happy to oblige. (If anyone knows them, holler! I emailed it back then but it bounced back!)

Three gentlemen sit at an outdoor bar with snifters of beer - Leica Q

September 29, 2016 - This juxtaposition of tree and El Camino makes me think of a moment in the movie Harold and Maude when Maude decides to rescue a tree from the city.

Orange El Camino parked next to a tree - Leica Q

September 28, 2019 - 80’s Prom fundraiser up at McGuffey Montessori in Oxford.

Me and Casey dressed up in 80's outfits for a fundraiser - iPhone 11

September 27, 2006 - The second year of ’So You Think You Can Dance‘ was so good they put the show on the road with the top 10 dancers. Caught ’em at the Aronoff Center and it was fabulous (and they let me take a Canon 20D in… times were different then!)

SYTYCD performs Thriller live on stage - Canon 20D

September 26, 2013 - Painting a mural outside Junker’s Tavern in Northside

A person starts a mural on the outside of a bar - Sony Cybershot

September 25, 2016 - Ben Jason Neal, Melissa Mitchell and Janet Creekmore turned a vintage trailer into a traveling art gallery.

Three folks stand by a travel camper turned into art gallery - Leica QArt inside the gallery

September 24, 2016 - Added my Polaroid selfie to the wall at Candyland Recording Studio in Dayton, Kentucky. I’m also still with her.

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September 23, 2016 - Filming in Over the Rhine with Taylor Dorrell for People’s Liberty

Reflection of person filming with digital camera in window of Dodge Diplomat - Leica Q

September 22, 2005 - Cincinnati, Ohio - The National perform live in the WOXY lounge

Devendorf, Dessner, Berninger of the National perform in the WOXY lounge in Cincinnati - Canon 20D

September 21, 2015 - Pulled out this Maxell cassette to use for an Open G Records concert poster. (I used a pencil to save the tape.)

Maxell tape pulled from the cassette and formed into a treble clef - Olympus E-M5The poster for A modern Classical Mixtape

September 20, 2021 - A collection of buckeyes my brother was drying out on the dining room table — so much luck in store! (New to me: Native Americans named these seeds for their resemblance to the eyes of male deer, known as bucks.)

Buckeye seeds drying on a black and white table runner with diamond design - Leica Q

September 19, 2010 - Luang Prabang, Laos - Monks move through the streets at dawn in saffron robes with collection bowls to collect morning alms from local Buddhists (usually sticky rice). Known as Tak Bat (or Sai Bat), the ceremony is conducted in total silence as a form of meditation.

Monks walk through the streets of Luang Prabang in saffron robes with bowls for rice as a morning meditation - Canon 5D Mark II

September 18, 2008 - iPods Nano window display, San Francisco

iPods Nano window display, San Francisco - Canon PowerShot SD750

September 17, 2008 - Sierra Classic badge on a GMC Jimmy

Nice thick staggered serif badge reading Sierra Classic on the tail end of a GMC Truck in gold - Canon PowerShot SD750

September 16, 2019 - We celebrated Chris Pratt’s birthday (not that one) inside Cape Peninsula National Park South Africa, taking a hike around the coast before settling in with wine and canapés at the guesthouse.

Bearded man on the southern coast in South Africa - Sony RX-100Bearded man along the souther coast of South Afrida - Sony RX100

September 15, 2012 - Tom holds the fort down at our t-shirt booth at the City Flea in OTR.

Tom stands behind the display of t-shirts at the Wire & Twine booth - Canon 5D Mark II

September 14, 2015 - PDX carpet

The Portland airport still had a tiny section with the old carpet. I padded my travel time to find it. - Sony RX100

September 13, 2015 - It’s the last day of my first XOXO fest, Amit Gupta gave an incredibly moving talk about facing the end and finding a foothold for the future. It culminated themes of the festival and shifted the course of my life. The rest of the story

Amit Gupta at XOXO Festival in 2015

September 12, 2013 - This photo of bike riders in Northside is technically not great — it’s grainy with bad focus and not framed well. It was shot on an iPhone 4 and I totally dig it — without a hint of overprocessing or HDR.

Two folks ride tall bikes in Northside - iPhone 4