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*SWIPE* The cold is settling in here in Pittsburgh… missing the beach a little extra this week. Tbt to our encounter with Hurricane Erin in Topsail, NC.

Looking back at these, it’s clear that the mood and energy shifted before and after the storm. One day was soft and warm, the next felt cool and heavy… The photos didn’t flow together in one batch in my opinion, so I split them into separate acts to show the change instead of trying to force them into the same set.

Thank you for looking! :)

Happy Halloween! 🎃

If you haven’t seen ‘Midsommar’ yet, I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys unsettling movies! We took some inspiration from it for this shoot. Watching the movie feels like a fever dream and reading through theories about the movie after watching can take you down some rabbit holes.

I hope everyone has a safe Halloween and weekend. Thank you for looking! 👻🎃🎃

Aurora Borealis from my backyard. It was barely visible to the naked eye, but my camera was able to pick it up.

I went down a rabbit hole after taking these pictures. Cameras can pick up the aurora borealis better than eyes because of how they capture light. Our eyes rely on rods and cones… rods help us see in low light but don’t perceive color well. Cones see color but need more light. Cameras see differently than the human eye. They can use long exposures, which means they collect light over a period of time.. this allows the camera sensor to gather more light which illuminates more color. I thought that was pretty cool. I added contrast to what I downloaded from my camera and those are the photos seen above.

Thank you for looking!! I have some fall festival pictures to post from Mars Applefest and Oktoberfest, so keep your eyes out for those. :)